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Once,  when  she  was  walking  in  the  garden  he decided to marry her. Meng Jiangnu had no
            she found a man hiding in the bushes, and  choice but to agree, but she said she’d marry
            immediately called for her parents. When the  the Emperor only under three conditions: first,
            man came out, it was a young, good looking  her husband was to be given a proper burial;
            man named Fan Xiliang. Fan was hiding from  second,  the  emperor  and  his  court  must  go
            officials that wanted to take him to build the  into  mourning  for  Xiliang;  and  third,  she
            great Wall. Jiangnu and Xiliang fell in love,  wanted to visit the ocean.
            and  were  married  in  short  order.  But  their
            happiness  was  not  everlasting  –  three  days  The Emperor was not happy with the idea of
            after  their  wedding  Xiliang  was  taken  by  giving a proper funeral to a commoner, but he
            officials to build the wall.                       agreed. After the funeral she was determined
                                                               to escape the Emperor and reunite with her
            A year passed and Jiangnu did not hear any  one true husband, so she threw herself into
            news from her husband. Once she had a dream  the ocean near the Bohai Sea.
            that he was freezing on the wall, after waking
            up she started knitting warm clothes for him.  The  story  of  “Meng  Jiangnu”  was  created,
            It was then she decided she would find him,  due  to  people’s  hatred  toward  Emperor
            no matter the cost. Day and night she climbed  Qinshihuang.  It  reflects  the  grievances
            over mountains and went through the rivers,  ancient people had about tyranny as well as
            slipping  and  falling  many  times,  and  after  the praise of unyielding women. The Temple
            many moons she finally reached the foot of  of Meng Jiangnu was first established in the
            the Great Wall at the present Shanhaiguan  Song Dynasty about 1,000 years ago, and ever
            Pass. And when she reached there, it turned  since it has been maintained and worshiped
            out  that  her  husband  had  died  from  hard  at the eastern beginning of the Great Wall,
            labor and was buried somewhere under the  in the Qinhuangdao City of Hebei Province.
            Great Wall like thousands of other workers.

            Upon  hearing  such  news  Meng  Jiang  could
            not  help  but  cry  with  grief  for  her  beloved
            husband, she wept like this for three days and
            and three nights.


            Suddenly with a tremendous noise, that part
            of  the  wall  just  collapsed.  Chinese  believed
            in  the  telepathy  between  heaven  and  man.
            They  thought  man’s  cries  could  move  God,
            and that’s why she was able to “bring down
            the Great Wall with her tears”.


            Emperor Qin Shihuang (Qin Dynasty (221BC-
            206BC) happened to be touring the wall at
            that  exact  time,  and  he  wanted  to  punish
            Meng for destroying the wall. When soldiers
            brought him Meng Jiangnu, he was astonished
            by her beauty, and instead of punishing her,

             Source: https://www.theworldofchinese.com/2015/03/the-legend-of-meng-jiangnu/
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