Why the construction of the Great Wall was stopped during the Qing Dynasty

The Qing Dynasty built the Great Wall, but it did not repair the Great Wall much, one reason is that the Ming Dynasty had overhauled the Great Wall, and the Great Wall did not collapse immediately, and the Qing Dynasty did not need to build the Great Wall on a large scale.

Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty expanded its territory very widely, and the northern grassland zone, the Western Regions, the homeland of Tibet, and Taiwan were all subordinate to the territory of the Qing Dynasty. The expansion of the Qing Dynasty's frontiers laid the foundation for today's Chinese frontiers.

By the time of the Qianlong Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty had achieved great unification, and the situation of "nine-sided border towns and border police" in the Ming Dynasty was gone forever. Therefore, when discussing the frontier policy of the Qing Dynasty, most people think that the Qing Dynasty did not build the Great Wall, because the Great Wall was a defensive structure for the agrarian regime against the nomadic regime.

However, in fact, the basis for the maintenance of the Great Wall in the Qing Dynasty can be found in many historical materials. One reason why the Qing Dynasty did not build the Great Wall was that the Ming Dynasty had already overhauled the Great Wall, and the Great Wall did not collapse immediately, and the Qing Dynasty did not need to build the Great Wall on a large scale. However, the Qing Dynasty repaired the Great Wall, and even built the Great Wall at some times.

The Great Wall is the longest and largest ancient defense project in China and the world, which has been continuously built for more than 2,000 years since the Western Zhou Dynasty, and is distributed over the vast land of northern and central China, with a total length of more than 50,000 kilometers.

Since Qin Shi Huang, almost all dynasties that ruled the Central Plains have built the Great Wall. There are more than 10 dynasties such as Han, Jin, Northern Wei, Eastern Wei, Western Wei, Northern Qi, Northern Zhou, Sui, Tang, Song, Liao, Jin, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, all of which have built the Great Wall on different scales. From the perspective of the ruling ethnic groups that built the Great Wall, in addition to the Han Chinese, many dynasties ruled China by ethnic minorities also built the Great Wall, and more than the Han ruled dynasties.

During the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, although the large-scale construction of the Great Wall was stopped, the Great Wall was also built in individual places, and it can be said that the construction of the Great Wall has not been stopped for more than 2,000 years from the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period to the Qing Dynasty. According to historical documents, there are more than 20 princely states and feudal dynasties have built the Great Wall, if the Great Wall built in various eras is added up, there are more than 100,000 li, of which the length of the Great Wall built by the Qin, Han and Ming dynasties is more than 10,000 li.

Xinjiang, Gansu, Ningxia, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Shanxi, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Liaoning, Jilin, Heilongjiang, Henan, Shandong, Hubei, Hunan and other provinces, municipalities and autonomous regions in China have the remains of the ancient Great Wall and beacon towers.

There are many names about the Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty, but Wang Anding of the Qing Dynasty clearly called it the Great Wall in his book "Hunan Army Records" Volume 16 "Pingzhu Military Chapter", saying: "The construction of the Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty covers the Great Wall of the Three Jin, Yan, Qi and even the Qin Dynasty to build the Great Wall to limit the continuation of the strategy of Hu cavalry to resist the enemy." Although during the Qing Dynasty, there was Kangxi's "do not repair the border wall" order, and it was quite famous, but in fact, the scale of the Great Wall of the Qing Dynasty was also quite large, and the geographical span was unprecedented, and its construction scope basically included all provinces north of the Huai River, and the north of the Yellow River was particularly dense.

Because just like the Tang Dynasty, the Great Wall is inside and outside the country, and there is no need to build it, so it has not been built.

It was built very little, because the Great Wall was mainly to prevent the northern minorities, but the Qing Dynasty itself was a minority to enter the customs, and he also incorporated the northern Mongolia into his territory, so he didn't have to protect anyone, so there was no need to repair it.

He had buildings in the Qing Dynasty, but there were very few buildings in the Qing Dynasty, and they were basically built in the previous dynasties.

When the most Bo Cong began to build the Great Wall, it was because he was worried about foreign invasion, and when the Qing Dynasty was in the Qing Dynasty, he felt that the country was strong and there was no worry about external troubles, so he did not plan to overhaul it.

No, because they feel that building the Great Wall will cost a lot of manpower and material resources, and it will not be good for their country's development.

No. The Qing Dynasty did not build the Great Wall because it required a lot of manpower and material resources, as well as a lot of financial resources, so it was not because there was no defensive value that the Great Wall was not built.

The Qing Dynasty conquered the nomadic peoples inside and outside the Great Wall who had plagued the Han Dynasty in the Central Plains for thousands of years, and the inside and outside of the Great Wall were included in the territory and what else needed to be built.

During the Qing Dynasty, there were not too many foreign enemies, and the country was closed and missed the development of the world, so the Great Wall was not built.

The inside and outside of the Great Wall are Chinese territory, and outside of Mongolia, the northern border of China, there is no need to build it at home, and it has no value.