What are the well-preserved historical relics in China?

Cultural relics are historical and cultural relics and remains with historical, scientific and artistic values that remain in society or are buried underground. Cultural relics in the world mainly refer to objects with historical and artistic value over 100 years.

According to the value of cultural relics, China divides cultural relics into national, provincial (municipality directly under the central government) and city-county key cultural relics protection units. The most influential is the Great Wall of Wan Li.

The Great Wall of Wan Li is an ancient military fortress in China. It is a tall, solid and continuous long wall, which is used to limit the riding action of the enemy. The Great Wall is not a simple isolated wall, but a defense system with the wall as the main body and a large number of cities, obstacles, pavilions and landmarks.

The history of the construction of the Great Wall can be traced back to the Western Zhou Dynasty, and the famous allusion "bonfire plays princes" that happened in the capital Haojiang originated from this. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, countries competed for hegemony and defended each other, and the construction of the Great Wall entered its first climax, but the construction length at this time was relatively short.

After Qin destroyed the six countries and unified the world, Qin Shihuang connected and repaired the Great Wall of the Warring States Period, which was called the Great Wall of Wan Li. The Ming Dynasty was the last dynasty to overhaul the Great Wall, and most of the Great Wall seen by people today was built at this time.

For more than two thousand years since the appearance of the Great Wall, the cultural exchange between North and South has never stopped. During the Warring States Period, King Wuling of Zhao built the Great Wall of Zhao, calling on Chinese people to learn "Khufu riding and shooting" and carry out cultural exchanges between the North and the South.

During the Qin and Han dynasties, there was an unprecedented dialogue and exchange between the northern and southern cultures of the Great Wall. Qin Quan and imperial edicts found along the Great Wall, murals of Han tombs in Helinger, Inner Mongolia, Khan and Wadang, and the well-known tomb of Zhaojun, all witnessed the cultural exchange and integration between North and South.

On the cultural belt of the Great Wall, there are many places of interest, such as Dunhuang, Yungang Grottoes, Maijishan and Wanfo Hall Grottoes, murals and sculptures. Yuntai in Juyongguan in Yuan Dynasty, Lugou Bridge in Jin Dynasty, sites and unearthed cultural relics in Jinzhong and Yuandadu all embody the characteristics of cultural exchange and record the cultural glory in the history of the Chinese nation.

The Great Wall plays an irreplaceable role for the world to understand China and China to go global. As early as the Han Dynasty, the Great Wall also played a great role in promoting and protecting cultural exchanges between China and the West.

Since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the western countries, relying on the Great Wall Fortress, it has opened up and maintained a traffic trunk road with a total length of more than 20,000 miles from Chang 'an (now Xi 'an), the capital of the Han Dynasty, to Daqin (now the eastern Mediterranean). This is the famous "Silk Road".

For thousands of years, Chinese and foreign friendship missions have frequently exchanged visits on this ancient road of cultural integration and exchange between China and foreign countries, and they are still playing a role today. Many foreigners know that China started from the Great Wall, which is the best entry point for people from other countries in the world to understand China's history, China's culture and the Chinese nation.

The Great Wall of Wan Li is a magnificent building, which has condensed the wisdom and strength of the Chinese nation for thousands of years and left a precious legacy in human history. From 65438 to 0987, UNESCO officially designated the Great Wall of Wan Li as a world cultural heritage, which proved that the historical, cultural and humanistic values of the Great Wall have been recognized by the world. The Great Wall belongs to both China and the world.