The Wonderful Tour to the Famous Great Wall

The ancient Great Wall of China in different periods for the Union to resist the attack of Saibei nomads of the vast scale of military construction projects referred to. Ten thousand li Great Wall stretches things, it is also known as the Great Wall. Existing remains of the Great Wall was built in the 14th century the Ming Great Wall, Jiayuguan in the west, east to Liaodong Hushan, length 8851.8 km, average height 6-7 meters wide and 4-5 meters. Working people in ancient China the Great Wall is the great miracle of creation, is the witness of Chinese history. With Tiananmen Square, Terracotta Warriors along with the world as a symbol of China.

Great Wall is a treasure of Chinese civilization, is one of the world's cultural heritage is also famous buildings and pyramids of Egypt, or the miracle of humanity. In the distant thousand years ago, the working people to physically build the Great Wall. Great Wall is the ancient Chinese people's wisdom, but also a symbol of the Chinese nation.

Spring and Autumn period, countries princes to defend against the invasion of other countries, the construction of beacon towers and walls connected with the formation of the first Great Wall. Almost all the kings after the reinforcement of upgrading the Great Wall. It is because as long as tens of thousands of years, it is also known as the "Great Wall." According to records, with nearly one million workers emperor built the Great Wall, the total national population of the twentieth. No machinery was available, all have to rely on human labor, and the work environment is mountains, cliffs, deep valleys, is very difficult. Shanhaiguan Great Wall of east, west to Jiayuguan, east to the Yalu River. From east to west, passing through 10 provinces and autonomous regions. The total length of the Great Wall of 8851.842 km, of which the length of the artificial wall 6259.662 km, trenches and natural form length 2592.265 km.

According to historical documents, building the Great Wall more than 5000 kilometers of the three dynasties: First Emperor of the West when the construction of the Great Wall from Lintao east to Liaodong; second is the construction of the Western Han Dynasty from now Xinjiang, both inside and outside the east, the Great Wall and Feng Sui Liaodong Pavilion barrier, length 1 13,000 km; Third, construction of the Ming Dynasty Jiayuguan in the west, east to the Yalu River, the Great Wall, a total length of 8851.841 km (2009 Revision). If the construction of the Great Wall all times total, 50,000 km. These sites are located in the Great Wall of China today, Beijing, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, Xinjiang, Tianjin, Liaoning, Heilongjiang, Henan, Hubei, Hunan and Shandong, more than 10 provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions. Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, there is only one site of over 15,000 km within the territory. Followed by the Great Wall in Gansu.

As a long time span, the early era of the Great Wall most of all incomplete mutilation, now save the more complete the construction of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. So most people talk about the Great Wall, mainly refers to the Ming Great Wall. Called the length of the Great Wall, but also refers to the length of the Ming Great Wall, the Ming Great Wall, Jiayuguan in the west, east of the Yalu River.