this is the Ming dynasty’s Great Wall
the stone dragon that has become the
image of the Great Wall of China
throughout the world
it was built in the 16th century for
much the same reason as the Han Wars to
protect the Middle Kingdom from the
northern barbarians but this gigantic
construction is made not of earth but of
baked bricks it’s more than seven meters
thick at the base that it’s battlements
reach up to 20 meters high
it curves majestically through more than
1,200 kilometers of the mountains north
of Beijing
it follows the natural line of the
mountain peaks reaching breathtaking
heights before plunging into the deepest
ravines
visitors stand speechless before this
architectural masterpiece and admire the
audacity of its builders
even while they wonder about its real
military effectiveness
but there’s little doubt about the
message this is the frontier of our
world on the other side the alien world
begins this wall is the expression of a
culture that wanted to be entirely
self-sufficient
this stone monument marks the peak of
wall building in China’s long history
almost every dynasty had built its own
wall there was never a single strategic
idea some reckon that all the walls
added together would stretch for 25,000
kilometers
many parts of many walls are still to be
discovered on the Yellow River close to
the once so hotly disputed Ordos region
there is still a few remains here and
there ruin towers and tumbling sections
of walls still rear out of the sand
over the centuries the wind and the rain
have taken their toll on the walls of
packed earth
you
the relics of the old ramparts seem to
merge with a natural landscape as if
they were never built by man hard to
believe here in the myth of the wall as
a symbol of the nation’s strength
the stone dragon that has become the
image of the Great Wall of China
throughout the world
it was built in the 16th century for
much the same reason as the Han Wars to
protect the Middle Kingdom from the
northern barbarians but this gigantic
construction is made not of earth but of
baked bricks it’s more than seven meters
thick at the base that it’s battlements
reach up to 20 meters high
it curves majestically through more than
1,200 kilometers of the mountains north
of Beijing
it follows the natural line of the
mountain peaks reaching breathtaking
heights before plunging into the deepest
ravines
visitors stand speechless before this
architectural masterpiece and admire the
audacity of its builders
even while they wonder about its real
military effectiveness
but there’s little doubt about the
message this is the frontier of our
world on the other side the alien world
begins this wall is the expression of a
culture that wanted to be entirely
self-sufficient
this stone monument marks the peak of
wall building in China’s long history
almost every dynasty had built its own
wall there was never a single strategic
idea some reckon that all the walls
added together would stretch for 25,000
kilometers
many parts of many walls are still to be
discovered on the Yellow River close to
the once so hotly disputed Ordos region
there is still a few remains here and
there ruin towers and tumbling sections
of walls still rear out of the sand
over the centuries the wind and the rain
have taken their toll on the walls of
packed earth
you
the relics of the old ramparts seem to
merge with a natural landscape as if
they were never built by man hard to
believe here in the myth of the wall as
a symbol of the nation’s strength
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