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The truth about the wall of China

Interesting facts about the china wall & my travel experience historical wall

By Munir AhmedPublished 2 years ago 5 min read
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The truth about the wall of China
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  • Is China wall Wonders of the World??

One of the Seven Wonders of the World is the Great Wall of China. A lot of people have heard about it but when was this wall built and what was the real purpose.

Today i will try to tell you the truth. In fact, at that time China had many enemies. So the king of China built a wall to protect the country from enemy attacks. The wall was built to protect the Chinese people.

  • Mangol Attacks

Because at that time there was a country called Mongolia in the neighborhood of China, whose looters or their rulers would run up to China and destroy the peace and tranquility of China because in ancient times to protect a city A strong wall was built around it or a ditch was dug around it.

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Therefore, it was decided that a long wall would be built in the north of China with a length of 21,196 kilometers. The wall was built about twenty to thirty feet high and the wall is twenty-five feet wide and about twelve to thirteen feet above. And it is said that about five horses can run together on this wall at a time. This wall protected China in ancient times from Mongols and other foreign invaders. But today, the wall has become a popular tourist destination.

This masterpiece tells people how people built it with their own blood and liver. About ten thousand workers participated in the construction of this wall.

Nowadays it is said that the Great Wall of China can be seen from the moon, but this is only a hypothesis. Can not be seen. This is what a Chinese astronaut has to say about it. Because when man goes out of the orbit of the earth, it becomes impossible for the human eye to see. The 21,000 km long wall in northern China is a masterpiece of human creation.

  • World Heritage

The Great Wall of China was declared a World Heritage Site by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1978. This wall can only be seen with the help of satellite. In 1984, three friends circled the wall in about five hundred and ten, that is, seventeen months. In some parts of the wall towers have been erected a hundred yards and two hundred yards high with large windows. It is said to have been built to deter the Mongol army, but large door-like holes have been found under the wall. Man could easily pass through these holes. But there was something else that kept the researchers in suspense, and that was the huge tunnels under the walls.

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It is said that the tunnels were actually built so that if the Mongol army attacked them, they would be able to get out and attack the army from behind. Is. The answer is that this great wall ends in the Gobi Desert. A large fort can be seen here and it looks as if it was built for a military purpose. Experts thought that this wall might end near Gobi Desert. But the researcher was surprised when he found out that this is not the case at all. Even beyond that, there is a wall that is many years older than the Great Wall of China. And much of this wall has collapsed because of the cracks. But regular research has shown that it is thousands of years older than the Great Wall of China. Researchers found several aeroheads near the wall, and when they did, a surprising discovery was made.

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Research has shown that these aeroheads are about 22,000 years old, meaning that neither the Mongols nor the Chinese lived there at the time. This research also gave rise to the fact that if neither Mongols nor Chinese people lived here at that time, then who built this wall and why? Scientists also say that small clay structures have been found near the wall on the other side of the Gobi Desert. These structures also have some pieces of wood on which something was written in Chinese language and research revealed that these pieces are about two thousand years old. They were in very good condition and what was written on them could be easily read. When the words written on it were read with the help of a Chinese translator, it turned out that these pieces of wood belonged to a military commander.

It was written that flags should be hoisted on all towers when the enemy is attacking. And if there is an attack at night, the Watch Tower should be set on fire. He also wrote a way to tell the number of the enemy.

That is, if a thousand cavalry were attacking the fort, there was a certain way of telling it. It was only after reading this research that researchers came to know that these mounds of mud were actually the Watch Tower of that time. A search of the wall, which stretches for thousands of miles, revealed that the wall was not only to protect itself from external attacks, but also to protect the Silk Road. The Silk Road is actually the route currently used for trade.

Which used to connect China with the Eastern and Western worlds and even today this trade road is considered one of the safest roads in the world because of this wall.

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