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　　Shanhaiguan is a municipal district of Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. Itis located in the northeast corner of Hebei Province, the west end of Liaoxicorridor, and the northeast of Qinhuangdao city. In the East and North, itborders Suizhong County, Liaoning Province; in the west, it borders HaigangDistrict, Qinhuangdao City; in the northwest, it borders Funing County, HebeiProvince; in the south, it faces Liaodong Peninsula and Shandong Peninsulaacross the sea. The East-West horizontal distance is 18.30 km, and theNorth-South vertical distance is 16.92 km. According to Linyu county annals, "inthe 14th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty, Xu Dajian, Duke of the state ofWei, set up a guard at the pass. He stationed 5000 troops and went to the oldYuguan for 60 Li. Because of the mountain and sea, it was called Shanhai Pass.".The plain area of 8 square kilometers between the mountains and the sea hasbecome an important road connecting the North China Plain and the NortheastPlain since ancient times. It is known as "the key of the two capitals, thefirst pass of the Great Wall". In the past and in recent years, the situation ofShanhaiguan district has changed frequently. In Shang Dynasty, it belonged toGuzhu state. In the spring and Autumn period, it belonged to Guzhu of Beiyan.During the Warring States period, it belonged to Beiping county. In the QinDynasty, it belonged to the west of Liaoning Province. In the Western HanDynasty, it belonged to Linyu County, Liaoxi County, Youzhou. During the threeGuo period, it belonged to Linyu County, Liaoxi County, weiyouzhou. In theWestern Jin Dynasty, it was located in Linyu, Liaoxi County, Youzhou. During thesixteen periods of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it successively belonged to LiaoxiCounty of the former Yan, Liaoxi County of the former Qin, Liaoxi County of thelater Yan and Liaoxi County of Jizhou in the northern Yan. During the northernand Southern Dynasties, it belonged to Peiping County of Pingzhou.

　　In the Sui Dynasty, it belonged to Linyu Palace (pass) in Beiping county.In the Tang Dynasty, it is located in Linyu County, Daoping Prefecture, HebeiProvince, and lianyuguan (also known as linlu pass) in Shicheng County. Duringthe Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, it was located in Haibin County,Xizhou, Dading Prefecture, Qidan. In Liao Dynasty, it belonged to ZhongjingRoad, Qianzhou and qianmin county. In the Jin Dynasty, Qianzhou was located. InYuan Dynasty, it was located in qianmin Town, Ruizhou, Daning Road, Liaoyangprovince. Ming Dynasty, Hongwu 14 years (1381) home shanhaiwei, the capitalYongping house. In the Qing Dynasty, shanhaiwei was removed in the second yearof Qianlong (1737) and Linyu county was set up. Shanhaiguan was the seat of thecounty, which belonged to Yongping Prefecture. In 1913, it belonged to LinyuCounty, Bohai Road, Zhili Province, and changed to Linyu County, Jinhai Road thenext year. In 1928, Linyu County, Hebei Province. In 1935, it belonged to LinyuCounty, the puppet Jidong Fanggong autonomous government. In September of the34th year of Min Guo (1945), it belongs to Linyu County, the 16th specialdistrict of Ji re Liao district. On November 27, 1948, Shanhaiguan wasliberated. It is located in Qinyu County, Hebei Province. Shanhaiguan office wasestablished. On April 21, 1949, it belonged to Jianshan customs City, Liaoxiprovince. In July 1952, Shanhaiguan city was transferred to Hebei Province. InMarch 1953, Shanhaiguan was removed from the city and built into a district,belonging to Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. In April 1958, it belongs toQinhuangdao City, Tangshan special district, Hebei Province. In May 1983, itbelongs to Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province.

