TRAVEL AND BREATH IN CHINA

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Great Wall History: According to historical records, the Great Wall’s construction lasted more than two thousand years, from the seventh century BC Chu building “in town” until the Ming Dynasty there were more than 20 nobles and feudal dynasty had built the Great Wall, which Qin, Han, Ming Dynasty Great Wall in the length of three of more than 1000 kilometers 5. If the construction of the Great Wall all the times added together, the total length of more than 50,000 kilometers; if the masonry wall was built by the Turkish side to work together to build 1 m thick, 5-meter-high wall, this wall can be more than a week around the earth.
[Great Wall of the Warring States] period of the Warring States Period, Chu northern nomadic peoples or to defend against an enemy, the Great Wall began construction, and then, Qi, Yan, Wei Zhao, Qin and other countries for the same purpose have also begun construction of its own Great Wall.

[Qin Dynasty Great Wall] QIN , the Qin Shi Huang sent a well-known general Mengtian Xiongnu Northern Expedition, the countries of the Great Wall together, Lintao west, east to Liaodong, stretching over years, was called the Great Wall, which is the “Great Wall” name the origin. Only remnants of the Great Wall of Qin relics. Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall in order to spend 30 million people, has created a miracle in the history of human construction. An objective to build the Great Wall to prevent the Huns played an invasion to protect the economic and cultural development of the Central Plains active role. Evaluation of Dr. Sun Yat-sen had: “no Road, and the Great Wall of active in the future, it is on the water, such as Yu.”

[Han Dynasty Great Wall] Han continue to carry out the construction of the Great Wall. From Emperor to, repair has become a west City, the north shore of the east of Heilongjiang, a total length of nearly 10,000 kilometers, half of the ancient Silk Road along this journey on the Great Wall, the longest in history, the Great Wall .

