Badaling Great Wall, known as one of the world nine Cypriot, is the essence of the Great Wall, the Ming Great Wall is one of the most representative. This is a crucial point in the Great Wall Pass outpost, 1015 meters high above sea level, difficult terrain, Chengguan strong, has always been contested. Originally Badaling Pass, built after the city shut. Longqing three years (1569) to Wanli decade (1582) at the mouth of the construction of barrier plug, and built the port side of the mountain border town, shoot the wall, retaining walls and other horses, then gradually build the Great Wall, and the construction of watch tower, piers.

Badaling is the history of the witness of many important events. First EmperorQin Shi Huang east Tateishi, from Badaling via Datong, and then drive back to Xianyang. Xunxing Empress Xiao, Yuan Taizu entry, Yuan Emperor twice a year, both from Beijing and between the Northern Expedition, the Ming emperor, Li Zicheng captured Beijing, the Qing emperor foreign crusades, etc., all must pass through Badaling, modern Tears in the West to escape the history of Empress Badaling, represented in the construction of China Badaling self-hosted the first railway built in Beijing - Zhang Railway, Sun Yat-sen board Badaling Great Wall and so on, for today and left a number of historical allusions precious memories.

Wall: Badaling Great Wall, the wall 6-9 meters high, flat trapezoid. Most of the broad top of the wallFlat, you can "five horses and riding, ten parallel." Tsing Lung Bridge area, steep hill insurance, top of the wall is narrow, the narrowest point is only 2 meters. Biased towards the outer wall of the center line, the high lateral wall, medial wall is low. Article by granite walls on both sides of pack puzzle, the longest stone section of 3.1 meters and weighing 1.5-1.7 tons. Either steep slopes or flat lot, stone layer shall have the level of Lei Qi, criss-cross, Hengjia vertical barrier, bite in one, the mortar filling commissure. Wall filled soil, stones, with rammer hit reality. 3-4 layer of body wall bricks, pouring with lime paste adhesive. City paved surface with a wall, so that top of the wall formation. In the steep slope of the larger lots, buildingInto the stairway, easy to bottom. Top of the wall on both sides of a brick parapets, battlements, or stack called the lateral walls, parapet walls or inside buildings called. Pile wall is to meet the enemy face, walls 1.7-2 m high, easy to cover the body, usually beginning in the body building Embrasure chest height, the distance between Embrasure about 1 meter. Crenel brick is special, while for the hypotenuse, the code in the mouth, was fan-like, outside the narrow width observed is large.

Watchtowers: There are watch tower 43 Badaling Great Wall, and similar shapes with different features, including patrolling the walls of sets used, there are two layers of the enemy units, located around the upper Embrasure and radio holes, the lower accommodation for soldiers and storage of materialsPremises. Taiwan, the distance between Fort designed based on the mountain and terrain. General watch tower for the two, 10 meters high, both length and width of 10 meters. All the masonry structure, the first and second floors at the top make a lot of arch, up and down a stairway. Two were shot mouth, mouth and spit Outlook Tap, upstairs Embrasure, Taiwan highlight the wall, closing the wall on the desks.

Piers also called beacon. Badaling Great Wall of Eastern, Western Hills, and have a pier. Pier height of Wu Zhang, built around the town, five feet ten feet high, wooden barrier on the set hanging floor, trenches under the bridge, peripheral collapse pit trap; doorway on the home tank, winter Shengbing, summer filled with water; not repair stepsUp and down the ladder; each gun fire, artillery 2, there Shouzu 10 people, from the nearby garrison defending the castle, and castles to form a defense in depth network. Chenghua two years (1466) provides that cite Feng, which represents more than a hundred enemy a beacon of a gun; five hundred people or more two-fung, Second Artillery; more than a thousand three-fung, three guns; more than four thousand four guns Feng; people above five Feng five guns.

City of Taiwan, also known as wall units. Slightly higher than the top of the wall that the Great Wall, surrounded by a battlement wall puzzle, Embrasure, shot holes and other platform-based architecture. This is the ancient soldiers patrolling the place, and the war in defense when guarding the place. For example, gate off the top of BadalingPlatform, is the city of Taiwan.

Battle stations: construction of transport routes along the Great Wall or the difficult terrain of the Department, for the bunker-style building, one, two, three of the points, of various sizes. Can be stored within the weapons, ammunition and other strategic materials, the role of more than a rampart. Also reserve one month';s rations and water and so on. This battle station facilities, can attack, but also entrenched, and the city of Taiwan and the Great Wall, the enemy units and other military facilities in close coordination to form dense network of fire, greatly enhance the combat power, effectively blocking Diji attack Defense on the military strategy and tactics play an important role.

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"Less than the Great Wall is not a true man", boarded the Badaling Great Wall, the Great Wall can be seen at the foot of the mountain on the potential, winding down, but not as a dragon head and tail of the rolling hills in the rain, crawling, magnificent, magnificent , it is just a sigh. Badaling Great Wall Tour Map

Tickets

Adult ticket: CNY45

Child Ticket: CNY20

Tickets for season (April 1 -10 31) 45, low season (November 1 -3 31) 40. Students half price with valid documents. Badaling Cable Car ride from 60.

Opening hours

Summer 6:30-19:00; winter 7:00-18:00.

To provide electronic conductivityTravel services, Chinese 10 Yuan / times, English, Japanese, Korean, French, each for 40 yuan / times.