　　Customs is a famous place of interest in ancient and modern times. With theGreat Wall as the main body and the ancient city as the core, it has 129castles, passes, enemy towers, city towers, beacon towers and piers along the 26km long Great Wall line from laolongtou in the south to jiumenkou in the North,forming a complete defense system for the long city. Luocheng is built on theEast and west sides of Shanhaiguan City, and Yicheng is built on the north andsouth sides, forming a defensive pattern of front arch and back guard, leftsupporting and right supporting. Shanhaiguan ancient city mainly refers toShanhaiguan city and Dongluo City, covering an area of 1.5 million squaremeters, of which Guancheng covers an area of 1.26 million square meters andDongluo city covers an area of 240000 square meters. Dongluocheng is anavant-garde city of Shanhaiguan. It is an important part of the city defense. Itwas built in 1583 and completed the next year. The perimeter of the city is 2040meters, with East, South and north gates. There are two-story towers on the eastgate and one-story tower on the north and South gates.

　　There are turrets at the corner of southeast and northeast. Eleven kinds ofinscriptions, such as "Zhending building in the 12th year of Wanli" and"luanzhou building in the 12th year of Wanli", were printed on the bricks forthe construction of the city, which were rated as a highly valuable culturalrelic city by experts. There are moats on the southeast and north sides of thecity. In Ming Dynasty, there were temples such as emperor's temple, Tianqi'stemple and memorial archways such as "Liaohai throat square" and "Huayi square";in early Qing Dynasty, there was Fangguan hall. In addition to partial damage,most of the walls of Luocheng are relatively complete. Shanhaiguan ancient cityis the first important pass at the eastern starting point of the great wall ofMing Dynasty. Among the thousands of dangerous passes along the great wall ofMing Dynasty, Shanhai Pass, Juyong Pass and Jiayu pass are famous in ancient andmodern times. Among the three famous passes, Shanhaiguan Pass ranks first, so itis called "the first pass in the world". Her position as an important militarytown is unique among the passes of the Great Wall. These famous cultural relicshave become a valuable asset of Shanhaiguan.

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　　The Great Wall, like the Pyramids of Egypt, the Taj Mahal(1) in India and the Hanging Garden of Babylon(2), is one of the great wonders of the world.

　　Starting out in the east on the banks of the Yalu River in Liaoning Province, the Wall stretches westwards for 12,700 kilometers to Jiayuguan in the Gobi desert, thus known as the Ten Thousand Li Wall in China. The Wall climbs up and down, twists and turns along the ridges of the Yanshan and Yinshan Mountain Chains through five provinces——Liaoning, Hebei, Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu and two autonomous regions——Ningxia and Inner Mongolia, binding the northern China together.

　　Historical records trace the construction of the origin of the Wall to defensive fortification back to the year 656 B.C. during the reign of King Cheng of the States of Chu. Its construction continued throughout the Warring States period in the fifth Century B.C. when ducal states Yan, Zhao, Wei, and Qin were frequently plundered by the nomadic peoples living north of the Yinshan and Yanshan mountain ranges. Walls, then, were built separately by these ducal states to ward off such harassments. Later in 221 B.C., when Qin conquered the other states and unified China, Emperor Qinshihuang ordered the connection of these individual walls and further extensions to form the basis of the present great wall. As a matter of fact, a separate outer wall was constructed north of the Yinshan range in the Han Dynasty(206 BC——1644 BC.), which went to ruin through years of neglect. In the many intervening centuries, succeeding dynasties rebuilt parts of the Wall. The most extensive reinforcements and renovations were carried out in the Ming Dynasty (1368——1644) when altogether 18 lengthy stretches were reinforced with bricks and rocks. it is mostly the Ming Dynasty Wall that visitors see today.

　　lThe Great Wall is divided into two sections, the east and west, with Shanxi Province as the dividing line. The west part is a rammed earth construction, about 5.3 meters high on average. In the eastern part, the core of the Wall is rammed earth as well, but the outer shell is reinforced with bricks and rocks. The most imposing and best preserved sections of the Great Wall are at Badaling and Mutianyu, not far from Beijing and both are open to visitors.

