TRAVEL GREAT WALL OF CHINA

Brief about the great wall of china

Great Wall  is one of the world's cultural heritage ,is a treasure of chinese civilization,  is also building a par with China's "National Hill" Tarzan , the pyramids of Egypt , or the miracle of humanity. In the distant two thousand years ago, working people have to physically build the Great Wall. The Great Wall is the crystallization of the wisdom of the people in ancient China , is a symbol of the Chinese nation.

Spring and Autumn Period, the countries princes to defense invasion of other countries, build beacon towers , and walls connected together to form the earliest of the Great Wall. Later kings almost all reinforcement and upgrading the Great Wall. Due to up to tens of thousands of years, it is also known as the "Great Wall".

According to records, Qin Shi Huang uses nearly a million workers to build the Great Wall, accounted for one twentieth of the total population. Did not have any machinery, all the labor by the manpower to complete the work environment, mountains, cliffs, deep valleys, very difficult. Starting from Shanhaiguan Great Wall East west of Gansu Jiayuguan , east to the Yalu River. From east to west, passing through 10 provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Great Wall's total length of 8.8518 million meters of artificial wall length 6,254,239.662 meters trenches and natural formation 2594234.2265 meters in length. Great Wall was built in the Warring States period,  the history of 2,000 years, the total length of more than 5.32 million meters. Yalu River, Great Wall more than we are today referred to the Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall, west from Jiayuguan in Gansu Province in western China, east to northeast China Liaoning Province, 6.35 million meters in length. It is like a vigorous dragon, the more mountains, cliffs, wearing a prairie, cross the desert, the top of ups and downs in the mountains, the other side of the Yellow River and the Bohai Sea. At all times who have been to the Great Wall all amazed the majestic momentum, grand scale and difficult works.

The Great Wall is a rare treasures, extraordinary artistic heritage, a symbol of great will and strength of the Chinese nation impregnable forever, is the pride of the Chinese nation, but also the pride of the whole world.

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  Great Wall at night Qin Shi Huang around 220 BC, to dominate the world, will be built in the earlier fortifications intermittent connection into a complete defense system to resist the aggression from the north. In the Ming Dynasty (AD 1368 to 1644), but also continue to be built, so that the Great Wall to become the world's longest military facilities. Value in the arts, enough with its historical and strategic importance comparable.
Yanqing County, Beijing Badaling Great Wall is the best part of the protection of the steepest part of, or traffic most.

RESIDENCE

The Great Wall is located in the northern part of China, east from the Liaoning Tiger Mountain , west to the inland areas of Gansu Province, Jiayuguan. Trans- 9 Liaoning , Hebei , Tianjin , Beijing , Inner Mongolia , Shanxi , Shaanxi , Ningxia , Gansu provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions , the total length of about 12 600 in the world, the reputation of the "Great Wall"   Great Wall (Shanhaiguan) into the sea It East and West staggered, rolling in our great motherland vast land. It looks like a dragon, crossing the lofty hills, through the vast grasslands, across the vast desert, toward the vast sea. According to historical records, more than 20 the princes countries and of the feudal dynasties built the Great Wall, if we built the Great Wall of all the times together, there are about 100,000 miles. The length of the Great Wall in the Qin, Han and Ming dynasties are more than 10,000 miles. China's Xinjiang , Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin , Heilongjiang , Henan , Shandong , Hubei , Hunan and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions have the ruins of the ancient Great Wall beacon towers . The Great Wall is China's indestructible symbol.

Beginning and ending points

According to historical records, the construction of the Great Wall more than 5000 kilometers of the three dynasties: the First Qin Shi Huang built the West Lintao   Badaling Great Wall East of the Great Wall of Liaodong; the Great Wall of the Han Dynasty built the West from the Hexi Corridor, east to Liaodong, more than 10,000 km. These Great Wall ruins in our country today in Beijing, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Xinjiang, Tianjin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Hubei, Hunan and Shandong, and over 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Which only the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the territory there are ruins of over 15,000 km. Followed by the Great Wall in Gansu.

A long time span, the early era of the Great Wall are mostly incomplete, the complete Ming Dynasty built the Great Wall. So people generally talk about the Great Wall, mainly refers to the Ming Great Wall. Referred to the length of the Great Wall, also refers to the length of the Ming Great Wall, the Ming Great Wall west of Jiayuguan, east of the Yalu River.
The wall structure of the content is determined according to the local climatic conditions, the total view of the Great Wall of building, the following types:
A. Version built of rammed earth walls;
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Two. Adobe assembled wall
3. Brick walls
4. Stone slabs
5 Masonry mixed masonry
6. Of stone
7. Soil to connect the brick.
Mixed puzzle of brick, stone, brick and masonry walls of bricks or of stone masonry and terrain, the terrain slope is small, parallel to the local potential gradient is large, then the level drops to masonry.