In the time of China's First Emperor, Qin Shi Huang, the Great Wall swallowed men's lives the way fire swallows kindling. Hundreds of thousands were dragged from their homes and thrown into the northern wilderness to haul stones and stack them into an endless wall. Most never came back. It was in that brutal age that a young woman named Meng Jiangnu lived.
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The place
Great Wall of China
The Tears That Brought Down the Wall
One of China's Four Great Folk Tales — a wife's grief that shattered stone
Qin Dynasty (221-206 BC)Great Wall of China
Moral of the Story
“No empire, however mighty, can withstand the force of a broken heart. The wall that silenced a million voices was brought down by one woman's grief.”
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Meng Jiangnu — the faithful wifeF
Fan Xiliang (Wan Xiliang) — her scholar husbandQ
Qin Shi Huang — the First EmperorSource
Zuozhuan (5th century BC), Dunhuang manuscripts, Chinese folk tradition, UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage