Qinshihuang Story
221 BC, the Qin Mie six countries, to establish a unified China’s first centralized feudal autocratic dynasty.
The Qin unification of Qin rule, the main threat of the Huns in the north. Huns slave for the lifting of the threat to the Qin dynasty, subsequently launched the war in the north by the Huns, but not fully lift the threat of the Huns of the Qin Dynasty. To safeguard and protect the security of the Central Plains region, defensive Hun slave south plunder and disturbance around the year 214 BC, Qin Shi Huang ordered the construction of the Great Wall.
“Historical Records Mengtian out turn” contains: “Qin and the days have been a wide public Naishi Mengtian a bit of the North by Rong and Di, to close in Henan. Build the Great Wall, because of topography, with the Cypriot insurance system has played Lintao to Liaodong, extension expanse thousand years. then cross the river, according to Yangshan, Wei snake the North. sharp divisions on the outside more than ten years.”
According to historical records and archaeological discoveries in recent years, Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall, is basically the north in the Yan Great Wall, built by King Wuling of Zhao, Zhao and Qin Zhaowang the Great Wall north of the Great Wall built on the basis of a large-scale restoration, and the original Yan , Zhao, Qin Great Wall is not connected to the land fill the gap on the building walls, so that the entire Liaodong from Lintao to the Great Wall as a coherent defense.
Great Wall, Qin Shi Huang roughly as follows: Min County in Gansu Province in the west, north to follow the Tao He Lintao County, from Lintao County border south to the northeast by the Dingxi to Guyuan County. Guyuan to the northeast by the by the Central County, Gansu Province, Shaanxi Province, Jingbian, Yokoyama, Yulin, the tree, and then fold in the north to the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region Tuoketuonan, arrived in the south bank of the Yellow River. The Yellow River to the north of the Great Wall from the western section of Langshan Yinshan Mountains, east-line big northern foot of Castle Peak, continue eastward through Inner Mongolia Jining, hing and to Hebei Shangyi county. By the Hebei Province, Zhang Shangyi to the northeast by the North, paddock Morogata, further east, Fushun, Benxi to the southeast and ends at the Pyongyang chongchon-gang into the sea at the north-west.
Qin Shi Huang in the overhaul of the Great Wall at the same time, ordered the Warring States period to the princes built the Great Wall of separatist self-defense all the demolition.
Has been since the Spring and Autumn, the princes States had built the Great Wall, but its length varies from a few hundred years, many have only two to three thousand, only Emperor Qin Shi Huang built the Great Wall is the Lane Yuwan above since the start, known as the Great Wall(Wan Li Chang Cheng).
