Legend of Lady Meng Jiang Breaking Down

Princess Meng Jiang is rumored to have lived at 2200 years ago during the Qin dynasty. Its existence has become a legend in the community until now, the following story:
A family surnamed Meng once planted gourds along the fence of his house. The plant grows rapidly and propagates through the fence adjacent to the family surnamed Jiang. A large gourd growing near the fence, while Meng split the gourd family, suddenly appeared a girl from inside the pumpkin.
The girl was later named Jiang Meng‘s daughter. He grew into a beautiful girl like heavenly goddess, she is also famous for friendly and intelligent, skilled in making poetry and play music as well as explore the values ??of Confucius. Meng treat an elderly couple as their own.
The first emperor of Qin dynasty is very cruel and unjust. In order to maintain the integrity of this growing new dynasty, he ordered hundreds of youths to work as slaves to build the Great Wall north side without considering the safety of their souls. Many young men died from exhaustion.
Tersebutlah a scholar named Wan Xiliang who fled from his home to avoid forced labor, he hid behind the yard Meng family. Lady Meng Jiang accidentally found it, and tell his father. Meng’s daughter’s father was a good-hearted, he decided to help Wan escape from the government.
While in hiding at home Meng, Meng family finally know and realize that Wan Xiliang is a student, intelligent and considerate, so they set her up with Jiang Meng castle.
Three days after the marriage they clandestinely, a group of government officials searched the family home and took away Meng Wan Xiliang. Jiang Meng‘s daughter know that her husband would become slaves building the Great Wall. A year long he waited, tears are often soaked pillow. But there was no news of her husband. Finally he decided to look for her husband. But how far is the Great Wall? After walking for days, daughter of Meng Jiang asked an old man. Grandpa replied, “There is a place very far away named provincial You: The Great Wall was there much next to the north.”
During the trip the daughter of Meng Jiang experienced much suffering. He walked all day and night wherever he stopped. He ate bread and drank cold water from the river he encountered. Often he was tired and cold, but he continued the journey, no matter rain and blazing sun, the mountains or rocky terrain. Often he is helped by a few families who met during his travels.
Jiang Meng‘s daughter finally arrived at the Great Wall on a cool autumn day. His heart was torn when I saw the workers carrying heavy loads under the supervision of guards. He then asked the men where her husband Wan Xiliang located, but gained only news he had died a few days after the arrest. His body was buried under the Great Wall.
Instantly Jiang Meng‘s daughter was shaken by a profound sadness; she cried and cried over the Great Wall, the tears flowing like a river. He pounded the Great Wall, it regretted the death of her husband and her destiny. Crying makes sank workers and guards, thereby stopping their work and come to weep with him. The sky became dark and cold autumn winds become more sting like sorry.
Suddenly a loud crash broke the silence, part of the Great Wall collapsed, exposing the remains of a worker’s body buried underneath. Seeing the bones, daughter of Meng Jiang thinking how he can recognize her husband’s. Then he remembered the words of an ancient people that the bones of the deceased can only absorb the blood of his family members. He then scratched the tip of her finger and let the blood fall mengucuri the bones. Finally he found the bones of her husband, after all, he recognized the shirt button that once she’d sewn for him. Jiang Meng‘s daughter buried her husband’s body according to the ritual of a lady as a wife who loves her husband.
According to legend, the Great Wall that collapsed in tears of Meng Jiang‘s daughter was never built again (if rebuilt would soon collapse.) The story of Meng Jiang makes her daughter as someone who is highly respected by the Chinese people from generation to generation. Temple offering of the daughter of Meng Jiang stood first at the Song Dynasty, about 1000 years ago, continues to maintain and worship from the beginning of the founding of the Great Wall to the present day East area.