What is the surname of Meng Jiangnv who cried down the Great Wall in folklore
It is said that Meng Jiangnv, who cried down on the Great Wall, was not named Meng. Meng was the eldest son or daughter, but Jiang was his real surname.
Meng Jiangnu means the eldest daughter of the Yuan family, and it does not mean only one person, but a general term for a class of people.
The story of Meng Jiangnu crying over the Great Wall is one of the four folk love stories in China. After years of investigation and verification, the Great Wall is not the Great Wall in Beijing, but the Great Wall site in Qilu, Shandong Province. There are also many legends about Meng Jiangnu crying over the Great Wall. It is said that during the Qin Shihuang period, the labor was very heavy. Meng Jiangnu's newly married husband was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue. The body was buried under the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu came to Changcheng to look for her husband after thousands of hardships, but got the sad news of her husband's death, and then suffered under the Great Wall, Over time, the Great Wall cried down.