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Introduction
China's Great Wall is the world's longest architectural structure and is widely renowned as one of the seven great wonders of the world. The wall stretches 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles) from the Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province to the Shanhaiguan Pass in Hebei Province. Like a gigantic dragon, this imposing wall meanders across mountains, spans vast plains and trudges through the barren deserts of China's northern interior. This amazing marvel of engineering took over 2,000 years to build. It is acclaimed to be a most magnificent miracle created by the Chinese people demonstrating the tenacity, diligence and wisdom of the Chinese people.  Construction of the Great Wall began early in the Warring States Period (475BC-221BC) when independent small states came into existence. In order to defend their territories, long walls were built along the borders. In 221 BC, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC), toppled the former states and unified China. To protect the country from intrusion of the nomadic Hun ethnic minority in the north, earlier separate walls were joined and extended dramatically. The walls at that time began at Linyao in Gansu Province and ended in Liaoning Province, reaching a total length of over 5,000 kilometers, hence it was known as the 'Ten Thousand Li Great Wall' (Li is a unit of length used by the Chinese and one li is equal to 0.5 kilometer.).  Thereafter, the Great Wall was restored and lengthened time and time again. The later walls were not a long and frail wall but were complete fortifications with more annexes such as: castles, watch towers and beacon towers. In the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), large-scale extensions generated the 'Great Wall of Ming', the ever longest wall in the history of China. The wall that we see today is primarily the result of a restoration that took place during the Ming Dynasty. However, some sections of the Great Wall fell into ruins. Now, sections at Shanhaiguan Pass, Badaling, Simatai, Mutianyu and Jiayuguan Pass have become celebrated tourist resorts. The Badaling Great Wall, a typical section of the Great Wall, is the most famous place in China and is always thronged with visitors coming from all over the world.
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Comments and Questions
I have a few questions,
1. why is the wall so famous?
2. what is the wall made of?
3. since many men died building the wall, what was its nick name?
4.how tall is the wall?
5. how were messages sent along the wall???
4/28/2009 7:04:00 PMBill , United Kingdom
Wow, it will be a great goal. Then which section of the Great Wall would you like to start with?
4/23/2009 10:10:00 PMDuan Yulan , China
I am planning a trip to china in 2010 or 2011, which includes walking the ENTIRE Great Wall of China. Does anyone have any suggestions regarding preperation?
4/23/2009 9:30:00 AMKiyana , United States
Hi, trevor
it is hard to tell the exact time. it was many dynasties' efforts...
4/21/2009 9:48:00 PMHe Rundi , China
how long did it take to build the great wall of china
4/21/2009 11:23:00 AMtrevor , United States
thank you for all this informathion i all ways wanted to learn about it.
4/16/2009 6:04:00 PMbenguiny , Zambia
Hi Brittany,
Are you kidding? You mean walk the Badaling Great Wall in Beijing or the whole Great Wall in China? Badaling is easy for you to walk, only taking several hours; but if you mean the whole Great Wall measuring 6,700 kilometers (4,163 miles), it's hard to caculating the time. It's up to your speed! Last year, a young couple from Britain had walked the Great Wall using 167 days. :)
4/2/2009 9:15:00 PMSera , China
how long would it take you to walk the Great Wall of China?
4/2/2009 8:41:00 PMBrittany , United States
how long did it take to built the great wall of China?
3/16/2009 6:24:00 PMColleen , Ireland
Is it true that the men that built the Great Wall were burried in the wall?
3/4/2009 7:34:00 PMEmily Simmons , United States
BeijingTrip.com ( 3/4/2009 8:00:00 PM )
Hi, EmilyThanks for your question.
We should say that this kind of saying is not true. But there were indeed tens of thousands of men died during the construction work. That is why there was Meng Jiangnu's Bitter Weeping.
Thanks for visiting beijingtrip.com!
thanks a lot to you for this info
1/23/2009 8:19:00 AMToshit goyal , India
The wall might be damaged but its a beautiful wall full of treasures and secrets of its past.
11/20/2008 1:54:00 PMAshley , Georgia
thank you for this website with this great information. I appreciate your hard work making this becausae it helped with my project at school. But i need a primary source and i can't find one. Can you help me?
Please and thank you,
a lost student
11/20/2008 1:52:00 PMAshley , United States
thank you for this website I appreciate this because this halped me with my school project and it helped alot so thanks now i didnt get all of my info. so im about to get on wikipedia and then yea some one told me that wikipedia was all rong but o lioke it
11/18/2008 9:19:00 PMDestrani , United States
that wall looks damaged all right but its beautiful
11/13/2008 3:44:00 PMchasity , United States
wat the..... you are so right this does look like a damage wall
9/21/2008 8:22:00 PMmegan , Antarctica
That is awesome
9/19/2008 5:03:00 PMKerrigan , United States
this looks like a damaged wall.
8/18/2008 6:21:00 AMjoy , Australia