The Mengjiang Temple
The Mengjiang Temple, in commemoration of a legendary woman named “Mengjiang”, is 6.5 kilometers to the east of the Shanhai (Mountain and Sea) Pass. It was built in 1594 (the 22nd year of the reign of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty). The legend goes that the woman trudged thousands of miles in order to visit her husband who had been drafted into doing the hard labor of building the Great Wall. She took with her the winter clothing for her husband and arrived at the Shanhai Pass, only to find that her husband had died. She wept her heart out, her tears flooding the Great Wall so that it collapsed. In despair she committed suicide by jumping into the sea. In memory of her death, people built a temple on a hill near the site, with stone steps leading to it. There are two halls in the temple. A clay statue of Mengjiang was placed in the front hall. Dressed in black and white, she looks worried and grieved, gazing at the sea in the south. The back hall is for the worship of Guanyin, the Goddess of Mercy. Outside the backdoor stands a huge stone, on which an inscription was carved. The inscription reads Wangfushi, which means “the stone on which a woman steps and she stretches her eyes over the sea, yearning for the return of her husband”. A small pit on it is said to be the footprint left by Mengjiang. Beside the stone is a pavilion called “Zhenyiting”, a place, according to the legend, where she dresses and makes up.
Meng jiangnu temple
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