　　The Wall of those sections is 7.8 meters high and 6.5 meters wide at its base, narrowing to 5.8 meters on the ramparts, wide enough for five horses to gallop abreast. There are ramparts, embrasures, peep-holes and apertures for archers on the top, besides gutters with gargoyles to drain rain-water off the parapet walk. Two-storied watch-towers are built at approximately 400-meters internals. The top stories of the watch-tower were designed for observing enemy movements, while the first was used for storing grain, fodder, military equipment and gunpowder as well as for quartering garrison soldiers. The highest watch-tower at Badaling standing on a hill-top, is reached only after a steep climb, like "climbing a ladder to heaven". The view from the top is rewarding, hoverer. The Wall follows the contour of mountains that rise one behind the other until they finally fade and merge with distant haze.

　　A signal system formerly existed that served to communicate military information to the dynastic capital. This consisted of beacon towers on the Wall i

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　　Hebei Shanhaiguan Great Wall is the entrance of the Great Wall. "The key ofthe two capitals is unparalleled, and the first pass of the Great Wall" belongsto Shanhaiguan, Qinhuangdao City, Hebei Province. With a total length of 26 km,it mainly includes: laolongtou Great Wall, Guancheng Great Wall in the south,north, Jiaoshan Great Wall, SANDAOGUAN great wall and jiumenkou Great Wall.Laolongtou Great Wall is the end part of the great wall into the sea, with thereputation of "the soul of China".

　　Shanhaiguan city is composed of seven Castles: Guan City, Dongluo City,Xiluo City, South Wing City, North Wing City, Weiyuan city and Ninghai city.There are 4769 meters long, 11.6 meters high and more than 10 meters thick wallsaround. The walls are tall, solid and magnificent. There are four gates in theEast, West, South and North, turrets in the East, South and northeast, andmagnificent bell and drum towers in the middle of the city. The scale of thewhole acropolis is magnificent, and the defense project is solid. Shanhaiguanwas the product of the establishment of the "garrison system" in Ming Dynasty.The "garrison system" and reform policy in Ming Dynasty played an important rolein the consolidation and development of Shanhaiguan.

　　Shanhaiguan Great Wall is composed of seven Castles: Guancheng, Dongluo,Xiluo, Nanyi, Beiyi, Weiyuan and Ninghai. It is surrounded by walls of 4769meters long, 11.6 meters high and more than 10 meters thick. The walls are tall,solid and magnificent. There are four gates in the East, West, South and North,turrets in the East, South and northeast, and magnificent bell and drum towersin the middle of the city. The scale of the whole acropolis is magnificent, andthe defense project is solid. Shanhaiguan was the product of the establishmentof the "garrison system" in Ming Dynasty. The "garrison system" and reformpolicy in Ming Dynasty played an important role in the consolidation anddevelopment of Shanhaiguan.

　　Since the establishment of Shanhaiguan, there have been frequent exchangesbetween merchants and active economic and trade activities, which played animportant role in developing friendly exchanges between nationalities, promotingeconomic and cultural exchanges, protecting the capital and consolidating therule of the Ming Dynasty. No matter from scale, layout or structure, the customsand customs are rare in China's ancient architectural history. It is also theessence of the Great Wall, and is a rare masterpiece in China's ancient city'streasure house. Shanhaiguan is a treasure of ancient Chinese architecture and aprecious historical legacy of the motherland.

　　The temples in Shanhaiguan area developed rapidly in Ming and QingDynasties. The most famous temple buildings are: the remarkable temple, theConfucian Temple, the mosque, the San Qing Guan, the virgin temple, the TownGod's Temple, the Beihai temple, the Dragon God Temple, the Thean Hou Temple,Erlang temple and so on.

　　The streets and alleys of Shanhaiguan and Guancheng are typicalcheckerboard layout. The streets and alleys of Guancheng are connected withresidential buildings with rich local color.

　　The Great Wall is a historical monument of the wisdom and hard work of theChinese nation, and the Great Wall is an important part of the Great Wall, whichis the world-famous place where the Great Wall enters the sea. At present, theGreat Wall in Shanhaiguan has a total length of 26 kilometers, mainly including:laolongtou Great Wall, South Wing Great Wall, Guancheng Great Wall, North WingGreat Wall, Jiaoshan Great Wall, SANDAOGUAN great wall and jiumenkou GreatWall.

