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Tourist Attraction Great Wall Of China
hen you said that you Shi Huang Ti, who was the first
have been to China as a emperor of China. The wall is
sight seeing tourist, called "Wan-Li Qang-Qeng" in
invariably people will ask you Chinese when translated literally
whether you have you visited The means 10,000 li long wall which
Great Wall Of China. is equivalent to about 5,000 km
or 2,272 miles long.
Why are people so obsessed with
this ancient fortress monument? The Great Wall Of China was
Well, as someone who have taken a constructed as a military
sightseeing tour of the Great fortification against intrusion
Wall, I can sum it up in one by invading normadic ancient
word. The Great Wall of China is tribes. The Chinese people at
awesome! that time called these tribes
barbarians since the Chinese
I was awestruck by the royalties were living in
spectacular scenery and its sprawling palaces and these
courageous history. This gigantic tribes were living in tents.
monument is considered by many
people as one of the wonders of After the emperor Qin unified
the world. Any tourist traveling China in 214 BC, he ordered the
to China must definitely make construction of the wall. It took
visit the Chinese tourist more than a decade to construct
attraction. and the great wall stretched from
Lintao in the eastern part of
The Great Wall of China is over Gansu province in the west to
2,000 years old and it is a Liaodong in Jilin province in the
monument rich in history. It was east. The wall not only served as
first conceived and constructed a defensive bastien against
by Qin Shi Huang or also known as invaders in the northern parts of
China, it is also a symbol of the Han Wall are still preserved
power for the proud emperor. in Dunhuang, Yumen and Yangguan
districts and provinces. There is
From the Qin Dynasty onwards, also a report that more ruins of
Xiongnu (translated from Chinese the Han Wall have recently been
as fierce anger), which was an discovered near Lopnur in
ancient tribe that roamed Xinjiang province.
Northern China, frequently make
incursions and plunder towns and The present day Great Wall Of
villages along the northern China in Beijing is mainly the
border. remains from the Ming Dynasty
era. During this golden era of
During the Han Dynasty in and Chinese culture, bricks and
around 121 BC, emperor Han Wu Di, granite were used when the
ordered three military workers laid the foundation of
expeditions to repel and quash the wall. Sophisticated designs
the Xiongnu tribe. The military and passes were also constructed
expeditions successfully pushed in places of strategic military
the Xiongnu tribe into the far importance.
north of the Gobi desert, which
is a tundra. To further empower the military's
control of China's northern
In order to secure the safety of frontiers, the Ming Dynasty
the Hexi Corridor (now Gansu government divided the Great Wall
province), the emperor also into nine zones and placed each
ordered the construction of the zone under the command and
extension of the Great Wall control of a Zhen, which is a
westward into the Hexi Corridor military garrison headquarter.
and Xinjiang region. The ruins of
the tower beacons and debris of The Ming Wall begins at Yalujiang
River in what is now in north in the end were able to
Heilongjiang province, through advance and conquer China in
Liaoning, Hebei, Inner Mongolia, succeeding dynasties such as
Shanxi, Shaanxi, Ningxia Mongolians (Yuan Dynasty,
provinces, to Gansu reaching a 1271-1368) and the Manchus (Qing
length of about 12,700 li (about Dynasty, 1644-1911) did.
5,200 km or 2,400 miles).
With such splendidly rich history
Although The Great Wall served and panoramic views, is it any
succeeding dynasties very well wonder why the Great Wall Of
for a few hundred years as a China is one of the most visited
defence bastion against invading tourist attraction in the world?
forces, the invaders from the
About the Author:
Chris Chew is a frequent traveler at China vacation holiday and Thailand Tourist Guide.
Published At: www.Isnare.com
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