之二 （2）长城

长城是世界上建造时间最长、工程量最大的军事防御工程，它是世界七大奇观之一。长城的修筑最早起源于2000多年前的西周时期。秦始皇灭了六国、统一天下以后，大兴土木、修缮和连接了早期和战国的长城，使当时的长城达到了10000多公里。500年以前的明朝是最后一个大规模修建长城的朝代，共修建了8800多公里的明长城。加上其他朝代陆陆续续修建的长城，使得长城的总长度达到了21000多公里。

当我登上长城，举目远眺，那时少数民族侵略中原时的战争场景仿佛就在我眼前浮现……

 

Part 2 (2) The Great Wall

The Great Wall is the longest-building defensive military project in the world. It’s also the biggest on the quantity of work put into building the wall. The construction of the Great Wall started more than 2000 years ago, in the Zhou Dynasty. After the first emperor, Emperor Yin Zhen of the Qin Dynasty took over all of China, he started building and connecting the Great Wall beforehand. At that time, the Great Wall was over 10000 kilometres long. The last dynasty which made major changes to the Great Wall was the Ming Dynasty, about 500 years from now. There is about 8800 kilometres of the Great Wall built in the Ming Dynasty’s rule. Adding up all the parts of the wall built in other dynasties and kingdoms, the Great Wall is about 21000 kilometres in total.

Climbing on the Great Wall, I can imagine the war scenes long ago with the northerners invading the central part of China.