Everyone knows that the only one in China designated by the world as the eight wonders of the world is the Terracotta Warriors and Horses of Qin Shi Huang, but our history of China is very long, the world's four major ancient civilizations, the cultural foundation is deep, and has not been cut off, it can be said that China up and down the five thousand years is the world's richest cultural information, the most comprehensive, then the mainland is famous in the world of wonders and there are many, and even any country in the world does not have China's long history and historical value of the examination, So today, let's briefly take stock of the eight wonders of China's world-renowned countries and their historical significance and historical value.
(1) The Great Wall, one of the great projects of ancient mainland China. It was built in the Spring and Autumn Warring States (770-476 BC), and the surviving ones were built by the Ming Dynasty. From Jiayu Pass in the west to Hushan Pass on the banks of the Yalu River in Dandong in the east. The Great Wall is the only three-dimensional kumi building ever seen in space. The eastern section of the Great Wall passes through mountains or hills, which was called "using danger to control the plug" in ancient times, with undulating and winding forms; the great situation of looking at the mountains and rivers of the mainland will make people marvel at the difficulties of the ancestors to open up the territory and expand the territory, and arouse unlimited ambition
(2) Terracotta Warriors and Horses of the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, according to historical records, the construction of the mausoleum began in the following year after Qin Shi Huang took the throne. It was completed in 208 BC and took 39 years. (Two other sources: first, he reigned for 37 years, and the time for which a mausoleum was built was as long as 36 years; 2. The mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang began construction from the time when Qin Shi Huang took the throne, which lasted for 38 years). At that time, the chancellor Li Si was the designer of the mausoleum, supervised by the general Zhang Handan. A total of 720,000 people were recruited, and the maximum number of people who used the tomb was nearly 800,000, almost equivalent to 8 times the number of people who built the Pyramid of Khufu. The achievements made in the excavation, research and display of the Terracotta Warriors of Qin are a brilliant achievement of the archaeological cause of New China and have attracted the attention of the world. The Qin Terracotta Warriors and Horses have rich historical and cultural connotations, giving people enlightenment in many aspects. It is a vivid map of the ancient military formation, and it is also a true epitome of the Qin Dynasty army. Regarding the arrangement method of ancient military formations, the establishment of the Qin army, the equipment of the Qin army, the combination of weapons, and many other issues, the Terracotta Army has provided specific physical examples. It is a treasure trove for the study of ancient military history. The Qin Terracotta Warriors are known as the "Eighth Wonder of the World" and "one of the great discoveries in the archaeological history of the twentieth century".
(3) Yuanmingyuan, the name given by the Kangxi Emperor. The three-character plaque of the Kangxi Emperor's imperial book hangs above the door of the Yuanming Hall. The Yuanmingyuan was mainly built in the last years of the Kangxi Dynasty and the Yongzheng Dynasty, and in the forty-eighth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1709), the Kangxi Emperor gave a garden in the northwestern suburb of Beijing to the fourth son, Ai Xinjueluo Yinchen. In 1860, the Anglo-French army sacked the Yuanmingyuan, the cultural relics were looted, and the Tongzhi Emperor wanted to restore it, but due to financial difficulties, he was forced to stop and rebuild other buildings. After the Eight-Power Alliance, it was attacked by bandits and eventually turned into a ruin. The Yuanmingyuan, under the creation and operation of the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years, has been famous for its grand regional scale, outstanding construction skills, exquisite architectural scenery, rich cultural collection and profound national cultural connotation, and is known as "the model of all gardening art", and is praised by the French writer Victor Hugo as "a model of ideals and art".
(4) Hongqi Canal is a man-made irrigation canal (English name Red Flag Canal) located in Linzhou City, Henan Province, Linzhou is at the junction of Henan, Shanxi and Hebei provinces, with a serious drought and water shortage in history. According to historical records, from the first year of the Ming Dynasty (that is, 1436) to the founding of New China in 1949, a total of 514 spring and autumn periods, More than 100 natural disasters occurred in LinXian County, and more than 30 major droughts were harvested. Sometimes there are years of drought, the rivers dry up, and the crops are not harvested. Historical records and folklore have severe droughts that "cannibalism" occurred five times in 514 years. The completion of the Hongqi Canal has completely improved the harsh living environment of the people of Linxian County who rely on the weather and wait for rain, solved the problem of 567,000 people and 370,000 domestic animals, irrigated 540,000 mu of arable land, and increased the grain yield from 100 kg in the early days of the Hongqi Canal to 476.3 kg in 1991. It is called "life canal" and "happiness canal" by the people of Linzhou. Hongqi Canal is a major miracle created by the people of Linzhou in the Mao Zedong era to carry forward the spirit of "self-reliance, hard work, self-improvement, pioneering and innovative, unity and cooperation, and selfless dedication", with a total length of 1500 kilometers, ending the suffering history of Linzhou in ten years and nine droughts, and water is as expensive as oil. In the 1970s, Premier Zhou was very concerned about supporting the work of LinXian County, and he devoted a lot of effort to the construction of the Hongqi Canal. He once proudly told international friends: "There are two miracles in New China, one is the Nanjing Yangtze River Bridge, and the other is the Linxian Hongqi Canal. ”
(5) Zeng Houyi chimes, chimes are large-scale percussion instruments in ancient China, arose in the Western Zhou Dynasty, flourished in the Spring and Autumn Warring States to the Qin and Han Dynasties. China was the first country to manufacture and use music clocks. It is cast in bronze, arranged by flat round bells of different sizes in the order of pitch, hanging on a huge bell frame, with a T-shaped wooden hammer and a long rod to beat the copper bell, can produce different musical sounds, because each bell has a different tone, according to the musical spectrum, you can play a beautiful music. A set of bronze bells with different pitches is hung on a wooden frame, and the ancient maid beats the music with a small wooden mallet. It was excavated in 1978 in Sui County (now Suizhou City) in Hubei Province. It is a huge instrument composed of sixty-five bronze chimes, with a range of five and a half octaves and twelve semitones. Its superb casting technology and good musical performance have rewritten the history of world music, and have been called "rare treasures" by Chinese and foreign experts and scholars.
