chinas four great folktales, emperor qin shi huang, fan xiliang, meng jiangnu weeps, the great wall of china
This story is about a girl named Meng Jiangnu (孟姜女) and her beloved Fan Xiliang. Their love story is one of China’s four great folktales called Meng Jiangnu Weeps or Meng Jiangnu Bringing Down the Great Wall With Her Tears (孟姜女哭长城). A childless couple with the family name Meng, lived right next to another childless ...
In 221 B.C., Qin Shi Huang conquered the Six Kingdoms and established the first great unified regime of China. He then began a series of substantial political directives, such as unifying weights and measures, unifying the country’s writing system, and implementing a centralized system to manage state affairs. Externally, he defended his territory against the Xiongnu and expended his efforts to ...