How long is it?
The Great Wall is a treasure of Chinese civilization and one of the world's cultural heritage. It is also a building as famous as Mount Tai, the "national mountain" of our country, and the pyramids of Egypt. It is also a miracle of mankind. More than 2,000 years ago, it was the working people who built the Great Wall with their flesh and blood. The Great Wall is the crystallization of the wisdom of the ancient Chinese people and a symbol of the Chinese nation.
How long is the Great Wall?
Which provinces are the Great Walls distributed in our country in the past? The State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced that the total length of the Great Walls in our country surveyed and identified is 21,196.18 kilometers, distributed in 15 provinces and regions across the country, including Beijing. 43,721 Great Wall heritage sites have been identified; this is the first time the State Administration of Cultural Heritage has released data on the Great Walls in past dynasties. The Great Wall is 21,196.18 kilometers long.
The Great Wall is a collective name for the vast military projects built in ancient China at different times to resist the invasion of the nomadic tribal alliance in northern Saibei. The Great Wall extends for tens of thousands of miles east and west, so it is also known as the Great Wall of Miles. The surviving remains of the Great Wall are mainly the Ming Great Wall, which was built in the 14th century, starting from Jiayuguan in the west and Hushan in Liaodong in the east. According to the data released by the State Administration of Cultural Heritage in 2012, the total length of the Great Wall of China in the past dynasties is 21,196.18 kilometers; while the State Administration of Cultural Heritage released the survey data of the Ming Great Wall in 2009, the total length of the Ming Great Wall in China is 8851.8 kilometers. The Great Wall is a great miracle created by the working people of our country in ancient times and is a witness to China's long history. It is regarded as a symbol of China by the world together with Tiananmen Square and
China's Great Wall of Miles is the world's longest-built and largest national military defense project in the era of cold weapons warfare. It embodies the blood, sweat and wisdom of our ancestors and is a symbol and pride of the Chinese nation.
It is said that astronauts flying into space once reported that there were only two human projects that could be recognized from observing the earth from the distant moon, and one of them was the Great Wall of China. The magnificent Great Wall of Miles is one of the wonders of the world created by the ancient Chinese people and a monument in the history of human civilization. According to historical records, since the Warring States Period, more than 20 vassal states and feudal dynasties have built the Great Wall. The first was Chu, which began to build the Great Wall to defend against nomadic or enemy nations in the north. Later, Qi, Yan, Wei, Zhao, Qin and other countries also began to build their own Great Wall for the same purpose. After Qin unified the six kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang sent the famous general Meng Tian to expel the Xiongnu in the north, connecting the Great Wall of various countries, from Yao in the west to Liaodong in the east, stretching for more than 10,000 miles, so it was called the Great Wall of Miles. This is the origin of the name "Great Wall of Miles". But what we see today is mainly the Ming Great Wall.
Qin Shi Huang used 300,000 people to build the Great Wall, creating a miracle in the history of human architecture. The construction of the Great Wall objectively played a positive role in preventing the Xiongnu from invading the south and protecting the economic and cultural development of the Central Plains. Mr. Sun Yat-sen once commented: "Although the first emperor had no way, the merits of the Great Wall were in later generations, and it was actually the Great Yu who controlled the water."
The Han Dynasty continued to build the Great Wall. From Emperor Wen to Emperor Xuan, a nearly 10,000-kilometer-long line was built from Dawan Ershi City in the west to the north bank of Heilongjiang in the east. Half of the distance of the ancient Silk Road was along this Great Wall, which is the longest Great Wall in history. In the Ming Dynasty, in order to defend against the intrusion of the Tartar and Waxian tribes, the construction of the Great Wall was never interrupted. From Hongwu to Wanli, 20 large-scale constructions were completed during this period, and a 6,350-kilometer-long side wall was built from Jiayuguan in Gansu in the west to Tiger Mountain in Liaodong in the east. (But according to reports, the pedometer of a Chinese person who walked the entire length of the Great Wall in 1990 showed that it was 6,700 kilometers.) The Great Wall has extremely high tourism value and historical and cultural significance. Now after careful development and restoration, Shanhaiguan, Juyongguan Badaling, Simatai, Mutianyu, Jiayuguan and other places have become well-known tourist attractions at home and abroad. Looking high and far, with ancient Huaiyou, the golden iron horse of the ancient battlefield seems to be in front of you. Today, the Great Wall, the pyramids of Egypt, the Colosseum of Rome, and the Leaning Tower of Pisa in Italy are equally known as the Seven Wonders of the World. They are monuments and wisdom crystallization of the ancient culture of the Chinese nation, symbolizing the blood and national spirit of the Chinese nation.
Wanli Great Wall alias
For more than two thousand years, Chinese dynasties have used different names when building and documenting the Great Wall.
Fang Cheng: It was only used in the State of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period.
Graben, long graben, city graben, wall graben: these terms are basically common to each other, and almost all of them were used from the Warring States period until the Ming Dynasty.
Saiyuan, Saiyuan, Saiwei: There are many places where the word "Saiyuan" is used in historical books. Generally, there are two meanings: one is to indicate that the pass is narrow, and the other is to indicate the Great Wall.
Great Wall Barrier, Great Wall Pavilion Barrier, Great Wall Barrier: These terms are common in history books.
Trench, trench: is a form of the Great Wall construction, and the trench is the special word of the Great Wall in Jin Dynasty.
Side wall, side wall: The Great Wall is called "side", mainly in the Ming Dynasty. In ancient China, the areas between the Central Plains and ethnic minorities were mostly called "side walls", and the Great Wall built in this area was called "side walls" or "side walls" in the Ming Dynasty.
