Meng Jiang girl cried the Great Wall

When the Qin Dynasty was just established, Qin Shi Huang repaired the imperial palace and fought in all directions, making the common people unable to live in peace, and the people did not want to have a son themselves, because when the son grew up, he would be arrested to become a strong man.

At the foot of Lishan Mountain, there is a family surnamed Meng, Meng Gong and Meng Po are very old but have no son and a half daughter, and the husband and wife are often worried about this matter, and constantly pray to the heavens, hoping to get a child. This year, the Meng family planted a piece of gourd vine, in the autumn, only one gourd, the couple was feeling depressed, suddenly heard a noise in the gourd, cut it open to see, there was a white and pure girl inside. The couple was overjoyed, believing that this was a child given to them by God, so they named them Meng JiangNu.

Meng Jiangnu has been very sensible and clever since she was a child, and the people in the village like her very much.

In the blink of an eye, Meng Jiang's daughter became a big girl, beautiful and generous, and the boys in the village all admired her. However, Meng Jiangnu already had a heart, so she was indifferent to the confessions of the boys.

Meng Jiang's daughter secretly agreed that the neighbor's young man Fan Xiliang, Fan Xiliang is a very industrious young man, the two of them are green plum bamboo horses, two small guesses. The parents of the two families also intended to let the two marry, so they set a good day.

On the day of the wedding, Meng Jiang nu was wearing a red wedding dress, which was even more impressive, and the groom Fan Xiliang was also particularly spirited, the two had just worshiped heaven and earth, and suddenly several soldiers broke in from outside the door and kidnapped Fan Xiliang. It turned out that Qin Shi Huang wanted to build the Great Wall and was recruiting people's husbands, as long as they were young men, whether they were married or not, whether they had parents or children, they were all arrested.

Poor Meng Jiang woman, just married, can not see her husband, she at home day and night, hoping that her husband will one day be able to come back, but left and right, never see her husband come back. In this way, a year later, she still had no news of her husband. She couldn't wait any longer and decided to leave for her husband. After bidding farewell to the old people of the two families, Meng Jiangnu embarked on a journey to find a husband.

She inquired all the way about the construction site of the Great Wall, waded through the mountains and waters, endured hunger, and finally reached the foot of the Great Wall. She asked her husbands for news, but got a thunderbolt of news on a sunny day, and her husband Fan Xiliang had died of exhaustion a year ago. When she heard this, she could no longer hold back the grief in her heart, and fell to her knees on the Great Wall and wept. She cried so sadly, so desperately weeping on the Great Wall. She cried so sadly, so desperately, so deeply that with this cry, the newly repaired Great Wall collapsed piece by piece. This upset the overseer, who hurriedly reported the matter to Qin Shi Huang.

Qin Shi Huang heard that a woman was making trouble, and rushed to the scene, just about to dispose of Meng Jiangnu, but was attracted by her beauty. As soon as the words turned, he asked Meng Jiang to be his concubine. Meng Jiang Nu knew that she could not resist, so she calculated the plan and pretended to agree. She put forward three conditions to Qin Shi Huang: first, she wanted to find the bones of her husband Fan Xiliang; second, she wanted to hold a funeral for her husband with the ceremony of state funeral and bury him on the seashore; third, she would wear a linen and filial piety for her husband during the funeral. Qin Shi Huang was bent on getting her, and all agreed to come down.

After many searches, Fan Xiliang's bones were finally found, placed in a beautiful coffin, and then buried on the seashore. Meng Jiang's daughter, dressed in Ma Dai Xiao, came to her husband's grave to pay homage, and she said indignantly: "Qin Shi Huang was tyrannical and ruthless, so that you and I would be separated on the day of our new marriage, and even more let you die in Huangquan, how can I marry him?" I'm here to accompany you!" With that, she jumped and jumped into the sea.

Qin Shi Huang saw Meng Jiangnu jump into the sea, but there was nothing he could do, he looked at the rolling waves of the sea, and his heart was full of mixed feelings. Later, in order to commemorate Meng JiangNu, people built a Meng Jiang Nu Temple for her where she jumped into the sea. One is to commemorate this loyal woman; the other is to let people not forget the ghosts who died because of the construction of the Great Wall.