How to get to the Great Wall from Beijing by bus?

Option 1: From Beijing Railway Station, you can take Metro Line 2 directly to Qianmen Station. Take the tourist bus 1 at the front door. This line is called "Beijing Tourist Line 1" and has a total length of 74 kilometers. It runs every half hour, and it takes about 2.5 hours to reach the Great Wall.

Option 2: From Beijing Railway Station, you can take Line 2 and get off at Jishuitan Station. After getting off the bus, you can walk eastward to the north side of Deshengmen Arrow Tower and take bus No.877. ? 877 is a special tourist line. If you want to go to the Great Wall, sit at the end. After getting off the bus, you can walk to the Great Wall with people, and the walking distance is about 800 meters.

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The history of the construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the famous allusion "bonfire drama princes" occurred in Haojing, the capital (now Xi 'an, Shaanxi) originated from this. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, countries competed for hegemony and defended each other, and the construction of the Great Wall entered its first climax, but the construction length at this time was relatively short. After Qin destroyed the six countries and unified the world, Qin Shihuang connected and repaired the Great Wall of the Warring States Period, which was called the Great Wall of Wan Li.

The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty to overhaul the Great Wall, and most of the Great Wall seen by people today was built at this time.

Great Wall resources are mainly distributed in Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Shandong, Henan, Qinghai, Ningxia, Xinjiang and other provinces, autonomous regions and municipalities. Among them, the length of Hebei province is more than 2000 kilometers, and the length of Shaanxi province is 1838 kilometers.

According to the results of the national Great Wall resources survey conducted by cultural relics and surveying and mapping departments, the total length of the Great Wall in Ming Dynasty was 885 1.8km, and it was more than 1 1,000 km in Qin and Han Dynasties and its early period, and the total length was more than 2 1 1,000 km.