In the north of China， there lies a 6，700-kilometer-long (4，161-mile-long)ancient wall. Now well-known as the Great Wall of China， it starts at theJiayuguan Pass of Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Pass ofHebei Province in the east. As one of the Eight Wonders in the world， the GreatWall of China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture.
Lots of beautiful legends and stories about the Great Wall took placefollowing along the construction， and since that time these stories have spreadaround the country. Those that happened during construction are abundant， suchas Meng Jiangnu‘s story and the legend of the Jiayuguan Pass. Meng Jiangnu‘sstory is the most famous and widely spread of all the legends about the GreatWall. The story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC).
It tells of how Meng Jiangnu‘s bitter weeping made a section of the GreatWall collapse. Meng Jiangnu‘s husband Fan Qiliang was caught by federalofficials and sent to build the Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu heard nothing from himafter his departure， so she set out to look for him. Unfortunately， by the timeshe reached the great wall， she discovered that her husband had already died.Hearing the bad news， she cried her heart out. Her howl caused the collapse of apart of the Great Wall. This story indicates that the Great Wall is theproduction of tens of thousands of Chinese commoners.
Another legend about the Jiayuguan Pass tells of a workman named Yi Kaizhanin the Ming Dynasty (1368BC-1644BC) who was proficient in arithmetic. Hecalculated that it would need 99，999 bricks to build the Jiayuguan Pass. Thesupervisor did not believe him and said if they miscalculated by even onebrick，then all the workmen would be punished to do hard work for threeyears.
After the completion of the project，one brick was left behind the Xiwongcity gate. The supervisor was happy at the sight of the brick and ready topunish them. However Yi Kaizhan said with deliberation that the brick was putthere by a supernatural being to fix the wall. A tiny move would cause thecollapse of the wall. Therefore the brick was kept there and never moved. It canstill be found there today on the tower of the Jiayuguan Pass.
In addition to the above-mentioned stories about the construction of theGreat Wall，there are also plenty of stories about current scenic spots. A famousone is the legend of the Beacon Tower. This story happened during the WesternZhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC). King You had a queen named Bao Si，who wasvery pretty. King You liked her very much， however Bao Si never smiled.
An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower on fire wouldfrighten the King‘s subjects， and might make the queen smile. King You liked theidea. The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of the chaos.Later enemies invaded Western Zhou， King You set the beacon tower on fire to askfor help. No subjects came to help because they had been fooled once before.Thus， King Zhou was killed by the enemy and Western Zhou came to an end.
Beautiful stories and legends about the Great Wall help to keep aliveChinese history and culture. In each dynasty after the building of the GreatWall， many more stories were created and spread.
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Today, I am a tour guide YanZiRu trip to the Great Wall by me to servicefor you, dont hesitate to ask have any requirements and problems on theroad.
This is today we want to climb the Great Wall. It is like a dragon, windingbetween mountains. It has a long history, was built during the warring statesperiod, enormous project, east of shanhaiguan, west to jiayuguan, the totallength of more than thirteen thousand. Is the history of the great wonders ofthe world.
Ok, now we began to climb the Great Wall. The Great Wall is made of stoneand square brick. Each piece of stone has two or three one thousand catties,because there were no trains, cars, no crane, only by thousands of workingpeoples shoulders and hands carried on step by step the steep mountain peaks;By thousands of lives and sweat to build. You see, on our feet square brick,every piece of square brick, so smooth, on the top of the wall like a broadroad, WuLiuPi mark in parallel.
Do you know why the Great Wall can resist the enemys invasion? Because itis not only strong, broad, more important is: it has scanned, nozzle and thebeacon tower. Scanned and square nozzle on the wall outside more than two metershigh on the rows of buttress, it is to observe the situation of the enemy, thesecond is to enemy fire. Every 300 meters, there is a square ChengTai, calledbeacon tower, one is used for station troops fortress, 2 it is with fire.
