Stories from a professional guide 4[How Many Great Walls? ]

Frammer — Tue, 15 May 2012 10:25:48 +0800

Along the northern China, there lays an ancient dragon outstretching his body in a region which is several hundred kilometers from North to South and several thousand kilometers from East to West to defend our ancient civilization for over two Millennia. He puts his head in the ocean, coils the body along the ridges of mountains, and extends the tail into the western desert.

2,500 years ago, to defend its border, Qi State (today’s Shandong Province) built a long wall against Jin State and Chu State, which was the earliest great wall in Chinese history.

221BC, Emperor Qin founded the first centralized feudal empire (which was 1/3 of today’s China in territory) after annexing other six ducal states and ordered to link walls of several states together to defend the northern nomads; the conceptions of the Great Wall appeared in recoded history for first time.

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Stories from a professional guide 4[How Many Great Walls? ]