　　Shanhaiguan, also known as "Yuguan", is the starting point of the northeastend of the great wall of Ming Dynasty. It is located 15 kilometers northeast ofQinhuangdao City, and has the reputation of "the first pass in the world".Shanhaiguan scenic spot is a famous historical and cultural ancient city andsummer resort with many places of interest, beautiful scenery and pleasantclimate. There are more than 90 places of interest with development andornamental value in the area, forming six major scenic spots, namely "old dragonhead", "mengjiangnu Temple", "Jiaoshan", "the first pass in the world","Changshou mountain" and "Yansai Lake". Among them, the essence of China'sancient the Great Wall is the the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan. The East startingpoint of the great wall of Ming Dynasty is laolongtou, where the great wallmeets with the sea, with blue sea and Jinsha, and the sky opens to the sea. Thefamous "No.1 pass in the world" is towering. It is known as "pinghan in thecapital and the throat of liaozuo". The great wall of Jiaoshan mountain iswinding, with steep beacon towers and picturesque scenery. The "rain andsunshine in the mountain temple, Ruilian holding the sun" and the wonderful"Qixian Buddha light" in the "eight scenes of Yuguan" attract many touriststourist. Meng Jiangnu temple is a moving story of Jiang Nu's seeking husband, aChinese folk legend. Chen Yun and his poem praise that "the Great Wall is builtby the sweat and blood of many anonymous people. Experts and scholars have noway to verify it, but a generation of heroes with all names are actually a kindof glory in half the sky.". Xuanyang cave, the largest natural granite cave innorthern China, is like a paradise with strange caves, strange rocks andgurgling springs. Yansai lake is a beautiful pearl outside the Great Wall.

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　　Looks very spirit, today we will visit the Great Wall, please get ready. The Great Wall is the longest in China building is one of the most famous building in our country in its length to reach more than thirteen thousand, we often call it the Great Wall

　　First we went to the Great Wall on foot, you see the Great Wall by tall solid, is made of huge stone and ChengZhuan. With square brick on the top of the wall, very smooth, like a wide road, WuLiuPi mark in parallel.

　　Did you see the side holes like teeth, small square and a fort? Let me tell you what's the use of these three things? The hole like the teeth! It's called now.i hope mouth, I think you'll be scanned mouth phase know why is it called? I'll tell you, war, the eighth route army uncle there to see the situation, the small square called nozzle which is used for archery. The fortress was used for ChengTai can mutual echo.

　　Everybody go tired, also hungry? Can eat the food, I send you a bag for garbage, remember not to litter, let me tell you a story, is the story about the Great Wall, qin shihuang before is just fight a lot, and then he thought of the built the Great Wall, and he put all men are caught to build the Great Wall of qin, qin shi huang is afraid of the men ran away, so give tied up in the men's feet. How much the sweat and wisdom of the working people to suspected as the former see head, after the end of the Great Wall.

　　What do you think I this guide when? Next time I come to you when the tour guide.

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　　Dear visitors:

　　Everybody is good! Everybody call me weeks. Today, I take you to visit the Great Wall of world-famous. During the visit, please protect the cultural heritage, the wall graffito of the scribble not, not disorderly garbage.

　　Chairman MAO once said: "not a true man unless he comes to the Great Wall." As a Chinese people why don't we go visit? Right! Now we will go when men, mounted the former see head, after the end of the Great Wall. There is a touching legend about the Great Wall: intelligent and hardworking meng jiangnu, in order to find the officers and soldiers to catch to built the Great Wall's husband, all the way to the Great Wall. After more than doubling about, but learned that her husband is alive dead tired! The news like a bolt from the blue, meng jiangnu cry for three days and three nights at the foot of the Great Wall, "bang" 1, the Great Wall in 800.

　　Now we are standing on the badaling Great Wall, stepping at the foot of the square brick, holding the stone on the wall. Tourists, look at the countless stone, a two or three one thousand catties, at that time there were no trains, cars, no crane, rely on countless countless hands, shoulders step by step, carry on the steep mountains. Look at these, you can think of the Great Wall is perhaps the epitome of many working people sweat and wisdom.

