A study has found the Great Wall of China has deteriorated considerably over the past 100 years, and the battlements themselves are now in need of defending.
The series of walls and battlements dates back to 550 BC and stretches from the Bohai Sea to the Gobi Desert.
A British geographer living in Beijing, William Lindesay, is […]
Listed as one of the World Heritages by UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) in 1987, the Great Wall of China, a symbolic image of China physically and mentally, is one of the best Chinese historical relics. It is considered as the backbone of the Chinese people and the soul of the Chinese […]
Chinese archaeologists have confirmed after a recent field examination that a 20-km-long section of the Great Wall in north China’s Shanxi province was built in the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
This section is located in Kelan County in northwest Shanxi and is made of stones.
Sources from local archeological departments said that about 20 km of this part […]
The modern study of the Meng Jiangnü tale begins with the birth in the 1920s of China’s folk song studies (geyaoxue) and folkloric studies (minsuxue) movements. These had their origins in the late-Qing period, but the documentation of China’s folkloric traditions was undertaken as a part of an agenda of national heritage (guogu) studies. Prominent […]
No one who has seen something of the Great Wall of China can deny that this wonder of ancient military fortification is a fantastic relic from the past that also bears witness to human endeavour. The Wall attracts hundreds of thousands of visitors each year from all parts of the world. The Great Wall is […]
A project aimed at protecting the remains of the Great Wall and enhancing the study of the world’s largest man-made structure in Inner Mongolia has kicked off.
Carried out by a non-governmental organization named The Great Wall Culture Research Center of Inner Mongolia, the project will cover a wide range of issues.
To many tourists from China […]
“The Earth looked very beautiful from space, but I did not see our Great Wall,” lamented China’s first astronaut, Yang Liwei, after 21 hours in orbit last October. The comment triggered a round of news stories that implied the structure could not be seen by any astronaut, disappointing many Chinese who thought it was the […]
BEIJING, Nov. 16 — The construction of the Great Wall continued through 6 dynasties and it was originally 1500 kilometers in length.
Ningxia used one of China’s northwestern regions and is known as the “Museum of Great Wall”. Ningxia’s northern border is shared with Inner Mongolia, home of the Mongolian tribes that frequently invaded China.
Beginning in […]
The Great Wall of China is 500 kilometers longer than the earlier recorded length, according to archeological findings released in Urumqi recently.
The new findings show that the Great Wall extends to the Lop Nur region in northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, instead of previously acknowledged Jiayu Pass in Gansu Province.
Lop Nur now is a […]
The Great Wall of China just got a little bit greater.
A new 50-mile section of China’s iconic structure has been discovered in northwestern China, centuries after being submerged by the sands that move across the arid area each year, the Chinese government said Wednesday.
The segment, on the southern slope of Helan Mountain in the Ningxia […]