"Looking for Peace: Exploring the Ancient Great Wall of the Spring and Autumn Warring States" published by Xi'an Publishing House has recently been published and listed, which is a book that comprehensively writes about the Spring and Autumn Warring States Great Wall.
The author Xu Yili is a well-known cultural scholar, footprints all over the Spring and Autumn Warring States along the ancient Great Wall, in this field of more than 20 years of research, the whole book according to the Warring States Seven Xiong division, the remaining Seven Kingdoms Great Wall of China has been a detailed study, is a rare social science literature and history of the work. The article revolves around the Spring and Autumn Period to the Great Wall of the Warring States states, interspersed with many historical short stories, such as the "Mengjiang Girl Weeping the Great Wall" and other well-known allusions to Chinese, there is also a reasonable and well-founded study, from the perspective of scholars to introduce a new point of view, restoring the most likely side of history to be close to the truth, it is interesting to read.
Xu Yili's research direction is Qin Zhidao, and she said in the book, "Many people think that I can write Qin Zhidao, there is no need to write about the Great Wall, because there are many people who study the Great Wall, there are many repetitions, and it is too difficult to write." "QinZhidao is the world's earliest war-ready highway, it is a military defense project supporting the Great Wall, the difference is that the Great Wall is guarded, and the straight road is the initiative to attack, and it can advance and retreat, so as to play a better role in protecting Guotai and Min'an."
To study the straight way is to study the reasons for the birth of the straight way, to study the ancient war, and naturally also to study the Great Wall. She spent half her life collecting information in all aspects, and in the spirit of being responsible for readers, she only chose the more representative Great Wall built by the Seven Heroes of the Spring and Autumn Warring States as the focus in the book.
Source: Beiqing Network