[Ming Dynasty Great Wall] we have seen today is the Great Wall tomorrow. Founded the Ming Dynasty, Ming emperor fled north to defend against the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty of the attack, ordered the construction of the Great Wall. The project took all of two hundred years to complete. Great Wall of Ming Dynasty Jiayuguan in Gansu Province west, east to the Yalu River in Dandong, Liaoning Hushan south, a total length of 12,000 in Yu Hua.
Meandering miles of the Great Wall in the vast land of China, with its majestic appearance very ambitious heard so much about the world. Today, “I love China, I repair the Great Wall,” the call, many have been repaired, a new, more magnificent, and has become the first spot. It attracts thousands of visitors at home and abroad in order to list the Great Wall for life satisfaction. Where people have been to the Great Wall, world are amazing.
   Like a dragon-like vault in the mountains, the Gobi Desert Great Wall is Chengguan, walls, enemy units, consisting of beacon towers and so is our country and all ethnic groups around the ancient rule of inter-group system of military defense project. It is two thousand years ago, repeated many times by people of all ethnic groups together to build and embodies the Chinese nation’s great strength and strong will to become China’s ancient civilization in a brilliant gem. People of all ethnic groups both inside and outside the Great Wall in the numerous struggles and long-term exchanges, there have been many heroic and moving story, drawing history for their painting, the treasure house of literature and art in our country, the addition of many beautiful and touching picture of the chapter.
   Far away in the eleventh century BC, the Western Zhou Dynasty in China alone, “he City” records. 7-3 century BC, the Spring and Autumn Period, the feudal State of the annexation of each other to form a continuous melee crowded side by side the situation in their own borders, has built the Great Wall in order to self-defense. Such as the Chu region take the lead in Nanyang City, hundreds of years to build; Qi in Shandong Province to the east coast from Pingyin Langyatai build the Great Wall and the old course of the embankment along the Yellow River for the city; Zhongshan, Wei, Han, Yan, Zhao and Qin and other countries , the construction of the Great Wall thousands of miles to hundreds of years. At that time, Miles has been chief of the Great Wall, but it is scattered independently.
221 BC, the Qin Shi Huang after the demolition of the countries on the one hand, between the Great Wall, on the other hand to prevent the north side of the Huns and the mobilization of soldiers and civilians on the millions of people, life Mengtian Governor General to build the Great Wall, Taohe west to east along the Yellow River, then the original Qin, Zhao, Yan toward the Great Wall to liaotungensis, million years, to become the first Great Wall of China.
   Western Han Dynasty, the northern part of Hun more powerful tribe, who repeated the south, in addition to the Han Dynasty Tonghao, and pro-and means of attack, but also a beacon to handle large-scale solid border to the Great Wall. In addition to repairing the Great Wall of Qin, the west by building more HEXI, Pass, Great Wall and so on Juyan Ze. North the five original Yinshan east through the Great Wall of Qin Yan, from liaotungensis Pass to the West, as long as more than two years. Loulan west side by side booths, to the north, people Linqu (Ulan Bator, the northeastern region), far more than the size of the Qin Dynasty. The early Eastern Han Dynasty Xianbei anti-North West Anti , within the Great Wall in the Western Han Dynasty, Tai Hing barrier mound for beacon Cypriot dock, with a total length amounts to more than thousands of miles. Han Dynasty by a North-South building the Great Wall is the largest history.
   Since then, the North of all ethnic groups in northern China is entering the closing until the Central Plains, the establishment of the Northern regime, the formation of the Southern and Northern Dynasties confrontation. North of the Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Northern Qi Dynasty, Northern Zhou Dynasty set in the Yellow River in western Liaoning, north of the east, the Great Wall to build multiple, criss-crossing, also on General Miles. Sui reunification of the country after the upper and middle reaches of the Yellow River from the clouds by the five original, Yulin, Ningxia to Longxi, four or five thousand years to build the Great Wall, and north of the Great Wall in the east constitute just another system.
   Strong and powerful country in the Tang Dynasty, the Great Wall north of the west are the tribes Tonghao , it did not build the Great Wall, only built-in Yinshan “surrender the city,” three, four things from each other, and that even the barrier to the city; in western Gansu gucheng building complex. At this time, the eastern part of Korea in order to prevent Tang, in Northeast China from Fuyu, the original, the new bin Datong Jiangkou to North Korea more than 2000 years to build the Great Wall.
   Zhu, Liao, Jin period, 16 states in North China Yanyun Qidan , Hexi is Xixia, Shuji only a Northern Song dangers. After successive Galerkin strong, in-depth Huai Han, and JIANGBEI, situation caused by the Southern Song Dynasty, and then can not afford to build the Great Wall. the right to due north and among all ethnic groups in Mongolia and other struggle with the contradictions, in this north-eastern Inner Mongolia and other places a beacon cutting Gilbert the Great Wall, the chief also thousands of miles, said the Great Wall Mingchang, commonly known as the Genghis Khan wall.
   After the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the Yuan dynasty and the restoration of the day , Nuzhen, Tibetan and other ethnic harassment, continued to build the Great Wall in the north, and the fight against foreign invasion, in the southeast coast are also scattered to a number of the Great Wall built. Out as much as the Great Wall is the most ancient. Mainly from the River side of the Great Wall of nine Liancheng to the Jiayuguan in Gansu Province, where more than 15,000 full-length. In Beijing and Shanxi pianguan, the two Great Wall is divided into north and south. In many sections on the Great Wall in addition to the main side walls, there are two edges, triangular, outside, inside the side edge retaining walls and other multi-channel, such as a large stone wall outside Yanmenguan 3, 23 small stone walls. Shanhaiguan one from among the 12,700 to Jiayuguan in the better preservation of the main Great Wall, especially around the Shanhaiguan to Beijing, after re-Qi Governor had built the most spectacular of the Great Wall.
   The early Qing Dynasty in Liaoning, Jilin to build a well-known among Shengjing wall (wicker side), the old and new side-wall length of more than 2600 years. Of the ancient Great Wall is also partial restoration of the mountains, such as pass and certain paragraphs of the Great Wall. No medium-term after the repair.
   Experienced a long time and man-made destruction, many of the ancient Great Wall has come to a great extent scattered. Ming Great Wall is also damaged by many. However, the total length of more than a dozen miles of the Chinese dragon, the ancient human remains of the most spectacular works great. And it at different times, different locations, the system due to the risk side, showing a mix, without a similar marvelous landscape, embodied the art of building imaginative power. People of all ethnic groups both inside and outside the Great Wall of China, after a long-term exchanges, and finally break through the division of man-made obstacles, has been condensed into a unified Chinese nation unity and harmony of the family of fraternity. The Great Wall as a symbol of Chinese ancient civilization great is not only proud of our nation, but also for people all over the world aspire to, it will enhance the friendship of all peoples to make a major contribution.