Legends about the Great Wall except for Meng Jiangnu s .

In addition to Meng Jiangnu crying about the Great Wall, there are the following stories about the Great Wall:

1. The princes of the Beacon Opera:

In the Western Zhou Dynasty, King You of Zhou, in order to praise him, lit the beacon tower and teased the princes. Bao Xi laughed when she saw it. The King of Darkness was very happy, so he lit the beacon fire many times. Later, the princes didn't believe it, and they gradually stopped coming.

2. Migration Salary Twist:

During the Three Kingdoms, Chen Qun, a famous scholar of Cao Wei, persuaded Yuan Shao and Cao Cao not to send people to Xuzhou to serve as county guards. He believes that if the world is settled, this county must be settled. After Cao Cao heard this, he felt that this was very reasonable, so he sent someone to dismiss the assassin of Xuzhou.

Soon, Cao Cao's army came to suppress it again, killing all the men, women, and children there.

3. Shanhaiguan:

Also known as "Yuguan", it is located 15 kilometers northeast of Qinhuangdao City, and is the first pass at the eastern starting point of the Great Wall. Shanhaiguan is known as "the first pass in the world", and Yuan Chonghuan, a famous general who resisted the Qing Dynasty at the end of the Ming Dynasty, once defeated the Qing army here.

4. Jiayuguan:

It is located in the southwest corner of Jiayuguan City, Gansu Province, and at the southeast foot of Jiamin Xiaoyu Mountain. In the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372), it was built in the westernmost part of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty. The castle is majestic, there are two castle towers in the east and west, four corner towers, and the height is about 15 meters.

Architectural structure of the Great Wall:

The Great Wall is not just a single city wall, but a complete defense engineering system composed of a variety of fortifications such as the city wall, the enemy tower, the Guancheng, the Ming Zheng Dun Fortress, the camp city, the guard station, and the beacon tower of the town city. This defense engineering system is commanded and controlled by military command systems at all levels.

Legend has it that during the reign of Qin Shi Huang, the labor was heavy, and the young men and women Fan Xiliang and Meng Jiangnu were newly married for three days, and the groom was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold, and fatigue, and his bones were buried under the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu was wearing cold clothes, went through hardships, and came to the Great Wall in search of her husband, but what she got was bad news for her husband. She cried bitterly under the city, for three days and three nights, the city collapsed, revealing the remains of Fan Xiliang, and Meng Jiangnu threw herself into the sea and died in despair.

Since then, Shanhaiguan is considered by later generations to be the place of "Meng Jiangnu crying the Great Wall", and built the Mengjiang Temple there, and people from the south to the north often shed a tear of sympathy here.

The Great Wall also has the following stories:

1. Myths and legends: According to legend, when the Great Wall was built, the gods descended to help them, and the most famous of them was "Nuwa mending the sky". Legend has it that when Nuwa was mending the sky, she threw rocks into the Yellow River, forming the Hukou Waterfall, and these rocks became the main material of the Great Wall.

2. Han Xin's troops: It is rumored that Han Xin, a general of the Han Dynasty, once counted troops on the Great Wall, but he did not count the soldiers one by one, but asked the soldiers to line up in three rows, and then asked them to report the number in turn, through this method, Han Xin soon knew the total number of troops.

3. Li Guang shoots stones: It is said that Li Guang, a general of the Han Ming Dynasty, once shot an arrow at a distant stone on the Great Wall. This story was praised by later generations as "Li Guang's shooting stone", forming an allusion of "sending goose feathers for thousands of miles, courtesy and affection".

4. Inscription on the sea: According to legend, during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, a rebel army named Li Zicheng attacked the city of Beijing, in order to prevent the Ming army from attacking, he carved on the Great Wall the words "the general trend of the world, the division of a long time, the combination of a long time must be divided", which is intended to alert future generations to remember history.

5. Zhu Yuanzhang sealed Zen: Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, once held a ceremony on the Great Wall to pray for blessings and express his good wishes for the greatness of heaven and earth and the happiness of the people. This story is also an important event in the history of the Great Wall.

The above are some historical stories and legends of the Great Wall, which enrich the cultural connotation of the Great Wall and also reflect the wisdom and profundity of ancient Chinese culture.

The Great Wall is an important fortification in ancient China, with a rich history and legends. <>

Legend has it that during the Qin Dynasty, when Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, the labor was heavy, the young Fan Xiliang and the woman Meng Jiangnu just got married for three days, Fan Xiliang was forced to set out to build the Great Wall, and soon died of hunger, cold and fatigue, and the bones were buried under the Great Wall.

Meng Jiangnu was wearing a cold coat and went through a lot of hardships to finally come to the Great Wall, but what she got was the bad news of her husband's death. Meng Jiangnu cried on the Great Wall for three days and three nights, and suddenly the Great Wall collapsed, revealing Fan Xiliang's body.