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Lime of Ten-Thousand Years and the Town of Yanjing

There was no time when the state of Yan started to build the Great wall,so the stones and bricks of the wall were laid and plastered with clay.According to legend,the king of the state of Yan ordered not to stop the construction even in winter in order to race against time so as...

Great Wall History (2)

The Qin Dynasty Great Wall In 221 B.C.,QinShihuang,later known as “the first emperor in Chinese history”,successivelyconquered the six ducal states of Han,Wei,Chu,Zhao,Yan and Qi,and establishedthe first unified centralized multi-ethnic feudal country in Chinese historybased on...

The battle of the Great Wall

The war of Zijinguan In 1449,the leader of theMongolian Wala division ,named yexian,led his troops to attack the ming Dynastyalong three routes.When the west route vanguards of the Wala army arrived atZijingguan(pass),they encounter tenacious resistance from the ming...

The Passes Of the Greatwall

The Shanhaiguan Pass Located in the northeast of Qinhuangdao city, Hebei Province, the Shanhaiguan pass was built in 1381, having a total length of about 26 km. It is the northeast starting point of the Ming Great Wall, and is also the estuary of the Great Wall. Situated in a...

Great Wall History ( 1)

The History of the GreatWall The Great Wall is a greatmiracle created by the ancient Chinese people,and is also the witness of China’slong history.According to historical records,the Great Wall was firstconstructed in the war torn Warring States period,and the state of Qi built...

The Structure and Operation

“Taking full advantage of the topographical conditions to build forts and passes”, means that the construction of the Great Wall had taken full advantage of the natural terrain environment. “In line with the terrain”referred to carrying out the construction work according to the...

The Significance of the Great wall

During the Warring States period,on the vast land of China the dukes and princes of the ducal states were contending for hegemony on the one hand,and on the other hand nomadic alliance of the Huns Xiongnu people,the Donghu and others from the north of the Great Wall constantly...

Other sections of the Greatwall

The Hushan Great Wall The Hushan Great Wall is located on the bank of Yalu River, east of Dandong in Liaoning Province, with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on the opposite side of the river. The Hushan Great Wall was first built in 1469, with a total length of about...

The Silk Road

The Silk road was a land access which opened up by Zhang Qian in his mission to the Western Regions.It started from Chang’an(now Xi’an),running all the way through Gansu,Xinjiang,Central Asia ,West Asia and linking the Mediterranean countries with the Western Han Dynasty.It was...

The Grey-brick Wall

The construction method of the grey-brick walls was roughly the same as the adobe walls,which was to have the readymade grey-bricks laid up piece by piece,reinforcing the wall by pointing in between the two bricks with glutinous rice or yellow mud or lime in thick liquid...