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 […]
* The Great Wall (长城, pinyin: chángchéng), also known as the Great Wall of 10,000 li (万里长城, pinyin: wànlǐ chángchéng), is included in the list of the “Seven Medieval Wonders of the World” (of course not one of the classical Seven Wonders of the World recognized by the ancient Greeks).
* The Wall was made a […]
From 770 B.C. through 476 B.C. was the Spring and Autumn Period of China. During the Period, princes that held land from the Zhou Kingdom made themselves states. Among all the 149 states, the most powerful were the Qi, Jin, Chu, Qin, Lu and Zheng States.
For the wide use of iron tools and farm cattle, […]
The Yan State was developed from a small prince. When the King Yan Zhaowang succeeded to the throne, he sought able people nationwide, collected them at hand and granted outstanding ones important positions. This gradually made Yan a strong state in the north of China.
The Yan State bordered the Qi State on the south, the […]
The Zhao State established Handan as its capital, also the present city Handan of Hebei Province. Zhao neighbored the Wei State on the west, the Yellow River and Zhanghe River on the south, the Qi State on the east separated by the Qinghe River, and the Yan State on the north separated by the Yi’shui […]