The Great Wall is the most magnificent ancient Chinese military fortifications and one the world’s longest construction in the history of architecture.
The Great Wall, stretching over 5,000 km. Signal towers on top of the mountain were mainly for transmitting military signals, detection of traces of the enemies.
Construction of the Great Wall dates back to periods of “Spring and Autumn” and “Warring”, it lasted 200 years until the end of the Ming Dynasty.
Most people tend to think that the Great Wall was a product of defensive wars, thus its role ought to have been most closely related to battles and blood shedding.
For over 200 years of the Ming Dynasty did not stop building the wall, the technique of its construction has reached a high level, especially when you consider that is built on steep slopes, deep canyons and deserts wild.
In 1961, the Chinese government has taken the Great Wall as the ancient monument under state protection, and then were restored sections of the Great Wall at Badaling, Shanhaiguan and Jiayuguan in.
In 1987, the Great Wall of China, which knows no equal in the history of world architecture, was entered in the UNESCO list of World Cultural and Natural Heritage, becoming the common heritage of mankind.
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