According to legend, during the Qin Dynasty, when Qin Shihuang built the Great Wall, the labor was heavy. Just three days after young Fan Xiliang married Meng Jiangnv, Fan Xiliang was forced to start building the Great Wall. Soon, he died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the Great Wall.

Wearing cold clothes, Meng Jiangnv went through all the hardships and finally came to the Great Wall, but she got the bad news of her husband's death. Meng Jiangnv cried at the Great Wall for three days and nights. Suddenly, the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's remains. Meng Jiangnu buried Fan Xiliang in despair and threw herself into the sea.

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The story about Meng Jiangnv appeared in Zuo Zhuan, which wrote that during the Spring and Autumn Period, a man named Qi Liang followed Qi Zhuanggong to attack Chu and finally died on the battlefield. Qi Zhuanggong asked Qi Liang's wife to accept this suburban crane. Qi Liang's wife thought it was impolite and refused Qi Zhuanggong.

This in itself is a story praising women's adherence to etiquette. However, in the Warring States period, this story seems to be a bit of the custom of crying in folk tunes at that time, and it became the wife of Qi Liang, crying for the main city, and the city collapsed.

While listening to this touching story, people gave it new thoughts and feelings. In the Tang Dynasty, in view of the large-scale construction of the Great Wall and the large-scale conscription and corvee in the Northern Qi and Sui Dynasties, the working people could not say that they were miserable.

At this time, it is a good choice to re-create the story of Meng Jiangnv. Qi Liang became a husband, and the wall that Meng Jiangnv cried was obviously the Great Wall, and the emotional tone of the story also changed.

In order to escape the hardship, Qi Liang ran into Meng's garden and bumped into Miss Meng who was taking a bath. Miss Meng fell in love with scholar Qi Liang at first sight and decided to commit suicide. The two married under the auspices of her father.

Qi Liang was quickly arrested by officers and men and went on building the Great Wall. Qi Liang's wife missed her distant husband day and night and finally made up her mind to find him.

In the cold winter, a delicate young lady finally put on a warm coat for her husband and arrived at the Great Wall, but she heard that her husband had been overworked and died in the Great Wall.

It never occurred to her that she had experienced so many hardships that she could not even see one side. The more she thought about it, the more sad she became. So she knelt on the wall and cried, but she didn't want to. After crying for ten days, the Great Wall collapsed.

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