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 * Here are some facts about the Great Wall of China.**


 * The Great Wall of China is the longest monument ever built in the history of mankind.

//*// The wall started before Christ was born and continued while Christopher Columbus sailed to America.

//*// The length of all Chinese defense walls built over the last 2,000 years is approximately 31,070 miles (50,000 km). Earth's circumference is about 24,854 miles (40,000 km).

//*// The Great Wall of China is counted as one of the seven wonders of the Medieval World.

// * //The Great Wall starts from Hushan in Liaoning in the east and ends at Jiayuguan Pass in Gansu in the west, via the nine provinces or cities in northern China, including Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia and Gansu.

// * //In Chinese History, over 20 states and dynasties have built the Great Wall.

*The original length of the Great Wall is 8,851.8 km (5,500 miles) long.


 * *Construction Period: About 2,000 years from the Warring States Period (476 BC - 221 BC) to Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) **


 * *In 1972, President Nixon visit the Great Wall in China and that increases the tourism of the Great Wall. sections of the wall were restored because of the increasing of the tourism. The Great Wall is recognized as a symbol of the nation. **


 * In the Great Wall, at anytime, family members of those who has suffered and died while working on the Wall would carry a coffin on top of roosters. The crowing of the roosters keep the dead spirits awake on the wall untill they passed the wall or the dead spirits would wander around on the wall forever. **


 * The Chinese often compare the Great Wall with a dragon. The Chinese believe that a dragon is protective and earth was filled with dragons which gave the shape of mountains and the strength of the land. **

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