The emperor ordered renovaion of the Qin Great Wall and he built outer walls in further northwest China, completing the Great Wall at its longest in history – an amazing 10,000 kilometers!ĥ.
Liu Che (156 – 87BC): Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty He’s not the real initiator, but he did make a remarkable contribution in joining the seperated walls built by different states of the previous dynasties after he unified central China, and thus a continuous Great Wall was formed.Ĥ. This is the most well-known historical figure to be widely considered the initiator of the Great Wall. Qin Shi Huang (259 – 210BC): the First Emperor of China Later on, a number of states built their own walls.ģ. King Wen of Chu (689 – 675BC in reign)įrom 688 to 678BC, the King Wen ordered the building of the Fangcheng Wall to protect Chu State. The earliest record regarding the walls is the story of King You of Zhou (795 – 771BC) who abused the war beacons and fooled the vassals, just to amuse his favorite queen.Ģ. There is not enough proof to confirm who was the first king to start to build the Great Wall, but at least there were some walls and beacon towers before the end of the Western Zhou. Initiator: Kings of Western Zhou Dynasty (1046 – 771BC) The soldiers, common people and prisoners constituted the major labor force.ġ. The rulers of more than 20 ancient dynasties and states had built on a large scale their sections of the Great Wall. A day tour or a long hike along the Great Wall allows you to travel back in time to feel the thousands of years’ vicissitudes and the ethos of the ancient Kingdom of China. The well-preserved sections we see today were mainly built during the Ming Dynasty (1368 – 1644), among which the most popular are around Beijing, including Badaling, Mutianyu, Juyongguan, and Simatai. There are wall remains found in 15 provinces of China. The Great Wall's military use faded away, but now as an unparalleled architectural feat with historical significance, it is certainly the No. In the following 2,000 years, many dynasties continued to consolidate and extend the Great Wall, for not only defense, but also border trade management, imposing tariffs, and immigration control. Early in the 7th century BC, several ancient states built their own boundary walls, which were later connected by Qin Shi Huang (259 – 210BC), the First Emperor of China, and known as the '10,000-li Long Wall'. Renowned as a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1987 and one of the Seven Wonders of the Medieval World, the Great Wall of China is not just 'medieval'. This long wall, just like a gigantic dragon, winds up and down across deserts, grasslands, mountains and plateaus, stretching approximately 21,196 kilometers from west to east of China. Although named the 'wall', it is an integrated defense system including not only lofty and solid walls, but also massive signal towers, barriers, barracks, garrison stations, and fortresses along the walls, together forming an insurmountable line, for thousands of years, to protect the territories of ancient Chinese states against the nomadic tribes from the northern steppe.
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Great Wall FAQs The Great Wall of China, the largest man-made project in the world, is a series of ancient fortifications built in northern China. Chinese Names: 长城cháng chéng / 万里长城wàn lǐ cháng chéng
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