Meng Jiangnu

In the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), there is a beautiful young lady named Meng Jiangnu; she married with Fan Qiliang. Unfortunately, at wedding ceremony night, Fan was taken away by force to build the Great Wall.

One year later, Meng Jiangnu made clothes for Fan Qiliang and began her long-distance wading to find her husband alone. She underwent hardships on her way and finally reached the construction site, only to find that Fan had died and been buried under the wall. On hearing the news, she wept herself for three days. A section of the wall with a distance of hundreds of kilometers suddenly tumbled down. Many skeletons buried under the wall were revealed.

Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of the Qin Dynasty, saw the pretty lady and demanded her to marry him. Meng Jiangnu committed suicide by jumping into the Bohai Sea.

This sad story was then spread widely and passed down through succeeding generations. In memory of this faithful woman, a temple was built at the Mt Phoenix near the Shanhaiguan Pass in Hebei Province. For tourists to Shanhaiguan Pass, they should pay a visit to this temple.