When it comes to the Great Wall, Chinese are proud of it, the Great Wall can be described as a symbol of Chinese civilization and a landmark of China. Many poets have written poems to praise him, and the Tang Dynasty poet Li Yi also wrote "The Han family is now on the county, and the ancient Great Wall of Qinsai is the same." There are days and clouds that are miserable, and there is no wind and sand to frighten yourself." Nowadays, many foreign tourists have traveled thousands of miles to China to appreciate the beauty of the Great Wall. After they came to the Great Wall, they all admired the greatness of the Great Wall and the greatness of the Chinese. Although the Great Wall is great, many people who visit the Great Wall have a doubt in their hearts, the Height of the Great Wall is less than 10 meters, what does it prevent? Western historians: Pit Europe miserable.
Some of the Great Walls do not look high in height, and everyone knows that the Great Wall was not a landscape in ancient times, but a building used for military defense, so how can the relatively low Great Wall prevent the enemy from attacking? According to relevant information, the average height of the Great Wall is 7.8 meters, while the shortest part of the Great Wall is only four meters high. Except for the towers with relatively high height, the height of the entire Great Wall does not exceed ten meters. For humans, it is not difficult to climb a building with a height of no more than ten meters with the help of tools. So in ancient times, those soldiers with siege equipment, would it be easy to cross the Great Wall?
In history, the Great Wall has used its height of less than ten meters to defend the tranquility of the Chinese region. At first, the rulers built the Great Wall to defend against barbarian invasions of the Central Plains. When Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the Great Wall, an allusion to the Meng jiang female weeping on the Great Wall was also born. Most of the Great Wall we see today is the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty, and most of the Great Wall built during the Qin Shi Huang period has disappeared into the dust and smoke of history.
Throughout China's history, we will find that the Great Wall played an important role in defending the safety of the Central Plains. And the Central Plains Dynasty of successive dynasties, as long as it holds the important pass of the Great Wall, will ensure the national tranquility to a large extent. Friends who have climbed the Great Wall may have seen one beacon tower after another on the Great Wall, and in ancient times, people used the fire of the beacon to convey information. Although the levels are far apart, you can know what is happening to each other by lighting a beacon. The access to information also enabled the soldiers defending the city to resist the barbarian invasion more smoothly.
When some researchers study the distribution of the Great Wall, they will find that the regional line of the distribution of the Great Wall is exactly the distribution line of the precipitation line of 400mm. The so-called 400mm and other precipitation lines are also the dividing line between forest vegetation and grassland vegetation in China, which in a certain sense also shows that the Great Wall is the dividing line between agricultural civilization and nomadic civilization.
Some people think that the average height of the Great Wall is not more than ten meters, I am afraid that it will be difficult to resist the invasion of barbarians, so that the Central Plains region is in crisis, in fact, such an idea is one-sided to a certain extent. Throughout history, we will find that the Great Wall has historically been of great significance in defending the tranquility of the Central Plains. Moreover, in the eyes of Western historians Chinese built the Great Wall and defended the tranquility of the Central Plains, but it pit them in Europe.
Because the construction of the Great Wall in the Central Plains defended the barbarians outside the Great Wall, these barbarians could not enter the Central Plains in order to develop, and could only find another way to survive, and they chose to invade Europe. This caused Europe to decline as a result of these barbarian scourges. Barbarian invasions, for example, led to the demise of the Roman Empire, which had flourished in Europe.
The Great Wall will never fall, the Great Wall is the symbol of our Chinese nation and the treasure of our Chinese culture.
Reference: "Climbing the Great Wall"