What are the reasons for the Great Wall to become a World Heritage Site?

The basis is: The miracle of human history The Great Wall has been built continuously for a long time, the amount of work is huge, the construction is arduous, and the historical and cultural connotations are rich, which is indeed difficult to compare with other ancient projects in the world. Sun Yat-sen, the great pioneer of China's great democratic revolution in modern times, commented on the Great Wall

China's most famous engineer, the Great Wall. ......The project is so big that it is unparalleled in ancient times, and it is a unique wonder in the world. "Armstrong, the first astronaut to land on the moon 28 years ago, reported:

In space and on the moon, only two mega projects on earth can be identified, one is the Great Wall of China and the other is the Dutch embankment around the sea." After visiting the Ding Great Wall, Nixon, a former American nation, said: "Only a great nation can build such a great Great Wall."

Therefore, as a miracle of human history, the Great Wall is deservedly included in the "World Heritage List".

Long history, high visibility, uniqueness, and grand scale.

The Great Wall was declared a World Heritage Site in 1987. The Great Wall is one of the longest and largest ancient defense projects in China and the world. Since the seventh and eighth centuries B.C., it has been continuously built for more than 2,000 years, distributed in the vast land of northern and central China, with a total length of more than 50,000 kilometers, which is called more than 2,000 years up and down, and more than 100,000 miles in length and width.

The Great Wall is not just a single city wall, but a complete defense engineering system composed of various fortifications such as city walls, enemy towers, gates, dungeons, camps, guards, and beacon towers in the town city. This defense engineering system is commanded and controlled by military command systems at all levels.

From the Qin and Han dynasties to the Ming and Qing dynasties, many passes along the Great Wall became places or centers for ethnic trading in the two major economic and cultural systems of agriculture and animal husbandry, and some gradually developed into important towns along the Great Wall. The Great Wall not only ensures the normal development of agricultural economy, culture and animal husbandry economy and culture, but also provides a place and convenience for the exchange and complementarity between the two. It also plays an important role in mediating the two economies and enabling the agricultural and animal husbandry economies to develop in the direction of mutual cooperation between the main and auxiliary industries. Therefore, the Great Wall not only played the role of separating the two economies and cultures, but also shouldered the important task of closely binding the two economies and cultures together.

It was registered as a World Heritage Site in 1987.

The reason why the Great Wall is listed as a World Heritage Site is because of its high cultural heritage value. To illustrate it from the following perspective:

1. With a long history, the Great Wall of China began from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, accompanied by the progress of China's 2,000-year-long feudal society.

2. As a physical monument of history, the Great Wall will be hydrological in the land of China. The connotation of the glorious culture and art of the Chinese nation for more than 2,000 years contained in the Great Wall is very rich.

The Great Wall is the spiritual symbol of the Chinese nation, the largest and most widely distributed cultural heritage in China, with its time and space span of 2,000 years and tens of thousands of miles, it has become a magnificent architectural miracle and an unparalleled historical and cultural landscape in human history.

The Great Wall is a cultural heritage of China, tooWorld Cultural Heritage

On March 4, 1961, the Great Wall was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units.

In December 1987, the Great Wall was listed as a World Heritage Site. The Great Wall is a military defense engineering system in ancient China, and it is also an ancient defense project with the longest construction time and the largest amount of engineering in the world. Since the 7th and 8th centuries B.C., it has been continuously built for more than 2,000 years.

The cultural and architectural value of the Great Wall is comparable to its historical and strategic importance.

During the Spring and Autumn period, the Chinese imposed their own architectural and spatial organization models on the construction of defense projects in the northern frontier, and the population migration brought about made the spread of Sinicization more obvious. The Great Wall is an outstanding testimony of ancient Chinese civilization and can be attested to by the rammed earth fortifications of the Western Han Dynasty and the masonry works of the Ming Dynasty preserved in Gansu Province.