| General
Facts of Great-Wall : |
The Great Wall is on average eight to ten meters high and five
meters wide. While it is said that five horses could canter abreast
along the ramparts, the main defenders were definitely foot soldiers
and expert bowmen housed in garrison towns located at strategic
intervals or on the fortifications themselves...>>more |
| Amazing
Facts of Great-Wall : |
The first section of the Great Wall took 10 years to build -
at the rate of about one mile per day.At its peak the Ming Wall
contained thousands of individual forts and towers and was guarded
by more than a million men...>>
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| Architecture
of Great-Wall : |
| Defence work of the Great Wall during the Ming Dynasty was divided
into architectures of differing grades, classes, forms and uses, such
as fortressed town, castle, garrison city, mountain pass city, stronghold
city, city wall, watch tower, wall tower and furnace mound (for making
smoke as signal in case of invasion)...>>more
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Constructions
of Great-Wall : |
| The Great Wall depicts beautiful curves of mountains ridges meandering
along high mountains and deep valleys with its hundreds of passes
and fortified castles. It is really magnificent. However, mountains,
ravines, grasslands and deserts along the course charted out for the
wall made construction a challenging task.
The government spared no money or manpower to build or rebuild
the Great Wall, using the insurmountable barriers, deep moats and
fortified castles of the wall to defend itself. The Ming period
saw the creation of a sophisticated defense system along the wall
embracing garrison towns, garrison posts, passes, blockhouses, additional
wall structures, watchtowers and beacon towers, each given a different
status and designed mission.
The Labor Force
The labor force used by various dynasties for the construction of
the walls was no less impressive.
Design for the Fortifications
The Great Wall had three major components: passes,
signal towers (beacons),watch-tower
and walls.
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Secrets
of Great-Wall Constructions:
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The Great Wall depicts beautiful curves of mountains ridges meandering
along high mountains and deep valleys with its hundreds of passes
and fortified castles. It is really magnificent. However, mountains,
ravines, grasslands and deserts along the course charted out for
the wall made construction a challenging task.
The government spared no money or manpower to build or rebuild
the Great Wall, using the insurmountable barriers, deep moats and
fortified castles of the wall to defend itself. The Ming period
saw the creation of a sophisticated defense system along the wall
embracing garrison towns, garrison posts, passes, blockhouses, additional
wall structures, watchtowers and beacon towers, each given a different
status and designed mission.
Secrets of Construction
of Qin Wall:As the wall inched across the Chinese wilderness,
its builders were forced to rely upon local materials...
,Secrets of Construction
of Han Wall: In the arid Gobi Desert, the poor quality of the
sandy soil and the lack of brick and stone, forced Han builders
to resort to an ancient and painstaking method of wall construction...
Secrets of Construction
of Ming Wall: The Ming period pushed wall-building technologies
to the limit...
MengjiangnuThe story of "Mengjiangnu
Crying Over the Great Wall" is well known in China, and always
on the lips of people when people go to visit the Great Wall.The
story happened during the Qin Dynasty when Emperor Qin Shihuang
forced many conscripted laborers in building up the Great Wall.
Mengjiangnu's husband was seized to build the Great Wall as a forced
labor not long after they got married.
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