the Great Wall

Have you ever heard of the famous Great Wall of China? I believe you do! :-) The Great Wall was first built to defense the intrusion from the north in 220–206 BC by the first emperor of China, Qin Shi Huang, in Qin Dynasty. Since then, the Great Wall has on and off been rebuilt, maintained, and enhanced for hundreds of years. It was a tremendous fabulous project, that almost goes from the very west till the very east of China. It measures more than 6,259 km (3,889 mi). It costed countless money, resource, and lives of millions of people. So that’s why there is never gonna be such a project in nowadays. When the Great Wall was under construction, people just carried the stones, bricks and earths by their hands and many people died. Then their corpses also became a part of the Great Wall.

There is a legend tale about the Great Wall has been spread for hundreds of years. It is one of four most beautiful and sad love stories of ancient China. This legendary story of Meng Jiang Nv is known to all in China.
During Qin dynasty, most men in the country were forced by the emperor Qinshihuang to build the Great Wall. Those who were forced to leave home to build the walls could barely stay alive.
There is a young lady named Meng Jiang Nv who was just married with her husband Fanqiliang. On the third night after their wedding, Fanqiliang was forced to build the Great Wall. A few days later, Fanqiliang died because of biter hunger and overwork. When the days got cold, Meng Jiang Nv worried about her husband and decided to look for her husband while sending him 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 walls. She was totally heartbroken by the news and wept very sadly at the foot of the walls. For the entire three days and night, she had never stopped weeping. Even the heaven was moved by her tears and the nearby tens of kilometers of walls began to collapse. When the wall collapsed, numerous dead bodies began to show up. She broke 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 Nv had finally found the body of her husband and wept sadly at it.