【正文】 vince in the west. It passes nine cities, provinces and autonomous regions.
The functions of the Great Wall in Chinese history are in four aspects, they are in military, economy, perfect harmony of various nationalities and the friendship between Asians and Europeans.
The structures of the Great Wall are the beacon tower and watch tower. Beacon towers were built on both sides of the Wall at the manding points, which were at the top of the mountains or the twists and turns for making warning signals. Whenever the enemy was sighted, fires were lit on the top of the beacon tower at night, and the smoke was made during the daytime. Watch towers were built at regular intervals on the Great Wall itself for watching over the invading enemy. A watch tower was usually two stories high, and the defense soldiers lived inside. The ground floor was used for storing weapons and had a number of windows for archers. The upper floor had battlements, peep holes and apertures for archers. In the middle of the tower there were small living quarters for the defense soldiers. The watch towers were not only used by the defending troops to take shelter from the wind, rain and heat, but also to fight and check the enemy’s advance, and store arms and ammunition.
Next I’m very glad to introduce the Badaling section. It was listed as an important historical monument under special preservation by the Chinese government in 1961 and was listed by the UNESCO as one of the world heritage sites in 1987.
The Badaling Great Wall is about 75 kilometers northwest of Beijing, and it is the best preserved part of the Great Wall. Bada means “convenient transportation to all directions. ”The Great Wall at Badaling average meters high, meters wide at its base, and meters on the top, wide enough for five horses or ten soldiers walking abreast on the wall. It has one side with battlements and the parapet is on the other side. The side with the battlements is about 2 meters high, and the parapet is one meter high. The outer side of the Wall is topped with crenellated battlements, and a square sized hole below for shooting arrows and also for keeping a watch over the enemy. The parapet is on the inner side.
Juyongguan Pass is located 50 kilometers northwest of downtown Beijng. There was a 20kilomerelong valley called “Guangou Valley” from south to north, with 4 passes along the valley. They were of great strategic importance in defending the national capital, Juyongguan Pass is one of them.
Inside Juyong Pass there is an ancient marble platform known as “Cloud Terrace”. It was built in Yuan Dynasty. There used to be three Tibetan style pagodas built on the terrace with a road passing under it from north to south. Later, when the pagodas were destroyed, a temple was built. However, the temple was burnt down in a fire in the early years of the Qing Dynasty, so only the terrace remained. The Cloud Terrace is
meters high, meters from east to west, meters from north to south at the base, and it narrows towards the top. In the middle edge of the archway, there is a carving of a “golden winged bird” with the carvings of several animals. Inside the arched passage, there are carved in relief Buddhist images on the wall. The images of the Four Heavenly Kings, the Buddha of Ten Directions and 1,000 Buddha statues were all carved on the wall.
Today on the way to Badaling Great Wall, you can see a railway running by the Badaling Expressway. It is wellknown at the BeijingZhangjiakou Railway. It was the first railway designed and constructed by Chinese itself. Its chief designer was Zhan Tianyou.
篇三：外語導(dǎo)游詞：長城英文導(dǎo)游詞
TheGreatWall
TheGreatWall,likethePyramidsofEgypt,theTajMahal(1)inIndiaandtheHangingGardenofBabylon(2),theWallstretcheswestwardsfor12,700kilometerstoJiayuguanintheGobidesert,twistsandturnsalongtheridgesoftheYanshanandYinshanMountainChainsthroughfiveprovincesLiaoning,Hebei,Shanxi,