The Great Wall of Wan Li starts from Shanhaiguan in Hebei Province in the east and ends at Jiayuguan in Gansu Province in the west. It runs across seven provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Gansu, and it twists and turns for 6,7 kilometers, with an area of about 13, li, so it is called the "Great Wall of Wan Li". When people mention the Great Wall, they often associate it with Qin Shihuang. In fact, in the Warring States period before Qin Dynasty, many vassal states, such as Yan, Zhao, Wei, Qin and Han, were building the Great Wall to defend each other. Later, after Qin Shihuang unified the "six countries", it took more than ten years to connect the Great Wall built by various vassal countries and carry out large-scale expansion, which became a magnificent Great Wall as long as Wan Li, which can also be said to be a major military defense measure after Qin Shihuang's reunification. However, in many dynasties after the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall was continuously built until the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the great project of Wan Li Great Wall was finally completed in the late Ming Dynasty, which formed the scale and appearance of the Great Wall today.
The most prominent feature of the Great Wall is that it crosses mountains and mountains, deserts, grasslands and precipices, and is built with the ups and downs of the mountains. Because of the steep terrain, it stands like a flying oriental dragon. Between the Great Wall of Wan Li, countless watchtowers, beacon towers, passes and Fangcheng have been built at regular intervals. There are also many two-story forts built on the city wall. The top of the upper layer is a platform, surrounded by cribs and observation holes, which is convenient for observation and attack. The lower layer has a small brick room where soldiers can live and reserve food and weapons. There are many beacon towers on the commanding heights between the mountains inside and outside the Great Wall. This was set up to transmit military information. Whenever the enemy attacked, the beacon tower was lit with smoke in the daytime and fire at night, so that it was passed down one by one, and even if it was thousands of miles away, the news could soon reach the capital. Another feature of the Great Wall is to build a Guancheng at intervals of about 1 kilometers. The size of Guanchengkou depends on the degree of terrain danger and military importance. Among them, the famous Guancheng include Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan, Badaling, Yanmenguan and Jiayuguan. For example, Juyongguan is built 5 kilometers northwest of Beijing. It is built in a deep mountain canyon about 2 kilometers long. The terrain is very dangerous and it has the momentum of "and while one man guards it, ten thousand cannot force it". It is the northwest gateway of ancient Beijing and its location is very important.
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Wan Li Great Wall
The world-famous Great Wall of Wan Li, like a vigorous dragon, twists and turns on the land of China. The Great Wall of Wan Li, magnificent and magnificent, is a miracle created by working people in ancient China, the most magnificent construction project in the world, and unique in human history.
The Great Wall of Wan Li starts from Shanhaiguan in Hebei Province in the east and ends at Jiayuguan in Gansu Province in the west. It runs across seven provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions, including Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Gansu, and it twists and turns for 6,7 kilometers, with an area of about 13, li, so it is called the "Great Wall of Wan Li". When people mention the Great Wall, they often associate it with Qin Shihuang. In fact, in the Warring States period before Qin Dynasty, many vassal states, such as Yan, Zhao, Wei, Qin and Han, were building the Great Wall to defend each other. Later, after Qin Shihuang unified the "six countries", it took more than ten years to connect the Great Wall built by various vassal countries and carry out large-scale expansion, which became a magnificent Great Wall as long as Wan Li, which can also be said to be a major military defense measure after Qin Shihuang's reunification. However, in many dynasties after the Qin Dynasty, the Great Wall was continuously built until the Ming Dynasty. It can be said that the great project of Wan Li Great Wall was finally completed in the late Ming Dynasty, which formed the scale and appearance of the Great Wall today.
The most prominent feature of the Great Wall is that it crosses mountains and mountains, deserts, grasslands and precipices, and is built with the ups and downs of the mountains. Because of the steep terrain, it stands like a flying oriental dragon. Between the Great Wall of Wan Li, countless watchtowers, beacon towers, passes and Fangcheng have been built at regular intervals. There are also many two-story forts built on the city wall. The top of the upper layer is a platform, surrounded by cribs and observation holes, which is convenient for observation and attack. The lower layer has a small brick room where soldiers can live and reserve food and weapons. There are many beacon towers on the commanding heights between the mountains inside and outside the Great Wall. This was set up to transmit military information. Whenever the enemy attacked, the beacon tower was lit with smoke in the daytime and fire at night, so that it was passed down one by one, and even if it was thousands of miles away, the news could soon reach the capital. Another feature of the Great Wall is to build a Guancheng at intervals of about 1 kilometers. The size of Guanchengkou depends on the degree of terrain danger and military importance. Among them, the famous Guancheng include Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan, Badaling, Yanmenguan and Jiayuguan. For example, Juyongguan is built 5 kilometers northwest of Beijing. It is built in a deep mountain canyon about 2 kilometers long. The terrain is very dangerous and it has the momentum of "and while one man guards it, ten thousand cannot force it". It is the northwest gateway of ancient Beijing and its location is very important.
In the center of Juyongguan, there is also a white marble platform called Yuntai. It turned out that there were three stone pagodas built on Yuntai, which were built in the Yuan Dynasty and have now been destroyed. There is a hexagonal doorway under Yuntai. On the stone walls on both sides of the doorway, four heavenly kings and many beautifully shaped Buddha statues are carved. The four heavenly kings looked bright-eyed and full of strength. There are a large number of stone statues in the doorway, as well as Buddhist scriptures carved in Chinese, Xixia and Tibetan. These statues and stone carvings are also carved in the Yuan Dynasty and have high artistic value. Badaling is a part of Juyongguan, which is more than 1 meters above sea level, commanding and steep. Because the Badaling section of the Great Wall is particularly steep and majestic, and it is close to Beijing, it was renovated after liberation, and it has been listed as a national key cultural relics protection unit, and now it has become a popular tourist attraction for people at home and abroad.
When you climb the highest beacon tower of Badaling Great Wall, you can see from a distance that the winding Great Wall is flying like a dragon, climbing mountains and swimming to the distant horizon. Look at the fortresses of the Great Wall, one after another, one wall after another, endless and vast. Seeing such a magnificent scene, a sense of national pride rises spontaneously; The tall and long Great Wall is built on high mountains and cliffs, and the difficulty of construction is unimaginable. At this time, you may think: we will feel very hard to climb the Great Wall empty-handed, so how did we build such a magnificent Great Wall without any construction machinery in ancient times? No wonder people praise the Great Wall as a miracle of human activities, a monument in the history of human civilization and a symbol of the wisdom, strength and unyielding spirit of the Chinese nation. Therefore, the Great Wall has been listed as a "world cultural and natural heritage" protection project by the United Nations.