According to legend, during the reign of Qin Shihuang, the labor was heavy, and young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu got married for three days. The groom was forced to start building the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the walls of the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnv wore a warm coat and went through a lot of hardships. Wan Li came to the Great Wall to look for her husband, but what he got was her bad news. She wept bitterly at the gate of the city for three days and nights, and the city was torn apart, revealing Fan Xiliang's body. Meng Jiangnv threw herself into the sea in despair.

Since then, Shanhaiguan has been regarded by later generations as the place where "Meng Jiangnv cries at the Great Wall", and the Meng Jiangnv Temple was built there, where people from south to north often shed tears of sympathy.

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Building the Great Wall is the most cruel and representative of all kinds of labor in feudal dynasties. From the Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty, in the long years of nearly 2,000 years, the Great Wall has been repaired and repaired repeatedly, and countless civilian workers have been forced. At any time, it may have the same experience as Meng Jiangnv.

Therefore, Jiang Nv and Liang are two typical figures created by working people in endless labor, which embodies the disaster that millions of lower-class people are forced to break up their families and their wives and children are separated by labor.

The touching story of Crying over the Great Wall is an indictment of the tyranny of the feudal ruling class and a tribute to the indomitable spirit of the enslaved people.

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