Juyan Fortress of Great Wall
Built in 102 BC in the Han Dynasty (206BC – 220), relics of Juyan Fortress of the Chinese Great Wall were scattered along the two banks of the Ejina River in Jinta County in Gansu Province, and to the north of Jinsi Tunao (the place’s name in Mongolian) in Inner Mongolia.Most of the Juyan Han wooden slips are Great Wall garrison files from between the last years of the Wudi Reign (157BC – 141BC) of the Western Han Dynasty to the middle of the Eastern Han Dynasty.
The new wooden slips were unearthed between 1972 and 1976. The over 20,000 wooden slips were discovered in Pochengzi, Jiaqusai and Jianshui Jinguan by a Juyan archaeological team. Currently they are kept in the Gansu Provincial Museum, except for hundreds of scattered pieces left among the people.
 Juyan Fortress |
 Juyan Fortress |
Juyan wooden slips recording events of the Han Dynasty can be divided into the old and the new ones by the time they were unearthed. The old wooden slips were discovered in Diwan, Dawan and Pochengzi of the Juyan area in 1930 by Bergmann, a member of the Sino-Swedish Expedition to Northwest China. There are over 10,000 slips, most of which were made of wood, except for a few bamboo slips. Now these old slips are kept in Taiwan.
Juyan Forest involves the garrison, border defense, combat service, administrative system and the lives of soldiers’ families.
Gansu Great Wall List |
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| Dunhuang Great Wall of Han Dynasty | Jiayuguan Great Wall |
| Juyan Fortress of Great Wall | Overhanging Great Wall |
| Shandan Great Wall |
Yangguan Great Wall |
| Yumenguan Great Wall |
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