China Great Wall Album

Author: Zhai Dongfeng
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Publish Date: 2002-01-01
Features: If one only looks at it from the outside, the Great Wall is just an ancient building, or an ancient military defense system. However, it contains many aspects, such as military, political, historical, cultural, geographical, architectural, ethnic, economic, and more. Every person has a different understanding of the Great Wall, and this understanding comes from their perspective and grasp of its essence. The Chinese are all familiar with the story of Qin Shi Huang building the Great Wall, but in fact, people had already been building the Great Wall long before Qin Shi Huang. The scale of the construction was not as large as it was during his time, so it is less known. A scholar who studied the Great Wall summarized it in two sentences: "More than 2,000 years from top to bottom, over 10,000 miles from east to west," meaning that from the beginning of building the Great Wall to the very end, it took over 2,000 years, and the total length of the Great Wall built over these two thousand years exceeds 10,000 miles. Over these 2,000 years, countless heroic historical dramas have been played out at the foot of the Great Wall. There were not only wars of life and death between ethnic groups but also peaceful coexistence among brothers. However, whether it was war or peace, the Great Wall has always been a bond connecting the people living on both sides of it. There is an ancient Chinese saying: "United we stand." Today, when we look back at the Great Wall, can we not also say: The Great Wall, the city of united will of the Chinese nation!