Week 9 : History of China --- Geraldine

Hey readers! We were told to choose a picture, share our thoughts about it and its importance in China history. So this is the picture I have chosen:

Yup, the Great Wall of China.

The Great Wall of China is a really magnificent structure to me, and also something that up till today I still think is something really amazing because... it just didn't seem to be possible to build such a great structure whereby it's so long that no one can finish exploring the whole structure without getting extremely tired and thirsty. So I feel that it's a really great achievement of the Chinese to be able to build such a huge structure that must have taken a lot of hard work and sacrifices and we should all appreciate its presence and not take it lightly because its simply done by the hard work of many people and having such a structure around is a really rare thing.

Well, so just a little bit about its background, the Great Wall's construction began under the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty following the unification of China in 221 B.C. The individual states of Northern China already had been building their own walls for several centuries, and the emperor ordered them linked.Construction of the Great Wall spanned nearly two millennia, continuing until the Ming Dynasty in the 1500s. Over that time, more than 20 dynasties built the wall according to the technology of their time, and the Ming Dynasty built most of the wall that remains today. It is built for defense of the Chinese.

• The Great Wall would be important to the Chinese because it is important to their history and is also one of the seven wonders of the world, which they should feel fortunate and honored to have in their own country.

  • One thing I feel that we can learn from this Great Wall is perseverance because only if we do not give up will we then be able to succeed in our goals,succeed in making an achievement. Without the Chinese' perseverance and hard work, the Great Wall would not have been completed or existed. There wouldn't be a structure called the Great Wall of China.