The Great Wall of China was a result of sacrifices, sweat, labour and dedication. Though it has attracted many tourists around the world for the various sections and vast divisions present around the Great Wall, not many know of its deep impact on the people who were closely related to its construction. There are many stories related to the Great Wall of China. All of them revolve around love, relations, family, longing and belonging.
The Legend of Meng Jiang Nü:
A young man named Fanqi Liang, a worker, escaped from the construction site during the Qin dynasty and hid in a garden. There he found the owner’s daughter Meng Jiang Nü, they fell in love and got married. But soon he was brought back to the site and was made to slog for the construction of the wall. Winter came. Meng Jiang Nü waited day and night for the return of her husband. Finally she decided to sew something for him and brought it to the site to present it to him.
There she learnt that Fanqi Liang was dead and that his body was built into the wall. Meng Jiang Nü wept in front of the wall for days. So powerful were her tears that the 400 km wall collapsed exposing many bodies. Meng Jiang Nü cut her fingers and dripped her blood on the dead until her blood flowed into one body. She immediately knew it was her husband. She buried him and drowned herself. Many temples have been built in her memory. Famous plays and operas take place in China every year depicting the same. Among them, the temple at Shanhaiguan remains in good condition to this day.
Mental soup great wall:
This is a story of the construction of the Huanghuacheng Great Wall. In Beijing, there is a section of wall known as Huang Hua Cheng (the yellow flower fortress). It was named after the hills which were covered by yellow flowers in the summer. Back in the time during the Ming dynasty, a general named Cai Kai was ordered to build the Huanghuacheng Great Wall. He invested lots of money and quality checks to finish this task. The ministry considered this a waste of money.
Thinking that he was fooling the people, they beheaded him. But they soon found the wall to be strong and sturdy and realized that they were wrong in punishing the man. A tomb was thus built in memory of Cai Kai, and had the words “Jintang” (Mental Soup) engraved in it, to describe the sturdiness of this section of the Great Wall.
The happy meeting mouth (Xi Feng Kou):
A man was taken away from his family to build an underwater section of the wall in Hebei Province called Xifengkou Wall (“happy meeting”). Days went by but he didn’t return to his family. His father went to the site in search of him. Father and son ran into each other at Songting Hill by chance. They were so happy that they laughed themselves to death. The pass where they were buried was later named Xifeng Kou Pass. Significado de los nombres
These are some of the heart warming stories which make the Great Wall as true to life and awe-inspiring as it is today. Though each year brings something new to the world, there are still many things left to be uncovered and archeologists are working towards the same.
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