Ok, my dear visitors, here about the introduction of the Great Wall is, asthe saying goes: "is not a true man unless he comes to the Great Wall". Pleaseadhere to climb on the Great Wall is the most high-end, dont draw pictures onthe stone carving, speak civilization health. I wish you a happy happy play.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
We will visit the symbol of Chinas civilization-the Great Wall. It is oneof the famous, grand and splendid ancient construction wonders in the world. Itis just like a giant dragon in the northern part of China.
Construction of the Great Wall first began in the seventh century BC. Atthat time it was also called Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. The firstwall that appeared in China was built by Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Chu. At thattime, the kingdoms in order to defend themselves against the infringing enemyfrom own territories for self-protection. These high walls were the primitivetype of the present day Great Wall.
In Chinese history, large-scale construction of the Great Wall wasconcentrated in three dynasties, they are Qin, Han and Ming dynasties.
In 221BC, Qin Shihuang unified China; he decided to link up all theseparated high walls built by different kingdoms into the Great Wall. The QinGreat Wall started from Lintao, Gansu Province in the west and ended inLiaodong, Liaoning Province in the east, over 500 kilometers long.
The second large-scale construction on the Great Wall was carried outduring the Han Dynasty. Apart from maintaining and utilizing the Qin Great Wall,they built an outer Great Wall about 500 kilometers to the north of the QinGreat Wall in order to ward off the Huns. They also had the Great Wall ectendedtowards the west for another 5000 kilometers long. The Han Great Wall startedfrom Liaodong in the east to the Lop Nur Lake in Xinjiang Uygur AutonomousRegion, with a total length of 10,000 kilometers.
The last large-scale project on the Great wall was carried out in the MingDynasty. That is because the dethroned Mongol Yuan ruler still had the remnantforces and often made counterattack to Beijing, as well as the threats of newlyraised ethnic tribe of “Nv Zhen”。 So started from the first year after ZhuYuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty. The whole project took more than 200years to complete. The total lenth of the Ming Great Wall was more than 6,000kilometers from Yalu River in Liaoning Province in the east to Jiayuguan Pass inGansu Province in the west. It passes nine cities, provinces and autonomousregions of Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Ningxia andGansu.
The Great Wall, we see today, in Beijing is mainly the Ming Grest Wall.There was a 20-kilometer long valley named “Nankou, Juyongguan, Shangguan andBadaling”。 Juyongguan Pass was one of the important passes along the valley, andalso one of the most famous passes of the Great Wall. The name “Juyong” inChinese means “a place of poor laborers”。
Today we will visit the Badaling Great Wall, it is about 75 kilometersnorthwest of Beijing, and it is the best-preserved part of the Great Wall. Badameans in English “convenient transportation to all directions”。 It used to bemore important than Juyong Pass in the defence of Beijing. The Badaling GreatWall averages 7.8 meters high, 6.5meters wide at its base, and 5.8 meters wideon the top, wide enough for five horses or ten soldiers walking abreast on thewall.
The highest point at Badaling is about 800-1,000 meters above the sealevel. Here at Badaling section is with single side battlements while theparapet is on the other side. The outer of the wall is topped with crenellatedbattlements, which is about 2 meters high and with a square sized hole below forshouting arrows and also for keeping a watch over the enemy, while the parapetsabout 1 meter high is on the inner side.
Buildings on both sides of the wall at the commanding points, the top ofthe mountains or the turns are beacon towers. The beacon towers were used formakong signal of warning messages when the enemy was sighted. Fires were lit onthe top of the beacon towers at night and the smoke signals in daytime. And thenumber of the fire and smoke signals could signify the number of invadingenemies.
The watch-towers are lovated at regular intervals on the Great Wall forwatching over the invading enemy, and it is usually of two stories. The groundfloor was used to store weapons and had a number of window for archers. Theupper floor has battlements, peep-holes and appertures for archers.
Today the Great Wall has lost its signifivance in defending the enemy, butin ancient times the Great Wall was not noly a strong defensive project but alsoplayed a very important role in military, economy and served as a link inpromoting harmonious relationship among the nationalities for the whole country.Today, the Great Wall has become a famous tourist attraction in the world.