(6) Mawangdui Han Tomb, excavated from 1972 to 1974 in Mawangdui Township next to the Liuyang River in the eastern suburbs of Changsha City. It shocked China and even the world. The tomb is a well-preserved female corpse, the first wet corpse to be found in the world. This ancient corpse has been buried for more than 2,000 years, and it still retains its vivid face and elastic skin, which is incredible. At the same time, the Mawangdui Han Tomb has also unearthed a large number of cultural relics of various varieties, complete preservation and extremely valuable value, which can be called the treasures of the ancient Chinese civilization. The excavation of Mawangdui in Changsha has had a profound impact on the Chinese archaeological community. Experts believe that the most valuable thing about the tomb is the intact ancient corpse, and there are sets of items, as well as rare contents of the book, bamboo and wood Jane. The fact that one of these three is an important archaeological discovery, and now it has both three, which can be said to be unique in the history of Chinese archaeology. Therefore, the excavation of the Mawangdui Han Tomb in Changsha has been praised by the world as "one of the most important archaeological discoveries in China and the world in the 20th century".
(7) Sanxingdui ancient cultural sites, the site group is huge in scale, the scope is vast, most of the ancient cultural relics are distributed on the high terraces on the north and south banks of the Mamu River on the south bank of the Yazi River, the site group plane is an irregular trapezoidal shape of south, wide and north narrow, along the river 5 to 6 kilometers long from east to west, 2 to 3 kilometers wide from north to south, with a total area of about 1200 hectares, which is the largest and most important ancient cultural relic in Sichuan. More than 30 ancient cultural relics have been identified, of which the "Sanxingdui" in the south, the "Moon Bay" and "Zhenwu Palace" in the middle, the "Xiquankan" in the north, the "Shiziyan" in the east, the "Hengliangzi" in the west, and the "Rensheng Village" and "Dayan Village" that extend to the west are the most important. The chronological range of the Sanxingdui site group continued before and after 2000, and a large number of pottery, stone tools, jade, bronze and gold artifacts were produced, which had distinct local cultural characteristics and became a cultural system of its own, which has been named "Sanxingdui culture" by Chinese archaeologists. Its discovery provides unique physical evidence for the vanished ancient Shu state, pushing forward the history of civilization in Sichuan by more than 2,000 years. Because the discovery of the Sanxingdui site is very different from the long-term understanding of the Bashu culture in the historical circles, and some places are even completely different. Historians have always believed that compared with the Central Plains, the ancient Bashu region was a relatively closed place, with no connection or little interaction with the Central Plains civilization. The Sanxingdui site proves that it should be an important cultural center around the Time of the Xia and Shang Dynasties in China, or even earlier, and has a certain connection with the Culture of the Central Plains. It verifies the authenticity of the ancient Shu state records in ancient texts.
(8) Hakka Tulou, also known as Hakka TuweiLou, Hakka House, Circular Enclosure, is a rare flower in the world's houses. Among them, the Tulou in Yongding, Longyan, Fujian, and Nanjing, Zhangzhou, is the most famous, in traditional Chinese architecture, Hakka Tulou has unique characteristics, with more than 8,000 tulou in the shape of square, circular, octagonal and oval shapes, the scale is large, the beauty of the shape, both scientific and practical, but also distinctive. The Chinese Hakka residential building "Fujian Tulou" complex has been inscribed on unesco's World Heritage List. Hakka tulou architecture is a kind of crystallization of ancient and modern times in Chinese culture, and is a strange mixture of backward productive forces and high civilization. They are perfect in technology and function, have high aesthetic value in shape, and contain profound content in cultural connotation. Tulou belongs to the collective architecture, its biggest feature is its large shape, whether from a distance or to the front, Tulou is shocking with its huge monolithic architecture, its volume is the largest, can be called the most residential