5 interesting things about the Great Wall

Can see the Great Wall from the world? People built it on? Many interesting things to explore on this great work.

The Great Wall was built ever since?

The Wall of the Qin Shi Huang was the first built by pairing a small segment of the country's defeat by the Warring States period build. The goal is to prevent the attacks of the northern nomadic tribes, big threat at the time. Today, the time of the Qin Great Wall is only ruins and located farther north than the current Wall.

A longer period in the Ming Dynasty are kept intact.

After the Qin, the other kings of China continues to build new segments. The Great Wall was built from today Minh, beginning in the second half of the 14th century and ended in mid-17th century.Sorrowful as though the king Minh invested a lot for the Great Wall, this dynasty collapsed when the Minister Wu Sangui betrayed and opened the gate at Truong Thanh Son Customs influx to the Manchus.

Great Wall How long?

The name Great Wall (wall extends for thousands of miles) lamang only symbolic, because each time a different length, are constantly changing because many sections are damaged or additional construction. Today, the Great Wall 6352 km long and runs from the Bohai coast to Xinjiang.

Map of the Great Wall. Now the rest are yellow.

Great Wall built on?

The name that started listening to epic, The Great Wall was built of clay with watch towers at regular intervals. At that time, the court began to fill up people and they often attack the bandits. The number of deaths so much the school is called "the longest cemetery earth" and said data about 1 million people died during construction.

Later, the Great Wall is built of earth very easily be rain and wind or impact from damaging human. By the Ming Dynasty, the Great Wall was built of solid masonry over a long period and so much still to this day.

Building materials also vary from locality. Where available, use ice to ice covering the Great Wall, there are places still use bricks. Even glue made from rice and egg whites are also used in construction.There are more horrible rumors during the construction of walls, need to mobilize large numbers of personnel, most of them are impoverished farmers. They've built up has been urged to beat most of them died while "on duty". Determination of these people being thrown out into the work, then covered with soil.

A piece of stone such as dragons in the mist.

Are there any known point on the Great Wall?

Spotlight on thousands of miles of the Great Wall is the gate. These are densely military guard as a gateway to the land to be protected. There are many famous gate in a thousand year history of the Great Wall and below are the three most familiar names.

A gate is located on high mountains protruding.

Custom painting is the first gate in the east, and still in good condition. Here the events associated with the Manchus in China beyond the Great Wall, marking the collapse of the Ming and military role of the Great Wall. Paint the walls in the fort and 14 m thick Customs 7m high.

Nhan Mon Quan is a very famous gate in the series earn half as often seen as places demarcation between China and the Mongolian desert. Qiao Feng characters in the story "Forums" by Kim Dung has committed suicide here and be seen as a symbol of the tragic. Nhan Mon Quan name comes from the terrain makes even weak coverage terns along the flight should last through the frontier mountains.

Assuming the peak is located in The West of the Great Wall today, and also marks the beginning of the famous Silk Road. This is one of the visitors have visited.

However, where tourism is best known Bat Dat Linh, the Wall near Beijing, one of the main tourist attractions of the city. However, the Wall is being degraded because of lack of conscious visitors often graffiti to "mark".

Having looked at the Great Wall from the world?

Previously, the Chinese often proud that the Great Wall can be seen from the moon. But the astronauts had rejected this. In fact, people only see the Great Wall from a height of less than 50 km, in good weather conditions and must know the location. The Great Wall is only a few meters width and color similar to the surrounding environment, so the story seen from the moon is just speculation.

According Kenh14