How were the bricks used to build the Great Wall transported?

The first and most important one is to rely on * manpower transportation. The large quantities of stones, earth, and timber used in the construction of the Great Wall, as well as the bricks and lime used later, were often carried by manpower or carried by means of baskets and poles. In the Shanhaiguan area, there is a legend that there is a migrant worker named Wang Xiaoqi, a person can carry seven bricks, and those who have good deeds will engrave this thing on the bricks:

Wang Xiaoqi carried seven bricks. There is also a legend that there is a stone tablet of "eighteen bricks on the back of Wang Erxiao" between the enemy towers of the Great Wall of Banchangyu in Funing County. At that time, people were still lining up in places where it was difficult to walk, and the construction materials were transferred to the construction site by the method of transfer.

In the winter, water is poured on the ground, and huge stones are pushed and pulled to the construction site by taking advantage of the low friction after freezing. The second is to use simple tools. For example, there are various types of carts (the structure of the carts varies depending on the era), rolling logs, crowbars, and winches (rollers), and the "flying basket rope" method in deep valleys, in which building materials are loaded in baskets and slipped or dragged through the ropes that are tightly pulled on both sides of the river.

The third is the use of animal transportation, some of the Great Wall is built on the steep part of the mountain, it is not easy for people to climb up empty-handed, let alone carry the weight of building materials, in this regard, the legend is to use the goats and donkeys who are good at climbing the mountain: baskets full of lime and other materials are put on the back of the donkey, bricks and other materials are tied to the horns of the goats or carried on the back of the goats, and then they are coaxed up the mountain to solve the problem.

When building the Great Wall, how did the bricks be transported? After reading it, it was a surprise.

Most of the large bricks and stones used to build the Great Wall are made of local materials and assigned to the local ** special supervision. There are marks written on the ancient bricks, indicating the state capital and the maker, and there is a problem, which is easy to trace.

Some of the stone strips used to build the walls are up to two meters long and weigh more than 1,000 kilograms. It is not easy to carry a large amount of earthwork, stones and bricks up the mountain ridge with undulating mountains, steep slopes and no roads.

It is said that the loess and bricks used in the wall are all passed on or carried up one by one, one by one. There is also a folk legend of "using a goat's back brick to go up the mountain".

As for transporting large stones, it is necessary to use inclined planes, rolling logs, pole logs and other methods to transport. It can be said that every handful of soil, every brick and stone on the Great Wall is soaked in the blood and sweat of the ancient working people. At the same time, it also fully shows the achievements of China's ancient construction engineering technology.

Finally, it was transported by some animals, and the goats were probably the most used at the time. Many people may be surprised, because in many people's impressions, goats do not have much strength and cannot be used for transportation. However, in fact, many wild goats at that time were very good at running on cliffs, so people at that time also used this characteristic of goats to transport some bricks or other materials.

In fact, we should be proud of the Great Wall, which belongs to the wisdom of the ancients and the wisdom of the working people. The impact and significance for future generations is also very significant, whether it is cultural symbols, ethnic or military.

Most of the Great Wall we see today is the Ming Great Wall. Some of the ruins and ruins I saw, those are the traces of time. Let's talk about the construction method of the Great Wall.

In fact, Sima Qian's "Historical Records" has already told us that it is "terrain", and that it is built by using dangerous locations. In some places, you choose the pass of the city, and in some places, you will choose between the canyons of the two mountains, or the place where there is a river turn, and there is the Pingchuan area. As long as you control these places, you will defend against these foreigners.

War controls the terrain, controls the dangerous position, and then you can be invincible. This method can not only save manpower, but also save materials. It can also achieve the role of a husband and a wife, and these walls are built on the back of the mountain.

It looks very steep, and the interior is gentle.

Let's talk about the key points in the title, "Stones, Bricks". When the ancients built the Great Wall, they used a large number of stones and bricks, and these bricks did not need to be transported at all, because they could be made from local materials. The ancients also had tools such as scaffolding and ladders to do masonry work.

Since these stones and bricks can be used locally, it will save manpower for transportation. Pull the rope to the scaffold for bricklaying and building the Great Wall! After thousands of years of change, the productivity of the Ming Dynasty has been much more developed than that of the pre-Qin and Qin dynasties.

So bricks and stones are not rare things anymore. But it's all about manpower, and it's all about moving these building materials by hand. Because the specifications of these brick products are unified, it will also save some of the difficulty of construction and improve the progress of construction.

Let's go to see some ancient buildings and ancient city gates of the Ming Dynasty, and we know how amazing the wisdom of the ancients was at that time!

In short, the transportation of bricks is inseparable from manpower, whether it is the Qin, Han and other periods with the method of "local materials", or the late Ming Dynasty with unified specifications of brick products are inseparable from the wisdom of the working people!

There are many methods, and the wisdom of the ancient working people is still very great, among which there is a kind of manpower solitaire, which is lined up from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, and the building materials are transmitted to the mountain one by one.

In fact, there is no need to transport, since it is built on the mountain, there will naturally be stones when digging the mountain, so they are all made of local materials.

They did not transport bricks up, but went directly to the mountains to find materials that could be used to build the Great Wall, and transformed them for use in the construction of the Great Wall.

In ancient times, people could already apply the technology of burning paper maturely, and the construction of the Great Wall was generally made of local materials, and it was built directly on the mountain after firing.

Ice road is a common method used by ancient people to build civil engineering, splashing water into ice in winter, and building materials have little friction on the ice and are easy to transport.

The construction of the Great Wall requires a large number of stones and bricks, which can be directly taken from the mountains and then dragged to the scaffolding by ropes for bricklaying.

Bricks are fired with mud, and when the Great Wall is built, you can build a brick kiln on the mountain to burn bricks with mud, so you don't need to transport bricks up the mountain without manpower.

Meng Jiangnu smiled.

The Great Wall was repaired.

Meng Jiangnu cried.

And the Great Wall fell.

As for who Meng Jiangnu is! I don't know, it must be God. Because he has done what ordinary people can't, she is God!