Information on the scenery of the Great Wall

The Badaling Great Wall

The Badaling Great Wall is located in Yanqing, Beijing. It is the most representative section of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and the outpost of Juyongguan. It has an altitude of 1,015 meters and a dangerous terrain. It has always been a must for military strategists. The contested land was an important military pass in the Ming Dynasty and an important barrier for the capital Beijing. Climb up the Great Wall here and have a commanding view of the magnificent scenery of the mountains. So far, more than 300 celebrities, including Obama, Nixon, and Margaret Thatcher, have visited here. Badaling Scenic Area is famous for its magnificent landscape, complete facilities and profound cultural and historical connotations. Known in history as one of the Nine Fortresses in the World, it is the essence of the Great Wall and is uniquely representative among the Great Walls of the Ming Dynasty. Badaling Great Wall Museum is a comprehensive museum with the theme of the Great Wall, which comprehensively reflects the history, politics, military, economy and culture of the Great Wall. The Great Wall Museum of China is located outside the Badaling Pass and was completed and opened in 1994.

Mutianyu Great Wall

Mutianyu Great Wall is located in Huairou District and is one of the sixteen scenic spots in New Beijing. It is connected to the Juyongguan Great Wall to the west and Gubeikou to the east. The open 2250-meter section of the Great Wall is characterized by crenels on both sides of the Great Wall, especially the three watchtowers at Zhengguantai standing side by side. The famous Great Wall landscapes include arrow buckles, ox horn edges, and eagles flying upside down. Located at the western end of the Mutianyu Great Wall, it is the essence of the Great Wall. The Mutianyu Great Wall is a mountainous area with a vegetation coverage rate of over 90%. The Mutianyu Great Wall is equipped with the first-class cable car in the country, and has developed projects such as the Chinese Dream Stone City and the Shibid Slide, forming an organic combination of Great Wall culture, stone culture, sports, fitness and entertainment. Former British Prime Minister John Major, former US President Clinton and many other foreign heads of state visited Mutianyu. In 1992, it was rated as the best tourist destination in the world in Beijing. In 2002, it was rated as a 4A-level scenic spot.

Simatai Great Wall

Simatai Great Wall has five unique characteristics: "dangerous, dense, strange, clever and comprehensive". It is located at Gubeikou in the northeast of Miyun County, Beijing. Within the town, 120 kilometers away from Beijing. It starts from Wangjing Tower in the east and ends at Houchuankou in the west, with a total length of 5.4 kilometers and 35 watchtowers. The entire section of the Great Wall is exquisitely conceived, unique in design, novel in structure and different in shape. It can be called the essence of the Great Wall. Professor Luo Zhewen, a famous Great Wall expert, praised: The Great Wall of China is the best in the world, and the Simatai Great Wall is the best in China. The Simatai Great Wall was included in the World Heritage List in 1987 and is a national key cultural relic protection unit. It is the only ancient architectural site in my country that retains its original appearance from the Ming Dynasty.

Gubeikou Great Wall

Gubeikou Great Wall

Gubeikou Great Wall is the most complete Great Wall system in the history of the Great Wall of China. It is composed of the Great Wall of the Northern Qi Dynasty and the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, including four sections: Wohu Mountain, Panlong Mountain, Jinshanling and Simatai. Gubeikou is the Great Wall fortress between Shanhaiguan and Juyongguan. It is the throat of the Liaodong Plain and Inner Mongolia to the Central Plains. It has always been a battleground for military strategists, especially in the five dynasties of Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing. The battles for Gubeikou, large and small, have never stopped, so the role of the Great Wall has become particularly important.

Jiankou Great Wall

Jiankou Great Wall

Jiankou Great Wall is located in Badaohe Township, northwest of Huairou County, on the outskirts of Beijing, about 30 kilometers away from Huairou County and surrounded by mountains. It is very varied, and the Great Wall on the dangerous peaks and cliffs also looks more majestic and dangerous. The Jiankou Great Wall is so named because the entire section of the Great Wall winds in a W shape, resembling a bow full of arrows. The Jiankou Great Wall is one of the most famous and dangerous sections of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty. It is the most photographed section in various Great Wall albums in recent years and has always been a hot spot for Great Wall photography.

Jinshanling Great Wall

Jinshanling Great Wall

Jinshanling Great Wall is located in the Yanshan Mountains at the junction of Miyun County and Hebei Luanping County, 140 kilometers away from Beijing. It starts from Longyukou in the west and ends at Wangjing Tower in the east, with a total length of 10.5 kilometers. There are 67 enemy towers with different buildings along the line, 2 beacon towers, and 5 large and small passes. The enemy towers on the Great Wall here are densely packed, usually 50-100 meters each. The wall is based on huge rocks, 5-8 meters high, and has There are horse-blocking walls, stacked walls and barrier walls, all in various forms and with their own characteristics. It is known as "the Great Wall of China, the only beautiful mountain in Jinshan".

