5000 kilometers long and more than 2000 years old the Great Wall of China is a symbol of spirit of the Chinese nation. MIllions of workers were drafted to build the Wall throughout the rule of different dynasties. For thousands of them The Great Wall became their greave.

According to a folk legend, 400 kilometers of the Great Wall, moved by the heartbreaking cries of a woman for her dead husband, simply crumbled.

The woman was known as Meng Jiangnu. The story goes that during the reign of the First Emperor of Qin, Meng’s husband was drafted to build the Great Wall and after three years had not returned home. His wife decided to bring him some warm clothes and traveled for days before she finally reached the construction site at Shanhaiguan, the very east end of the Great Wall, only to learn that her husband had been worked to death and was buried at the bottom of the wall. Overwhelmed with grief, she could not stop crying. Suddenly the wall fell and she found the remains of her husband. In China’s history, Meng Jiangnu is by no means the only woman left crying at the wall.