Yes
Or
No
A
little rustic looking basically mounded up
dirt made up the wall.
 At
this time the Dynasties were fighting for
Power and the wall continued to be built.
 More
Modern not as rustic as past dynasties
 The
wall that exist today was built mainly
by the Ming Dynasty
Meng Jiang Nu weeping on the Great
Wall 孟姜女哭长城
This legendary story of Meng Jiang Nu is
known to all in China.
During Qin dynasty, most men in the
country were forced by the emperor Qin
Shi Huangdi to go build the Great Wall.
Those who were forced to leave their
homes to go build the Great wall could
barely stay alive.
There is a young lady name Meng Jiang Nu
who was just married to her husband
Fanqiliang
On the third night of their wedding,
Fanqiliang was forced to go build the
Great Wall. Few months later Fanqiliang
died because of biter hunger and
overwork. When the days got cold, Meng
Jiang Nu worried about her husband and
decided to look for her husband while
sending the winter clothes. She walked
for thousands of kilometers, conquered
all the difficulties on the trip and finally
arrived at the Great Wall.
What she only got was the bad news that
her husband had died and his body was
still under the wall. She was totally heart
brokened by the news and wept very sadly
at the foot of the wall. For the entire three
days and three nights, she had never
stopped weeping. Even the heaven was
moved by her tears and then nearby tens
of kilometers of walls began to collapse.
When the wall collapsed, numerous dead
bodies began to show up.
She cut her finger and let the blood
drop drip to the dead bodies. She
prayed that the blood would
permeate into the body if it was her
husband’s body, instead the blood
would flow away. In this way, Meng
Jiang Nu had finally found the body
of her husband and wept sadly at it.
The collapse of the Great Wall
disturbed Qin Shi Huangdi, the
emperor. When Qin Shi Huangdi
came and saw Meng Jiang Nu, he was
attracted by the beautiful lady, Meng
Jiang Nu weeping at a dead body. Qin
Shi Huangdi then forced her to be his
concubine. Meng Jiang Nu
pretended to obey the emperor’s
order, but she asked the emperor to
do three things for her
The first thing was to order a monk
to chant her husband’s name for 49
days (this was believed to be the way
of bringing the dead people’s soul to
heaven) and buried him as well. The
second thing was that he should offer
sacrifice to her husband together
with those civil and military officials.
The third thing was that she could go
to travel in the water and mountain
areas before getting married.
The emperor Qin Shi Huangdi agreed
with her request and did all the things
she asked. When the three things
were done, Meng Jiang Nu bitterly
scolded the emperor, jumped into the
sea and committed suicide.
Later people built a Meng Jiang Nu
temple at the place where she wept.
Today the temple is located on the
Fenghuangshan mountain 6.5 km east of
Shanhaiguan, has become a famous
scenic spot in Shanhaiguan, Hebei
province, and the story of Meng Jiang
Nu weeping on the Great Wall is sure to
pass on from generation to generation
and her story will continue moving the
people of later generations.
 Mongol
Empire – Biggest land empire in the
history of the world
 Some
say the wall was built to try to keep
the Mongols out of China
 Kublai
was more tolerant than most of the
other Mongol Emperors
 The
wall had gaps and armies could
easily walk around the wall
 Armies
could throw up a ladder or scale the
wall to get over it and there could be no one
there to stop them.
 Is
a Massive creation that took over 2,000
years to build
 What we prominently see of the wall was
built by the Ming Empire
 The wall was built by the dynasties to
discourage them from attacking each
other.
 It is One of the new seven wonders of the
world.