This deplorable love story took place in Qin dynasty, the first emperor of Qin Dynasty was building the Great Wall at that time. The first emperor of Qin Dynasty executes tyranny. The local authority catches people as the worker to build the Great Wall everywhere, the person who is caught built the Great Wall by the day and night, a lot of workers are tired to death.

There are a young scholar XiLiang Fan, in order to escape the capturing of local authority, he has to hide everywhere. One day, he run away to the garden of Meng Jiang Girl, meet Meng Jiang Girl unintentionally. Meng Jiang Girl is a clever and beautiful girl, she has hidden him. Later, she liked him, married with him.

However, the unfortunate thing has happened, newly-married less than three days, XiLiang Fan was caught and built the Great Wall by the local authority. Meng Jiang Girl waits for her husband to come back earnestly. After half years, XiLiang Fan has not news at all. It has already been late autumn at this moment, it is getting colder day by day. Meng Jiang Girl thinks that the husband builds the Great Wall in the north, it must be very cold. Thereupon, she make the cotton-padded clothes in person, leave and go to the Great Wall to look for her husband XiLiang Fan.

On the way, Meng Jiang Girl experience much difficulty, resort on mighty willpower, resort on deep love to husband, she reached the Great Wall at last. But the workers who build the Great Wall tell her, XiLiang Fan has already died, the corpse has been filled in the wall of the Great Wall. Hear about the news, Meng Jiang Girl faint quickly, when she wake up, cries sadly. She has cried in three days and three nights totally, the world was moved. It is more and more cloudy, the wind is more and more fierce, suddenly, the ground shake, like the earthquake, with a full-mouthed bang and the clatter, the Great Wall has collapsed several 5 kilometers, uncountable skeleton has emerged. Meng Jiang Girl pierces the finger by the teethes, drop the blood on the skeleton, she prays silently: If it is the husband’s skeleton, the blood will be oozed into the bone, if isn’t, the blood will flow into all sides. Through this method, Meng Jiang Girl find skeleton of XiLiang Fan. She embraces this pile of skeleton, cries sadly again.

Later, Meng Jiang Girl go to the palace, want to condemn the first emperor of Qin Dynasty. But the first emperor of Qin dynasty see that Meng Jiang Girl is very beautiful, want to force her to be his concubine. Meng Jiang Girl pretends agree with him, but require the first emperor of Qin Dynasty to do three things: Bury him well; the first emperor of Qin Dynasty leads the minister to cry and hold a memorial ceremony for XiLiang Fan; after burying him, Meng Jiang Girl wants to go to travel. The first emperor of Qin Dynasty has agreed to Meng Jiang Girl’s demand. After three things are finished, Meng Jiang Girl scolds the first emperor of Qin Dynasty severely, and then jump into the choppy sea.

The story of Meng Jiang Girl cry at the Great Wall, told from mouth to mouth by people. In order to commemorate her, people have built the tomb for her, built the temple for her, named “The temple of Meng Jiang Girl”. The story of Meng Jiang Girl seek husband, cry at the Great Wall and the Great Wall collapse, widely known in China, hand down to generations.