The Great Wall is the working people in ancient China to create a miracle. Starting from the Warring States period, the construction of the Great Wall has been a major project. It is recorded that the emperor used the Great Wall built nearly a million workers, accounting for population 1 / 20! At that time there is no machinery, all work had to rely on manpower, while the working environment is high mountains, deep valleys, cliff. Can imagine, not the massive crowds to hard work, is unable to complete this huge project. .
2001-06-25, the great spring to the Ming dynasty of ancient architecture, State Council approved the inclusion of the fifth instalment of national heritage conservation units list. The great wall of about 12600.
There are many checkpoints in the Great Wall. These places and more to "Off", "port" name. The Wall in the Zhangjiakou office, but the "door" named that the "big border gate." .
The location of the great wall.
Great Wall of East and West staggered, rolling in our great motherland's land. It is like a dragon, crossing the lofty hills, across the vast grasslands, across the vast desert, toward the vast sea. According to historical literature, there are more than 20 countries and the feudal lords build dynasty Great Wall, if the construction of the Great Wall all the times added together, about 10 miles. Qin, Han and Ming dynasties 3 the length of the Great Wall more than 1 miles.Now China's Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Inner Mongolia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions are the remains of the ancient, beacon towers. One of the great wall of Inner Mongolia autonomous region, only $ 3 million. The great wall is located in the North of China, East Hebei province in the Bohai Bay Shanhaiguan, West to the inland areas of Jiayuguan, Gansu province. TRANS-Hebei, Beijing, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia, Gansu, seven provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, the duration is about 6700 km, about 13300 colleagues, there are "great wall" of reputation.
Just how long the Great Wall? Chinese and foreign experts and scholars agree that the past is the length of the Great Wall a thousand years, twenty years before "the Great Wall." But according to recent research and archeologists on site investigation, preliminary estimates, the Great Wall has thousands of years long. Distribution of ages has built the Great Wall in Xinjiang in the west, east to Heilongjiang, Hunan, south of 16 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Which only the Great Wall of Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region the sum of all times have as much as three miles. Great Wall in Hebei Province is also close to Miles.Once the wall of the Princes and dynasty a total of more than 20, the first emperor of the construction of the wall there are 10 000, there are two of the great wall of the Han dynasty, the great wall of Ming dynasty Wanli also numbered more than 700. The great wall of building construction and building materials.
Great Wall in the long years of Chinese history, Xu Duo feudal dynasty to consolidate its the Tong Zhi, Zeng Jing Jin Xing Guo Duoci its construction; Woguogudai Ta contributed hundreds of thousands of working people had the wisdom, the sweat streaming Jin, Shita become a wonders. Both the dragon-like city wall, or the throat of the pass briefly home, embodied the ideological war was fortified, but also marks the achievements at the height of construction technology. For example, the Ming Dynasty, the feudal economy with a high degree of development, the construction industry and reflects the enormous scale of the production processes and more scientific fired brick workshop.Therefore the product yield of brick, tile is no longer the precious material, so many parts of the walls along the great wall outside eaves wall brickwork with a giant. At that time depends on the manual handling of construction and building materials manually, using the weight, size like brickwork walls, not only easy but also improves the construction efficiency, improved building standards. Secondly, many pass gate, multi-use blue brick masonry% span of the arch, the blue brick has been severely eroded, but the entire Gates still majestic towering, demonstrated that masonry arches of skilled. From the pass the tower on the architectural perspective, a number of stone Zhuanke production technology is extremely intricate, reflecting the craftsmen were excellent and artistic talent. .
Qin yan, Zhao, the three countries.
The starting point of the Great Wall. .
1, Qin yan, Zhao, the great wall in the North building. During the warring States period, Qin, Zhao, yan is built in the North of the great wall, its purpose is to defend against the Huns, donghu South grazing.
2, Qin, Zhao, Yan, the value of the Great Wall. Warring States Period, Qin, Zhao, Yan Great Wall, as a military defense project, the three countries to build the Great Wall, the Huns, and so do not cross the Great Wall Donghu swept south, the Great Wall in military defense played an important role. .
3, warring Qin yan, Zhao, the great wall of historical value and actual value. Warring States period, Yan Zhao Qin, the great historical value, not only the 2200 years ago the Chinese nation's great verve and shows at the height of the wisdom of the people of China, superb military scientific level, a high degree of scientific culture. The great wall of defense construction, in the 2000 years of construction has accumulated rich experience. First, in the layout, Qin Shi Huang's wall is summed for terrain with insurance-plug "experience. 2000 years have been guided by this principle, as important military deployment. Structure in the building materials and construction of "local materials, because materials applied" principle, has created many kinds of structural approach. A rammed earth, stone stone, brick and stone structure of mixing; in the desert also use tamarisk branches, reeds and sand layers of pavement structure can be described as a "wonderful workmanship excelling nature" of the creation, in this Gansu Jade Gate, Yang Customs and Xinjiang also preserve the Great Wall 2,000 years ago that the remains of the Western Han Dynasty. .
4, the miracle of human history. Great wall length of continuous construction, engineering, construction of arduous, rich historical and cultural connotations, is the rest of the world to ancient works. Modern China's great wall's Herald Sun Yat-Sen's comments, he said: "China's most famous works, the great wall. ... Works great, no, it is the only spectacle in the world. "The American President Nixon after visiting the great wall of Ding said:" there is only one great nation, to build a bridge leads to the great wall. " So, the great wall of China as a miracle of human history, including the World Heritage list on the well-deserved . .
5. cultural treasures, historical monument. Frontier poetry has become a classic of the genre. As Li Bai's "Changfeng miles, battlements," Wang "evenings, who is not also a long" Wang Wei "counsel more into a glass of wine in the Sun in the West out of the gate," CEN "run to the tree trunk tree, pear tree drive," and other famous, thousands of years passed. Meng jiangnu nigth's lyrics are still widely heard. Patriotic education establishments, tourist destination of great wall, with its towering majestic appearance, strong body, symbolizes the spirit of the Chinese nation, unflinching, and perseverance to overcome the difficulty . This spirit will always inspire us to move forward. Tourism is not just sightseeing, but also both strong and physical, to increase knowledge, contacts and other activities of friendship and comprehensive economic and trade functions. .
Now the seven wonders of the world.