Shanhaiguan Great Wall

Shanhaiguan Great Wall Shanhaiguan Great Wall is where the Great Wall of China enters the sea. The Great Wall currently in Shanhaiguan is 26 kilometers long, mainly including: Laolongtou Great Wall, South Wing Great Wall, Guancheng Great Wall, North Wing Great Wall, Jiaoshan Great Wall, Sandaoguan Great Wall and Jiumenmen Great Wall. Laolongtou Great Wall is the end part of the Great Wall that enters the sea. It has a high reputation as the "Soul of China".

Shanhaiguan City consists of seven castles: Guancheng, Dongluo City, Xiluo City, South Wing City, North Wing City, Weiyuan City and Ninghai City. It is surrounded by seven castles with a length of 4769 meters, a height of 11.6 meters, The city wall is more than 10 meters thick, tall, solid and majestic. There are four city gates in the east, west, south and north, turrets in the southeast and northeast corners of the city, and a majestic bell and drum tower in the middle of the city. The entire Acropolis has a magnificent building scale and solid defense projects. Shanhaiguan is the product of the "Guardian Military System" created in the Ming Dynasty. The "field system" and reform policies of the Ming Dynasty played an important role in the consolidation and development of Shanhaiguan.

Jiayuguan Great Wall

Jiayuguan Great Wall

Jiayuguan Great Wall is the starting point of the western end of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall. It was built in the fifth year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (1372) and is currently the most complete one. Chengguan, the first pass in Hexi, is also an important stop on the Silk Road. The city gate is a complete defense system composed of inner city, outer city and moat.

The city gates we see now are mainly made of inner city, made of rammed loess and surrounded by city bricks, which is strong and majestic. The city walls at both ends of the city gate cross the Gobi, and you can feel the desolation of the lonely city in the desert. Modern Xiao Cao's poem "The Great Wall" gives a true interpretation: "The wind blows in the desert thousands of mountains away, the snow dances in Qilian in the cold June; I climb up the wall platform to discuss the Chu and Han Dynasties, and the Great Wall Jiayu sees the heroic pass" gives a true interpretation.

Dajingmen Great Wall

Dajingmen Great Wall Dajingmen Great Wall is located in the urban area of ??Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. It is the only pass in the Great Wall named after a gate. One of the four major passes of the Great Wall. The Dajingmen Great Wall was built during the Chenghua period of the Ming Dynasty. It is located between the towering East and West Taiping Mountains. It is the key pass of the Great Wall and the key to the border pass. The door wall of Dajingmen is 12 meters high, 13 meters long at the bottom and 9 meters wide. On the west side is the Xijing Gate (Xiaojing Gate) built during the Wanli Period of the Ming Dynasty. The scenic area includes the West Taiping Mountain Great Wall Park, Laiyuan Fort, Xiaojingmen, Guandi Temple, Erlang Temple, Shanshen Temple, and many other historical sites of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. It is the "first gate of the Great Wall of China".

The Great Wall, also known as the "Great Wall", is the collective name for the large-scale military projects built in ancient China at different times to resist the invasion of the nomadic tribe alliance in the north of the country.

The Great Wall was built during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and was built by King Yan, with a history of more than 2,000 years. The Great Wall that we refer to today mostly refers to the Great Wall built in the dynasty. It starts from the Yalu River in the east and ends at Jiayuguan Pass in the inland Gansu Province in the west.

The State Administration of Cultural Heritage announced in 2012 that the total length of the Great Wall in China is 21,196.18 kilometers, distributed in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Shandong, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Qinghai and 15 provinces and regions, including 43,721 Great Wall heritage sites such as Great Wall walls, trenches, individual buildings, forts and related facilities.

Geological Form

The scenery of the Great Wall is "due to the terrain, use danger to control the blockade." This is an important experience in building the Great Wall. It was affirmed by Qin Shihuang, and then Sima Qian It was written into the "Historical Records", and every subsequent dynasty built the Great Wall in accordance with this principle. Whenever a Guancheng pass is built, it is always chosen between two mountains and canyons, or at the turning point of a river, or at a place where plains and rivers must pass. This can not only control the dangerous points, but also save manpower and materials, so as to achieve the goal of "one man is responsible for the pass". , the effect of "no one can open it". Building castles or beacon towers is also chosen in dangerous places. As for building city walls, they made full use of the terrain. For example, the Great Walls at Juyongguan and Badaling were built along the backs of mountains. Some sections looked very steep from the outside of the city wall, while the inside was very gentle, making it easy to defend but difficult to attack. "The effect. In Liaoning, the Great Wall in Liaodong Town in the Ming Dynasty had a type of wall called steep mountain wall or split gable wall, which used steep cliffs and slightly chipped them to form the Great Wall. There are also some places that completely use cliffs, rivers and lakes as natural barriers, which can be said to be an ingenious workmanship. The Great Wall, as a great project, has become a precious heritage of the Chinese nation.