The Great Wall of China

The Great Wall of China was built over centuries by China's emperors to protect their territory. Today, it stretches for thousands of miles along China's historic northern border. To this day, the Great Wall remains world's longest man-made structure, stretching a formidable 3,948 miles!

"There in the mist, enormous, majestic, silent and terrible, stood the Great Wall of China. Solitarily, with the indifference of nature herself, it crept up the mountain side and slipped down to the depth of the valley." W. Somerset Maugham

Taking over 2000 years to build, it is not a wall but a series of fortifications. The Great Wall is not a single-structured wall, it includes beacon towers, barriers, barracks, garrison stations, and fortresses along the walls, together forming an integrated defense system... To learn more follow the Dragon... 🐉

An Ancient Tale of Love: The Legend of Lady Mengjiang It's one of the four greatest love legends in ancient China. Lady Mengjiang's husband was sent to build the Great Wall, and never gave news. She departed to bring winter clothes to him but heard that he had already died. She weeped so bitterly that part of the wall collapsed.