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• 1.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 1
• It's a thousand times longer than any monument ever built. Started before the Birth of Christ, it was still being built when Columbus sailed to Americ...
• 2.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 2
• Often, the only clue he has, is from some ancient text. And it is up to him to puzzle out the arcane references and make them fit the modern landscape...
• 3.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 3
• Throughout their long history, the Chinese have been farmers. If you are committed to your land, you stay put and accumulate possessions--land, livest...
• 4.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 4
• These aren't miniatures, they are life-size. So far, the Chinese have only dug up 10% of the site. And already thousands of warriors and some 10,000 w...
• 5.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 5
• In the heart of a harsh winter, Meng Jiangnu(孟姜女) decided to visit her husband who had been sent to work on the construction of the wall. Bringing ...
• 6.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 6
• It is a staggering 2,700 miles longer than the first Great Wall of the Emperor Qin. There is no wood, water or stone in the desert. But the Han manage...
• 7.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 7
• And many never returned home, ending up in graveyards like this one. Large tombs for generals, small ones for the soldiers, and all of them died defen...
• 8.The Great Wall 万里长城 - 8
• So when they left the sheltering walls of Dunhuang(敦煌), heading for the desert that local people referred to as "go in and you will not come out". T...
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• The Tang(唐) armies controlled vast areas on both sides of the Great Wall. So it was no longer needed as a defense and it fell into ruin. To maintain ...
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• In summer, dried-up river valleys offered easy invasion routes for horsemen bent on sacking the rich Chinese towns of the plains. And this is why thes...