Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China is the oldest building of the Chinese people, which underlines the power of this country. It was built about 2 thousand years ago to preserve the integrity of the empire's borders, as well as to protect agricultural land from enemy raids. Its main materials were entire forests of trees, mountains of stones, as well as earth.

The wall was built on the third attempt over the course of 2,700 years. All this time, prisoners of war, peasants, and prisoners worked here. Not a few people died building these huge walls, the bodies of which were immured in the place of backbreaking labor. That is why the Chinese Wall is also popularly known as the "Wailing Wall." The dimensions of these huge walls range from 6 to 10 meters high and from 5 to 6.5 meters wide. There is no single version about the length of this building, but we can confidently say that it stretches for at least 5,000 km. The entire wall is divided into three sections, 10,000 li (5,000 km) long, which were built at different times by different rulers. There are sections of the wall where observation decks, towers, and towers were erected, which, if necessary, with the help of fire and smoke, signaled the alarm at different times of the day. It was not so easy to find yourself in the middle of the country. To do this, inevitably, it was necessary to go through the main gate, which was locked as soon as it got dark and did not open until dawn, whoever it was.

There are many legends about the Great Wall of China, as it should be. One of them says: a girl and a guy got married, and immediately after the wedding, her husband was sent to a large wall construction site. The husband, whose name was Meng Jiannui, had not returned to his home after three years, where his beloved was waiting for him. His wife gathers her things and goes to him to see him and bring delicious food and warm clothes. But then she finds out that her lover died from hard work, and his body is under the heavy stone foundations of the wall. The young girl burst into tears and, suddenly, the huge section of the building where Meng Jiannui lay collapsed. In their beliefs, the Chinese perpetuated the memory of the backbreaking work of the people who were engaged in the construction of the wall.

Now, at the entrance of the restored section of the wall, you can see the inscription, which was applied by Mao Tse Tung himself, which translates to the following: "If you haven't been to the Great Wall of China, you're not a real Chinese."

Millions of tourists come from all over the world every year to see the Great Wall of China with their own eyes, which in the past easily performed its functions. This mighty structure simply surpasses all expectations of travelers. It is staggering today, despite the fact that about 40 kilometers of the building have been destroyed, and the height has dropped, in some places, to two meters.