History Essay on Great Wall of Qi

The Great Wall of Qi, located in Shandong Province, is a military protection system built by the Qi people during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, with passes, castles, barracks and beacons set up at the dangerous places along its route. It started from the Yellow River in the west and went east to the sea along the watershed ridge of Taiyi Mountain Range, connecting the Yellow River, Taiyi Mountain and the East China Sea into a line, which became the spine of Qilu Land.

The Great Wall of Qi is the first of its kind in China and even in the world. It was built more than 200 years earlier than the Wei Great Wall (361 B.C.), Zhao Great Wall (333 B.C.), Yan Great Wall (311 B.C.), Chu Great Wall (about 310 B.C. to 292 B.C.) and Qin Great Wall (306 B.C. to 251 B.C.) built during the same period of time; and it was built more than 100 years earlier than the 79-kilometer Athens Barrier Escort Wall built by the Europeans on the Pius Peninsula in 457 B.C. more than 100 years before the walled palisades, and more than 700 years before the Hadrian's and Antonine's Walls built by the Romans in the second century AD.

The Great Wall of Qi was a product of Qi's struggle for supremacy during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods, and took hundreds of years of construction to become the Great Wall of a Thousand Miles. In the middle and late Spring and Autumn period, the State of Qi, for the defense of Jin and Lu countries, first built the western section of the Great Wall of Qi; the beginning of the Warring States period, Qi strong Lu declined, Chu, Yue took advantage of the weakness, Qi was forced to build the eastern section of the Great Wall of Qi; in the middle of the Warring States period, after the destruction of the Yue Chu (335 B.C.) pushed the territory of Qi, forcing the State of Qi in the mountains of Taiyi in order to the mountain dangers instead of a city to build the middle part of the Great Wall of Qi. Since then, the entire Qi Great Wall has been completely renovated.

The "Great Wall of Qi Expedition Team" spent more than a year (October 19, 1996 to October 21, 1997) on foot, measuring the exact total length of the Great Wall of Qi as 643.89 kilometers, or about 1,287.8 miles; of these, 64.3% accounted for the total length with ruins.

The Qi Great Wall meanders over 1,518 peaks, passing through 94 townships and street offices in 18 counties and municipalities, including Changqing, Feicheng, Taishan District, Tai'an Suburbs, Licheng, Zhangqiu, Laiwu, Boshang, Zichuan, Yiyuan, Linqu, Yishui, Anqiu, Juxian, Wulian, Zhucheng, Jiaonan and Huangdao.

The Great Wall of Qi starts from 500 meters northeast of Guangli Village, Xiaoli Town, Changqing County, Jinan City, and is located at 116 degrees and 34.5 minutes east longitude and 36 degrees and 21.6 minutes north latitude; its end point is northeast of Yu Jiahe Village, Huangdao District, Qingdao City, Qingdao City, and enters the sea, and is located at 120 degrees and 11 minutes east longitude and 35 degrees north latitude.

Three duplicate lines of the Great Wall of Qi have been found parallel to the main line of the Great Wall of Qi: one of them is the duplicate line of Dashiguan located in the west section, starting from the Lotus Hill at the south end of Mashan in Changqing, traveling eastward along the boundary line between Changqing and Feicheng, and merging with the main line at Sanchangu, with a length of 9,900 meters; the other one is the 729 plateau starting from the north of Wanglushan in the west, and passing through Qingshiguan, the top of the fortress, Shima, the northern Boshan, the invitation to the Rabbit Cliff and the source of springs, and ending at the junction of Boshan and Zichuan, at the city of Chengcheng, in the north of the border with Zichuan. Zichuan junction of Chengzi Village and the main line together, a length of 31,700 meters; three is the Daguan compound line, located in Linqu, Anqiu territory, west from Linqu and Yishui border neck root leg South Mountain, through the grass Hill Pavilion, Taiping Mountain, Qingshi Hutong, Chengdingshan, picking medicine Hill, Woliu City Hill, to the Yishui and Ju County junction of the Sanlengzishan and the main line together into the territory of Ju County, a length of 63,890 meters.

The Great Wall of Qi main line (main) project stands on the watershed of the Taiyi mountainous region, undulating on the heights of the broken blocks cut by the rupture. Because most of the building in the rare peaks and peaks, so although after more than 2,000 years of wind and rain, the existing site still accounts for 64.3% of the total length, Changqing, Feicheng, Zhangqiu, Yishui, Anqiu, Jiaonan and other counties and cities Qi Great Wall site accounted for more than 80%. Qi Great Wall in addition to wind and rain erosion and Qin Shi Huang completed the unification of the great cause in order to prevent the split again and ordered the demolition of part of the wall, passes, the rest of the wall was destroyed most of the things that happen in modern times: one is the war of the alteration and handling; two is the establishment of the country to engage in the "Dazhai field", national defense projects, road construction and mining; three is the development of mountainous areas, the construction of new villages and the grazing people tear down the wall! The third is the development of mountainous areas, the construction of new villages and the removal of walls by graziers and enclosures, as well as the mountain people to lift the stone to catch scorpions, digging medicine.

The Great Wall of Qi is one of the most influential military defenses in Chinese and foreign history, and is the oldest, grandest and best-preserved ancient architectural site at home and abroad. Comparable to the Great Wall, the Qi Great Wall is one of the symbols of the 5000-year history of Chinese civilization and a representative cultural heritage in the history of Eastern and world civilization, with high historical value, scientific value and unique cultural and artistic value.