Walking On The Great Wall | The Badaling Section, Beijing | 4K HDR | 北京 | 八达岭长城 | March, 2021

★★ As China's most famous attraction, the Great Wall of China is an essential stop on all China tours.

Commonly considered a wonder of the world, the Great Wall boasts a history of over 2,000 years and stretches more than 3,000 miles across several provinces of northern China, making it one of the most impressive ancient structures on the planet.
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★★ Brief synthesis ★★
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The Great Wall was continuously built from the 3rd century BC to the 17th century AD on the northern border of the country as the great military defense project of successive Chinese Empires, with a total length of more than 20,000 kilometers.

The Great Wall begins in the east at Shanhaiguan in Hebei province and ends at Jiayuguan in Gansu province to the west.

Its main body consists of walls, horse tracks, watch towers, and shelters on the wall, and includes fortresses and passes along the Wall.

The Great Wall reflects collision and exchanges between agricultural civilizations and nomadic civilizations in ancient China.

It provides significant physical evidence of the far-sighted political strategic thinking and mighty military and national defense forces of central empires in ancient China, and is an outstanding example of the superb military architecture, technology and art of ancient China.

It embodies unparalleled significance as the national symbol for safeguarding the security of the country and its people.
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★★ Criterion (i):
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The Great Wall of the Ming is, not only because of the ambitious character of the undertaking but also the perfection of its construction, an absolute masterpiece.

The only work built by human hands on this planet that can be seen from the moon, the Wall constitutes, on the vast scale of a continent, a perfect example of architecture integrated into the landscape.
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★★ Criterion (ii):
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During the Chunqiu period, the Chinese imposed their models of construction and organization of space in building the defense works along the northern frontier.

The spread of Sinicism was accentuated by the population transfers necessitated by the Great Wall.
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★★ Criterion (iii):
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That the Great Wall bear exceptional testimony to the civilizations of ancient China is illustrated as much by the rammed-earth sections of fortifications dating from the Western Han that are conserved in the Gansu province as by the admirable and universally acclaimed masonry of the Ming period.
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★★ Criterion (iv):
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This complex and diachronic cultural property is an outstanding and unique example of a military architectural ensemble which served a single strategic purpose for 2000 years, but whose construction history illustrates successive advances in defense techniques and adaptation to changing political contexts.
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★★ Criterion (vi):
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The Great Wall has an incomparable symbolic significance in the history of China.

Its purpose was to protect China from outside aggression, but also to preserve its culture from the customs of foreign barbarians.

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★★ Authenticity ★★
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The existing elements of the Great Wall retain their original location, material, form, technology and structure.

The original layout and composition of various constituents of the Great Wall defense system are maintained, while the perfect integration of the Great Wall with the topography, to form a meandering landscape feature, and the military concepts it embodies have all been authentically preserved.

Badaling is the site of the most visited section of the Great Wall of China, approximately 80 kilometers northwest of Beijing's city center, in Yanqing District.
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★★ Features of Badaling Great Wall ★★
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1. Most popular section
2. Most representative and magnificent section of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty
3. Well renovated
4. First to be opened to foreign guests

★★ Fees: 40 Yuan (About USD $6 ) ★★
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0:00 Intro
0:42 Hill climbing sled ride
1:05 Walking on the Great Wall
20:05 Close-up scenes of the Great Wall
30:25 Downhill Walking
34:25 Downhill sled ride of the Great Wall

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Видео Walking On The Great Wall | The Badaling Section, Beijing | 4K HDR | 北京 | 八达岭长城 | March, 2021 канала Walk East