Simply amazing, this thing. One of the stories we were told about the wall was the legend of Lady Meng Jiang. She was recently married to her husband when he was taken to work on the wall. When she went to visit him, she learned that he had died and was buried within the wall. Her grief was such that her tears collapsed a section of the wall, exposing the bones of many workers. She was able to recover her husbands bones and gave him a proper burial. It was said that no matter how many times that section of wall was rebuilt, it would always collapse… The story is a bit longer than that, but I have limited room here – Bing it if you want to read the whole thing…