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Great Wall

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The construction of the Great Wall started during the Warring States Period on 7th century B.C, it had a history of more than 2,500 years. Many dukedoms built walls in Central China to protect themselfs and their northern territories. When Qin Shihuang, the first emperor in Chinese history, unified China and established the first centralised feudal state in China, he decided to have the walls linked up and extended.

There were about one million people, one-fifth of China's population at the time, were involved in the project which took more than ten years. Most of the walls we see today were rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty in the 16th century. It extends from Shanhaiguan Pass in the east to Jiayuguan Pass in the west. It is the only construction that the American astronauts could recognize with their naked eyes on their first flight to the Moon.

Those who succeeded in climbing the wall today are often regarded as "Real heroes", from this we should realize the difficulty in climbing the wall, and can imagine how difficult it is to build the Great Wall without modern machinery at that time.

In Beijing, the Great Wall is about 630 km long, 6 sections of the Great Wall have been opened to visitors. There are Badaling Section, Juyongguan Section, Simatai Section, Mutianyu Section, Jinshanling Section and Gubeikou Section.

History of the Great Wall

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The construction of the Great Wall started during the Warring States Period on 7th century B.C, it had a history of more than 2,500 years. At that time, it was the Warring States Period, Many dukedoms built walls in Central China to protect themselves from each other and from the "barbarians", the walls were built in the states of Qi, Chu, Yan, Han, Zhao, Wei and Qin. These seven dukedoms conquered many other small states and became "the Seven Most Powerful States in the Warring States Period".

When Qin Shihuang, the first emperor in Chinese history, unified China and established the first centralised feudal state in China, he ordered that the northern sections of the Walls built by different dukedoms be linked up and put together into one defensive bulwark. Emperor Qin Shihuang sent general Meng Tian with an army of 300,000 forced labourers for the mission and built part of the new wall. That was the Qin Great Wall-From Lintao in Gansu Province in the west to Liaodong in the east.