　　The beauty of the Great Wall, also don't say don't say it now, please walk to enjoy!

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　　Ladies and Gentlemen:

　　We will visit the symbol of China's civilization-the Great Wall. It is one of the famous, grand and splendid ancient construction wonders in the world. It is just like a giant dragon in the northern part of China.

　　Construction of the Great Wall first began in the seventh century BC. At that time it was also called Spring and Autumn Warring States Period. The first wall that appeared in China was built by Kingdom Qi and Kingdom Chu. At that time, the kingdoms in order to defend themselves against the infringing enemy from own territories for self-protection. These high walls were the primitive type of the present day Great Wall.

　　In Chinese history, large-scale construction of the Great Wall was concentrated in three dynasties, they are Qin, Han and Ming dynasties.

　　In 221BC, Qin Shihuang unified China; he decided to link up all the separated high walls built by different kingdoms into the Great Wall. The Qin Great Wall started from Lintao, Gansu Province in the west and ended in Liaodong, Liaoning Province in the east, over 500 kilometers long.

　　The second large-scale construction on the Great Wall was carried out during the Han Dynasty. Apart from maintaining and utilizing the Qin Great Wall, they built an outer Great Wall about 500 kilometers to the north of the Qin Great Wall in order to ward off the Huns. They also had the Great Wall ectended towards the west for another 5000 kilometers long. The Han Great Wall started from Liaodong in the east to the Lop Nur Lake in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, with a total length of 10,000 kilometers.

　　The last large-scale project on the Great wall was carried out in the Ming Dynasty. That is because the dethroned Mongol Yuan ruler still had the remnant forces and often made counterattack to Beijing, as well as the threats of newly raised ethnic tribe of “Nv Zhen”。 So started from the first year after Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty. The whole project took more than 200 years to complete. The total lenth of the Ming Great Wall was more than 6,000 kilometers from Yalu River in Liaoning Province in the east to Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu Province in the west. It passes nine cities, provinces and autonomous regions of Liaoning, Hebei, Tianjin, Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Ningxia and Gansu.

　　The Great Wall, we see today, in Beijing is mainly the Ming Grest Wall. There was a 20-kilometer long valley named “Nankou, Juyongguan, Shangguan and Badaling”。 Juyongguan Pass was one of the important passes along the valley, and also one of the most famous passes of the Great Wall. The name “Juyong” in Chinese means “a place of poor laborers”。

　　Today we will visit the Badaling Great Wall, it is about 75 kilometers northwest of Beijing, and it is the best-preserved part of the Great Wall. Bada means in English “convenient transportation to all directions”。 It used to be more important than Juyong Pass in the defence of Beijing. The Badaling Great Wall averages 7.8 meters high, 6.5meters wide at its base, and 5.8 meters wide on the top, wide enough for five horses or ten soldiers walking abreast on the wall.

　　The highest point at Badaling is about 800-1,000 meters above the sea level. Here at Badaling section is with single side battlements while the parapet is on the other side. The outer of the wall is topped with crenellated battlements, which is about 2 meters high and with a square sized hole below for shouting arrows and also for keeping a watch over the enemy, while the parapets about 1 meter high is on the inner side.

　　Buildings on both sides of the wall at the commanding points, the top of the mountains or the turns are beacon towers. The beacon towers were used for makong signal of warning messages when the enemy was sighted. Fires were lit on the top of the beacon towers at night and the smoke signals in daytime. And the number of the fire and smoke signals could signify the number of invading enemies.

　　The watch-towers are lovated at regular intervals on the Great Wall for watching over the invading enemy, and it is usually of two stories. The ground floor was used to store weapons and had a number of window for archers. The upper floor has battlements, peep-holes and appertures for archers.

　　Today the Great Wall has lost its signifivance in defending the enemy, but in ancient times the Great Wall was not noly a strong defensive project but also played a very important role in military, economy and served as a link in promoting harmonious relationship among the nationalities for the whole country. Today, the Great Wall has become a famous tourist attraction in the world.