Jiumenkou great wallHello, every one, welcome to here for your sightseeing. This great wall was situated in the combination of liaoning and hebei provinces. It is located in the lijiabao village in huludao city. It is 12.5km from shanhaiguan in the south, 62.5km from the suizhong city in the east. it is one of the important pass in ming dynasty. It is famous for it is founded on month of jiujiang river. In 2002, the UNESCO titled it as the world cultural relics. In the ancient time, it is called the yipianshi. It is first founded in 1381, and has been rebuild during jintai, longqing, and wanly ages. As it is situated in the low valley, the water runs from west to east, and then to bohai sea. In 1577, some people write “tianxiadiyiguan”here according to the important position it occupied, which means the first pass in the world. Then, the great wall became more and more famous, now, please follow me to visit this special great wall.With a long history, this great wall has suffered a lot, the damage is not from the natural but also from the people, especially for the war. In 1985, 12medias in liaoning called on people to donate to rebuild this great wall according to the inscription put by dengxiaoping in sep, 1984. after 4 years, the rebuilding project was finished in November, 1989. what we see now, is a tablet of merits, the companies and the persons name who have contribute to the rebuilding of the great wall have be carved in it. There are 3 hands holding 3 bricks on the tablet, which means that 30,000,000 liaoning people each donate a brick for its rebuilding. Above the tablet, there carved several characteristics write by dengxiaoping, in English it means that build my great wall and love my country. Below the tablet it is the briefs of jiumenkou and the something about its rebuilding. The whole tablet is designed exquisite and novel, just like a war ship take its voyage against the wind.This is the number 2 stone on the great wall, a part of the stone is still preserved as it was used to be. This is preserved in the big rebuilding project in the 1980s, it now has offered scientific proof for the rebuilding project. The river bed is made up of 12,000 big stones and 4400 iron reams. It made up of a 7700 square meters stone floor. Under this floor there has been put some stones already, and there has been put some wood piles. Now, there still exist some piles, the longest one is 3m and the biggest one’s diameter is 25centimeters. According to the expert, this is the accurate place where the yipianshi used to be.Jiumenkou great wall is quite different from other great wall in China. normally speaking, the great wall would be built along the mountain while this one just cross the river. Each of the city gate is 5m wide, 7m high, the crenel is 10m high, on both of the fort there are 7holes, this structure is quite different compared with others. When in the dry season, the gates were closed to defend the enemies, when in the rainy season, the gates were opened to let out the water, at this time, the view here is quite breathtaking.Jiumenkou great wall is not only large in seize but also quite solid, it can also be compared with the juyong pass and the badalin. The wall is made of bricks, the width in the top is 5m and 6m in the down part, it is 6m high, outside of the wall there are crenels. Inside the wall there are parapets. The defensive equipment here is quite intensive. There are 12 warth towers, 4 bench tables, 4 sentry posts, 2 beacon towers and 1 castle.This is the besieged city, the local people call it water dungeon. It is found in Ming dynasty, it has two function, first, it provide a better place for shoot when the enemies surrounded here, second, it can used to keep the prisoners. This is the great wall tunnel of ming dynasty. When the great wall has been built, they opened a tunnel secretly here. This tunnel is 1027m long, with on entry and two exits, in the tunnel there are 29 caves for different use, such as for store food, weapons, for practice, for eat, and even for offer sacrifices to god. It can hold about 2000people, inside the tunnel, there are drainage system and ventilation, so it can guarantee the soldiers in it can move around freely. The Qing win the war in the ancient time by this tunnel.In 1644, after the peasant insurrectionary army occupied Beijing, they occupied here immediately. However the Qing army can’t defeat them, they catched a soilder of Ming and know the position of this tunnel, so they send soildiers through the tunnel and win the campaign. Apart from that war, in 1922 and 1924, the zhi and feng army fight here too, in the liberation war, the PLA also fight here.。
