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In this section i will tell you more introfuction
of great wall cultural tours, \
Day1 you take a plane to arrive Beijing, Our guide
meet you at the airport then transfer you to the hotel
Day2 drive to great wall northwest of Beijing about
60 kilometers forn the capital. one the way back visit Dinling mausleum.
in this chaper you can click to see more about great
wall introducion
The History of the Great Wall
The construction of the Great Wall started from 7th century
B. C, therefore, it had a history of more than 2,500 years. At that
time , it was the Warring States Period, many duke-doms 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 to-gether 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. The Han Great Wall started from Lop Nur in
Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region to Liaodong in the east, which stretched
about 10, 000 km (20,000 li , one Ii = 500metres) and in the following
dynasties, except the Tang Dynasty when the Great Wall was all within
the boundary of the Great Tang Empire, the Great Wall was under constant
construction and repairing. Today, you may find some remnants of the
wall scattered in the northwest of China, but notin the eastern part
of China. The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty in Chinese history when
large scale construction-of the Great Wall took place, and most of the
walls we see today were builtin the Ming Dynasty. The Ming Great Wall
stretched from the Yalu River in the east to Jiayuguan in the west,
covering a total length of more than 5,000 km. At present, however,
Shan-haiguan Pass is generally considered as the eastern end of the
Great Wall because the section from Shanhaiguan Pass to the Yalu River
was poorly built and maintained. Shan-haiguan Pass is also considered
as "the First Pass Under Heaven". The Qing rulers did not
continue building the Great Wall, they adopted a new policy by building
a Summer Resort in 325 Chengde to entertain the Mongolian and Tibetan
nobles to ensure a peaceful boundary.
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