Everybody is good! My name is zhang, you can call me a guide. Today I bringyou to visit verve magnificent Great Wall.
MAO zedong once said: "not a true man unless he comes to the Great Wall".Why dont we go on a tour today? Good! We can eat when men now! On the formersee head, after the end of the Great Wall.
About the Great Wall, there is a moving story, legend meng jiangnushusband was caught to build the Great Wall, the meng jiangnu then struggling tofind her husband, however, meng jiangnu I get to know and her husband were deadtired at the foot of the Great Wall. After hearing the news, meng jiangnu cryfor three days and three nights at the foot of the Great Wall, just listen to"bang" a loud walls down, to see the bodies of her husband!
Now that we have stood on the badaling, stepping at the foot of the squarebrick, holding the stone on the wall, naturally think of the Great Wall isbuilt. Tourists, look at these countless stone alone, with 2 - one thousandcatties a enough at that time, there was also no crane, crane, forklift, rely onthe shoulder, countless hands, step by step, carry on the steep mountains.
Well, the beauty of the Great Wall I said also said not over, now pleaseenjoy the beautiful scenery of the Great Wall!
In the north of China， there lies a 6，700-kilometer-long (4，161-mile-long)ancient wall. Now well-known as the Great Wall of China， it starts at theJiayuguan Paof Gansu Province in the west and ends at the Shanhaiguan Paof HebeiProvince in the east. As one of the Eight Wonders in the world， the Great Wallof China has become the symbol of the Chinese nation and its culture.
Lots of beautiful legends and stories about the Great Wall took placefollowing along the construction， and since that time these stories have spreadaround the country. Those that happened during construction are abundant， suchas Meng Jiangnu‘s story and the legend of the Jiayuguan Pass. Meng Jiangnu‘sstory is the most famous and widely spread of all the legends about the GreatWall. The story happened during the Qin Dynasty (221BC-206BC). It tells of howMeng Jiangnu‘s bitter weeping made a section of the Great Wall collapse. MengJiangnu‘s husband Fan Qiliang was caught by federal officials and sent to buildthe Great Wall. Meng Jiangnu heard nothing from him after his departure， so sheset out to look for him. Unfortunately， by the time she reached the great wall，she discovered that her husband had already died. Hearing the bad news， shecried her heart out. Her howl caused the collapse of a part of the Great Wall.This story indicates that the Great Wall is the production of tens of thousandsof Chinese commoners.
htmlAnother legend about the Jiayuguan Patells of a workman named YiKaizhan in the Ming Dynasty (1368BC-1644BC) who was proficient in arithmetic. Hecalculated that it would need 99，999 bricks to build the Jiayuguan Pass. Thesupervisor did not believe him and said if they miscalculated by even one brick，then all the workmen would be punished to do hard work for three years. Afterthe completion of the project， one brick was left behind the Xiwong city gate.The supervisor was happy at the sight of the brick and ready to punish them.However Yi Kaizhan said with deliberation that the brick was put there by asupernatural being to fix the wall. A tiny move would cause the collapse of thewall. Therefore the brick was kept there and never moved. It can still be foundthere today on the tower of the Jiayuguan Pass.
In addition to the above-mentioned stories about the construction of theGreat Wall， there are also plenty of stories about current scenic spots. Afamous one is the legend of the Beacon Tower. This story happened during theWestern Zhou Dynasty (11th century BC-711 BC). King You had a queen named BaoSi， who was very pretty. King You liked her very much， however Bao Si neversmiled. An official gave a suggestion that setting the beacon tower on firewould frighten the King‘s subjects， and might make the queen smile. King Youliked the idea. The subjects were fooled and Bao Si smiled at the sight of thechaos. Later enemies invaded Western Zhou， King You set the beacon tower on fireto ask for help. No subjects came to help because they had been fooled oncebefore. Thus， King Zhou was killed by the enemy and Western Zhou came to anend.
Beautiful stories and legends about the Great Wall help to keep aliveChinese history and culture. In each dynasty after the building of the GreatWall， many more stories were created and spread.