1, abbreviated as Minimal Edition:
Meng Jiangnv wept for her dead working husband at the foot of the Great Wall, moved to heaven and cried down the Great Wall.
2, the golden mean version:
Meng Jiangnv married a scholar named Fan Xiliang. But as soon as he got married, Fan Xiliang was taken as a laborer to build the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnv went to the Great Wall and learned that Fan Xiliang had passed away. She was very sad and cried at the foot of the Great Wall for three days and nights. The heavy rain poured down and washed away the Great Wall.
3. Long version:
In ancient times, the eldest daughter of an old man named Jiang Meng was clever, virtuous and kind, and was good at playing the piano and knitting. She married a scholar, Fan Xiliang. Later, Fan Xiliang was taken to repair the Great Wall. After a long time, Meng Jiangnv went to find her husband and finally found her husband's bones under the Great Wall. She cried on her husband for seven days and seven nights, and cried for more than ten miles of the Great Wall.
Historical Textual Research on the Story of Meng Jiangnu Crying for the Great Wall;
There is a saying that the story of Meng Jiangnu crying at the Great Wall is purely fictional, because the Shanhaiguan Great Wall was built after the Qin Dynasty, and the Great Wall built by the Qin Dynasty is hundreds of miles north of Shanhaiguan. Since there was no Great Wall in the local area at that time, it was naturally impossible to cry for it.
Another story about Meng Jiangnv happened in the Spring and Autumn Period. According to Zuo Zhuan's Twenty-three Years of Xianggong, in four years (the first 550 years), Dr. Qi Liang died when he attacked Ju. Qi Liang's wife died in the suburbs. According to legend, she cried for her husband for ten days and the wall collapsed. According to misinformation, later generations described Qi Liang's wife as a person in Qin Shihuang's time and deduced the story of the Great Wall crying.
Refer to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Meng Jiangnv Crying in the Great Wall-Legend of China