The big Wall

Chinese Wall

On 26 January 2007 announced that the Chinese wall was chosen as one of the winners in the list of New Seven Wonders of the Modern World.

The wall was designated a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1987. Much of the Great Wall is reputed to be the largest cemetery in the world. Approximately 10 million workers were killed during the construcción.4 not buried in the wall itself, but nearby.



In the seventh and fourth centuries BC, that is, during periods of Spring and Autumn and Warring, feudal principalities built defensive walls at their respective borders in order to protect themselves from attacks by the Huns, one of the tribes nomads in northern China, as well as the feudal principalities neighbors. After the unification of all China, in the third a.n.e. century, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty united the isolated retire existing walls in the north and turning on the Great Wall of Ten Thousand Li. Subsequently, the wall was repaired and rebuilt by numerous dynasties. Badaling, a section of the wall, presently attending many tourists, was rebuilt during the Ming Dynasty based on the original work.

The Great Wall, which has a total length of over 6,700 km, runs from Shanhaiguan in the east to Jiayuguan in the west. Goes through six provinces and autonomous regions and municipality in Northern China: Hebei, Beijing, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Shaanxi and Gansu. If a wall one meter thick and five meters high with bricks, stones and land of the Great Wall was up, that wall would provide more of a world tour.

The Great Wall is composed of walls, steps, watchtowers and towers. In steps, usually raised on major roadways and protected by several walls, the imperial army acantonaba. The Juyongguan step, a strategic position Badaling sector is an important point of the wall. This work has seven to eight meters high and a base of 5 to 6chch2.JPG (10063 bytes) meters wide. The battlements of the wall are almost two meters high, and there are loopholes for shooting arrows and other projectiles. In the nearby peaks watchtowers and signal towers, which form a network of military communication rise. The Badaling sector is now a major tourist attraction center for its beauty. There are also other interesting sectors in Jinshanling, Mutianyu, Simatai and Gubeikou. Other popular sites are known and Step Huangya in Tianjin, Shanhaiguan Pass in Hebei and Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province is.

After liberation, the popular government has repaired and restored several sections of the Great Wall in order to remain its original aspect of grandeur and grandiosity. The Great Wall is now a bridge linking the Chinese people with other countries and regions.