Hi I see you again...hahaha well I do not see you ...okay today our weeks topic is 7 wonders. But I jut give the one of the seven wonders in the world where it was being build in China the one of the strongest nation in the world long time ago.
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The collection of fortifications now known as "The Great Wall of China" has historically had a number of different names in both Chinese and English.
In Chinese histories, the term "Long Wall(s)" (長城, changcheng) appears in Sima Qian's Records of the Grand Historian, where it referred to both the separate great walls built between and north of the Warring States and to the more unified construction of the First Emperor. The Chinese character is a
phono-semantic compound of the "place" or "earth" radical 土 and 成, whose Old Chinese pronunciation has been reconstructed as *deŋ. It originally referred to the rampart which surrounded traditional Chinese cities and was used by extension for these walls around their respective states; today, however, it is much more often simply the Chinese word for "city".
The longer Chinese name
"Ten-Thousand-Mile Long Wall"
(萬里長城, Wanli Changcheng) came from Sima Qian's description of it in the Records, though he did not name the walls as such.
The 493 Book of Song quotes the frontier general Tan Daoji referring to "the long wall of 10,000 miles", closer to the modern name, but the name rarely features in pre-modern times otherwise. The traditional Chinese Mile (里, lǐ) was an often irregular distance that was intended to show the length of a standard village and varied with terrain but was usually standardized at distances around a third of an English mile (540 m). Since China's metrication in 1930, it has been exactly equivalent to 500 metres or 1,600 feet,which would make the wall's name describe a distance of 5,000 km (3,100 mi).
However, this use of
"ten-thousand" (wàn) is figrative in a similar manner to the Greek and English myriad and simply means "innumerable" or "immeasurable".
Because of the wall's association with the First Emperor' supposed tyranny, the Chinese dynasties after Qin usually avoided referring to their own additions to the wall by the name "Long Wall". Instead, various terms were used in medieval records, including
"frontier(s)" (塞, sāi), "rampart(s)" (垣, yuán), "barrier(s)" (障, zhàng), "the outer fortresses" (外堡, wàibǎo), and "the border wall(s)"
(t 邊牆, s 边墙, biānqiáng). Poetic and informal names for the wall included "the Purple Frontier"
(紫塞, Zǐsāi) and "the Earth Dragon" (t 土龍, s 土龙, Tǔlóng).Only during the Qing period did "Long Wall" become the catch-all term to refer to the many border walls regardless of their location or dynastic origin, equivalent to the English "Great Wall".The current English name evolved from accounts of "the Chinese wall" from early modern European travelers. By the 19th century, "The Great Wall of China" had become standard in English, French, and German, although other European languages continued to refer to it as "the Chinese wall".
Characteristics
Before the use of bricks, the Great Wall was mainly built from rammed earth, stones, and wood. During the Ming, however, bricks were heavily used in many areas of the wall, as were materials such as tiles, lime, and stone. The size and weight of the bricks made them easier to work with than earth and stone, so construction quickened. Additionally, bricks could bear more weight and endure better than rammed earth. Stone can hold under its own weight better than brick, but is more difficult to use. Consequently, stones cut in rectangular shapes were used for the foundation, inner and outer brims, and gateways of the wall.Battlements line the uppermost portion of the vast majority of the wall, with defensive gaps a little over 30 cm (12 in) tall, and about 23 cm (9.1 in) wide. From the parapets, guards could survey the surrounding land. Communication between the arm y units along the length of the Great Wall, including the ability to call reinforcements and warn garrisons of enemy movements, was of high importance. Signal towers were built upon hill tops or other high points along the wall for their visibility. Wooden gates could be used as a trap against those going through. Barracks, stables, and armories were built near the wall's inner surface.
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6 Other Important Things That You Should Know About The Great Wall Of China
Such :
-The Official Length is 21,196.18 miles.
-The Great Wall is more than 2,300 years old.
- The average height of the great wall at Badaling and Juyong Pass is 7.88 meters, and the highest place is 14 meters high.
-Nearly 1/3 of The Great Wall has disappeared without trace.
-Since 1644, when the Ming Dynasty was overthrown, no further work has been done on the Great Wall (for military purposes — some has been restored for tourism).
-In DECEMBER 1987 the Great Wall was placed on the World Heritage List by UNESCO.
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source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Wall_of_China(Great Wall of China - Wikipedia)
