The Tang Dynasty poet Wang Zun's poem "Song of the Great Wall" wrote about the solidity and grandeur of the Great Wall built by the Qin Empire, and also lamented that such a majestic building could not stop the rapid collapse of the regime, which made people sigh.
The Great Wall, which begins on the shore of the Bohai Sea, is entrenched between the mountains and mountains, and winds over the boundless Gobi. It is not only a physical treasure left by our ancestors to our Chinese descendants, but also the spiritual sustenance of every overseas Chinese traveler, and a beautiful business card of China and Chinese today.
The history of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, when the main purpose was to prevent nomadic tribes such as Rongdi from attacking southward. By the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the countries attacked and defended each other, and the construction of the Great Wall entered the first climax. After Qin destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Qin Shi Huang connected and repaired the Great Wall left by various countries, which gave rise to the "Great Wall" in the true sense.
The Great Wall also played an important role in the defense line of all dynasties.
The reliance of all dynasties on the Great Wall:
The Han Dynasty, relying on the Great Wall, changed from passive to active militarily in the war against the Xiongnu. After hundreds of years of annexation wars in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the people of the Central Plains were able to recuperate, the national spirit began to condense, and the idea of "great unification" became the mainstream.
The two Jin Dynasty, this is the most severe test suffered by the Chinese nation, but the Han people did not sink in the devastation after all, but showed our great assimilation power, and the people living in the Great Wall once again defeated Rong Di.
The Northern Song Dynasty is a typical representative of the Great Wall as the boundary, although it was forced to cede the sixteen states of Yanyun, but never gave up the "three passes" of the Great Wall (Yitou Pass, Ningwu Pass, Yanmen Pass). Because Song knew that losing the Great Wall was equivalent to losing a place to stand.
In the Ming Dynasty, "the king died and the Son of Heaven guarded the country". Relying on the Great Wall, whether it is Zhu Di's five expeditions to Mobei, or in the face of the siege of Beijing by Wara, the Ming Dynasty is standing. In the 276th year of the Ming Dynasty, Guozuo always adhered to the ancestral motto of "no harmony, no tribute, no vassals, and no land", and stuck to the Great Wall.
When Qin Shi Huang completed the unification and hegemony, he began to travel the world, attracted by a popular magic in Qidi, and became interested in seeking immortality. As a result, a scholar named Lu Sheng gradually became a favored vassal of Qin Shi Huang.
Qin Shi Huang spent a lot of manpower and material resources in order to seek the elixir of life, in addition to sending Xu Fu to take three thousand boys and girls to the East China Sea to ask for immortals, he also sent Lu Sheng to perform the same task many times, but each time he returned in vain. In the end, Lu Sheng could no longer perfunctory Qin Shi Huang, and even vainly claimed that he had obtained a shocking secret: "Hu Ye, the Dead Qin".
Lu Sheng's lie that he wanted to hide from the world and shirk responsibility. It didn't come to fruition, but it was approved by Qin Shi Huang.
Because the First Emperor not only did not revel in the achievements of dominating the world, but always had a sense of crisis, the remnants of the Six Kingdoms at home and the Rong Di outside were important threats to the new regime, and he was always looking for how to maintain the long-term stability of the Great Qin Empire. As a result, Qin Shi Huang decided to build and connect the original Great Wall to make it a solid northern defensive line.
The Great Wall of ancient times, with the Great Wall as the boundary, separated from war and peace. Outside the city wall is the Jin Ge Iron Horse, and inside the city wall is more stability and peace.
Today's Great Wall, there is no need to use it to defend against the enemy, it is majestic, let the world know what a miracle is.
The Great Wall is associated with war, but we are a people who build the Great Wall. If we can use the Great Wall to separate the war, we will be able to attack from the Great Wall and defeat all the enemies who come to us!