Great
Wall of China (in Chinese: 万里长城) is a wall extends along the northern
and northwestern borders of China (PRC), Chnhuangtao of the Gulf of
Bohai Sea (Yellow Sea) in the east to Gautay area in Gansu province in
the west. Another wall was built to the south, extending from the Beijing area to Handen. And
the length of the Great Wall of China is the 2400 Clio meters, and the
Great Wall of China is one of the most important world heritage sites
and was named one of the wonders of the new seven in the world in a
survey of international opinion in 2007. Great Wall of China has become
the most important things that has to be seen for visitors and tourists.
where people flock to it from all over the world every year. The
Great Wall of China is a legitimate defensive militarily old and rarely
prominent in the architectural history of the human. It
is a symbol of the Chinese nation, not only the intelligence of the
ancestors of the Chinese show, but embodies the effort have made the
sweat and blood. He is well-known allover the world as of his great history, his protection and powerfulness. It began building the Great Wall of China during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States era before more than 2,000 years.The
Great Wall of China is not only a wall, it is a defensive integrated
project consists of defensive walls and watchtowers and strategic
corridors and the barracks of soldiers and warning towers and other
defense installations. And it controls the defensive this project integrated military leadership consists of different levels of the system. Take
Wall of China in the Ming Dynasty as an example, this was the fence,
which starts from River Aaloh east and ends at the Jia Yu Guan Pass
westward with a total length of 7,000 km is divided into nine military
administrative regions, each with a chief executive area to manage them
separately and is responsible for the repair of the fence within the
region and
restoration is also responsible for defense affairs in the region or
help neighboring military zones on defense affairs, according to the
order of the Ministry of National Defense. The number of soldiers stationed at the fence line in the Ming Dynasty was about a million troops.Great
Wall of China is going through different and complex geographical
terrain, where crosses mountains and escarpment and runs through the
desert and pass the meadows and cut rivers. So
if architectural structures and various strange also because of the
fence wall was built in the desert areas of materials made up of local
stones and a special type of willow given the paucity of rocks and
bricks. The
plateau in the yellow dust northwest regions of China, built for the
fence rammed earth or mud-brick, but it is solid and strong for at least
the strength of the wall built with rocks and bricks. The wall was built in the Ming Dynasty often of brick or rock or a mixture of brick and rock. Channel and no water is spent on top of the fence for automatically rainwater drainage and protection of the fence. In addition to the military role, the impact on the Great Wall of China is also China's economic development. The
direction of Wall of China was almost identical to the dividing line
between semi-wet and dry climate climate in China, and in fact became a
watershed between agricultural areas and Bedouin areas.
