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Lady Mengjiang weeping over the Great Wall

Chinese Folk Tales

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The Story of Lady Mengjiank

Mengjiank is the name of a young woman who was taken away by soldiers. Her husband Fai Sihlong had been recruited to build the Great Wall for Zheng Shehuang, first emperor of Qing. Lady Mengjiank waited day after day hoping for some kind of message from her husband. But she knew it would be in vain as nothing was ever heard of them again.

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