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Overview of the Great Wall of China |
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The Great Wall is not only the wonder of Chinese but the soul of China! Specially, Beijing Badaling Great Wall is the outstanding representation of the Great Wall.
On the peak of Badaling stands towering the Great Wall. She goes up to the South peak and North peak from the Guan city, convolves on the ridge of Jundu Mountain and Qian Mountain. You can not see her beginning or the end, she disappears beyond sinuously.
Unnumbered people from the world have climbed the Great Wall of China, surfed the Great Wall and felt deeply inspirited, song the praises of her and gasped in admiration! |
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When did she come into the groups of mountains? What imprints did the remote years left behind? How many hardships and dangers did she ever got through? So many questions were left to us to think through. What a historical and fantastic scenic for us to travel! We need to know more about herĄ |
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History of the Great Wall of China |
The original sections of the Great Wall were built during the Spring and Autumn Period (8th Century ~ 5th Century B.C.) and Warring States Period (5th Century ~ 221 B.C.) to keep out the Xiongnu invaders from the Xiongnu empire to the North. |
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Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of China, who is the first one to unite all China under one rule during the Qin Dynasty (221 B.C. ~ 206 B.C.), set about connecting those initial sections located to the North and destroying the ones divided his empire on former state lines. |
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Employing anywhere from 700,000 to 3,000,000 workers, the remaining sections of the wall were built in only eight years. The Great Wall of China was born, although it was not the magnificent structure one imagines today. |
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The Badaling Great Wall locates in the northwest of Beijing, her position is longitude 116 degrees 65 cents east and latitude 40 degrees 25 cents north, she is a pass of Jundu Mountain. She extends in all directions that is why she is called Badaling. |
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The name of Badaling, can be read in an old poem "Visit Badaling in the Night". In the Yuan Dynasty, she was called "North Mountain Pass", which is comparative to the "South Mountain Pass". The South mountain pass locates in the Changping county, between the two passes there is a gorge which extends 20 kilometers, this gorge is called "Guan'gou". The Badaling Great Wall locates on the ridge of the northern part of the Guan'gou. It is said "The risk of the JuYong Gate is not the Guan city, but the Badaling". Because of the importance of the Badaling, she had been the place that the military fought against for. The name of "Juyong" comes from a story: Long long ago, Qin Shi Huang force a group of farmers build the Great Wall, these farmers dwelled in a country and later the county was named as Juyong county by Han Wu Di. |
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Nowadays, the Great Wall is of top famous in the world because of her magnificent appearance and melodramatic history. In the slogan of "Loving our China, Repairing our Great Wall!", many places of the Great Wall have been repaired, which make her more boundless. The Great Wall has become the head key point of interest in China and more and more foreign people were attracted by her. |
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