The Badaling Great Wall in Bejing

The Badaling Great Wall is China's ancient great defense project, part of the Great Wall, where the Great Wall winds in the mountainous region between the situation was very magnificent, fully embodies the ancient Chinese people's great spirit.
Badaling, altitude 1 Qian Yumi, condescending, commandeered to road, here extending in all directions, so called Badaling. Badaling Great Wall on a defense outpost, the "man guards the pass, 10,000 Fumo open the" trend.

The Great Wall built in Ming Hongzhi 18 years (1505). Tall solid wall at Badaling, the average 7.8 meters high in some places as high as 8.4 meters, the wall base is 2000 kilos of huge granite stone into the article, the average base of a wall 6.5 meters wide, with top average width of 5.7 m, wide wall can accommodate five horses and riding, 10 people out of parallel. Outside the walls called battlement walls, brick stack one by one son, called crenel, 1.7 meters high. Crenel the upper hole, called the Liao Wang mouth; crenel lower part of inclined holes, called the shooting hole. Crenel can stealth the enemy, and also shooting attack. One meter high wall built inside the low wall, called Yu wall, railings from the role. How far do not have a roll of wall inside the door, with stone stairs, for up and down.

Under the wide and narrow walls, was trapezoidal structure, so that the walls firmly located in the rugged mountain valley floor. Side wall section with a 10 to 14 stone package assemble, fill the middle of compacted stone, walls covered with cubes. Between the brick and tile adhesive article with a lime, neat. Beautiful. Firm. There are the walls and spit water drains and other outlet Tsui implemented.

Outside the Great Wall near the hill, you can see the debris with a high stone platform, which is a beacon. Beacon towers along the Great Wall are countless, so thousands of miles can be learned within hours of the enemy line of defense information.

Badaling Great Wall in different seasons scenery, beautiful. Spring sunshine, lush valleys everywhere; an atmosphere, amidst the Mimeng; autumn, maple stained possible; winter snow, clad in silvery white.