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Badaling used to be the pass,it became the area outside a city gate at late.Longqing three years (1569) to the construction of the barrier plug Wanli (1582) in each port. And built a border town in the mouth on both sides of the mountains, shoot the wall, block horse wall.Then gradually increased to the Great Wall, and the construction of fortresses, Piers. From sichuan top primrose, the stone buddhist temple mouth, tsing lung destination mouth, tsing lung gulouxiaoxi mouth, king valley mouth, badaling melon mouth, wooden beams of mouth, on the home, black beans taniguchi surprise to shixia valley, it is about 12 kilometers long. The Great Wall at badaling, GuanCheng, walls, a fortress, and closing the ditch the juyongguan consist of a full military defense systems Ming dynasty of Beijing.

Fork city

Military facilities in the Ming Dynasty ruins. Municipal units. In Badaling town fork in the village. Three decades, built in the Ming Jiajing (1551), and the Khanh five years (1571) re-reinforcement package brick in the wall. Entire castles irregular rectangle, the mountain was built from east to west 449 meters, 185 meters wide from north to south, located east, north, west gate, north gate to the false door. Walls 8.5 meters high, was constructed from stone, bricks, lime and rammed earth, on the city battlements, looking mouth, the south wall there are two beacon towers. The only part of the south wall and the west gate tower, the Ming Dynasty stone inscriptions pay homage to the monument.

Cannons

Exhibition in the Badaling off the city board the city at the entrance to the horse road, a total of five Lilium is one of the advanced weapons. The biggest barrel of a by which is 2.85 meters long, 105 mm caliber with a range of km or more, a great power. The gun body engraved with the words "Chici divinity General manufacturing Ming Dynasty the Chongzhen ten year (1638). The gun is shipped from the in Badaling east more than ten years Zhangbao local 1958. The four corbels small gun for the refurbishment of the Great Wall in 1957, when archaeological finds, but also to explore the hundreds of shells, both the Ming Dynasty products. "Wu Bei Zhi" records: "Ancient machine hair stone, its machine of a wooden frame, shaped like a tiger squatting and later the artillery gun barrel a short while thick, to issue a flowering bomb who, name tiger squatting gun, commonly known as the frog gun." we can see the arms in general.

The pass

The Badaling off east of the city outside a temple, Wangjing Temple the Shiyan hewn grief and statues; West Gate stand arch banners book drive Hu Miles. Koji 18 years (1505) by when slightly Frontier supreme court Shaoqing Wu has always been built off the city, the Temple and the arch were demolished. Guan City, located east and west close to the lower part of the west wall of more than 10 layers of granite stone assembled, the upper assemble large bricks. The wall is 20 meters wide, 17 m thick, 7.8 meters high; the top of the rectangular city of Taiwan, 19.8 meters long, 14.15 meters wide, covering an area of 280.17 square meters, surrounded by built-yu Qiangduo mouth. City, Taiwan on both sides of 30 to 40 meters, built fortresses one connected to the wall off the city constitute a horn trend. Connected to the western wall on both sides of the two North and South walls, two walls were built in the top of the ridge, low in the east west, into a U-shaped, the encounter at the East Gate. Walls 3.3 meters thick, the circumference of 2070 meters and 7.6 meters high. What door a distance of 63.9 meters, the city area of about 5000 square meters. Jiajing 18 years (1539) established the East Gate, gate amount of the book "Ju Yong outside the town"; the Wanli decades Li Simon, door amount of the book "North Gate lock and key, are preserved.

Walls

Badaling Great Wall, the walls 6 to 9 meters high, flat trapezoid, the bottom width of 6.5 to 7.5 m, top width of 4.5 to 5.8 m. Most of the top of the wall is broad and flat, can be "five horses and riding, ten parallel"; Tsing Lung Bridge area, the mountain steep insurance, and a narrow top of the wall, the narrowest point is only two meters. The walls of the center line are somewhat lateral, high lateral wall, medial wall. The package build walls on both sides of the granite stone bar width 0.5 m, 0.4 m, length ranging from 0.8 to 1 meters, the longest stone up to 3.1 meters and weighs 1.5 to 1.7 tons. Regardless of the steep slopes or flat lots, stone are layer level assembled, criss-cross, thrown over the vertical barrier, bite the synthetic one, the commissure filling to mortar. Wall filled with mud, stones, real ram smashed. Wall body for three to four layers of bricks, with lime paste adhesive pouring. The surface of the city, paved with tiles, so that the top of the wall formation. The wall is 0.4 meters long, 0.2 meters wide, 0.1 m thick, weighing 15 kg per brick, built into the ladder Road, easy up and down steep, steep lots. The top of the wall on both sides of brick parapet walls, the outside call battlements or stack wall, the inside called Yu-wall or parapet. Crib wall to meet the enemy face, 1.7 to 2 m high wall, easy to cover the body, usually in the human chest height began to build forts, battlements between the distance of about 1 m. The battlements of brick is a special side is the hypotenuse, the code in the mouth, was a fan-shaped, wide outside to observe the surface. The upper part of the block stack with Outlook Kong. Perforating the wall of lower part of the puzzle has to archery stoning.

Watch tower

43 Total fortresses of the Badaling Great Wall, the shape is similar to their own characteristics, including wall units patrolling, also on the enemy units in a two-tier, upper located around the battlements and shot hole, the lower accommodation and storage of supplies for soldierspremises. Taiwan Fort distance from the mountain and terrain. General fortresses for a two-tier, 10 meters in height, length and width are 10 m. All masonry, the top of the first and second floors made a lot of arch, stairways up and down. The two layers are firing ports, the look-mouth and spit Tap upstairs Duokou, Taiwan prominent wall, to close within the walls in Taiwan. Fixed 16 watchtowers of the South on the fourth floor, north on the fourth floor, and the North fifth floor.

1)North and South on the fourth floor. Located off the south of the two peaks, South, North each have four fortresses, is the first open tour of the lot.
2)North fifth floor. Coupons hole up to the watch tower. The floor is 9.25 m long, 9.34 meters wide, and lower layers.
3)North sixth floor. Area of the largest fortresses. Floor, 12.6 m long, 8.5 meters wide, the bottom area of about 100 square meters.
4)North eighth floor. Altitude of 888 meters, the watch tower for the highest altitude of the Great Wall at Badaling.
5)Has a shop round the fortresses.

Piers

Also known as beacon towers. Badaling Great Wall of Eastern, Western Hills, each with a pier.

City Desk

Also known as wall units. That slightly higher than the Great Wall, the top of the wall around the puzzle platform for construction of the battlement walls, battlements, and shot hole. This ancient soldiers patrolling, as well as the entrenched defense of the war.Badaling off the Shing Mun top of the platform.

War Taiwan

Construction of transport routes along the Great Wall or the difficult terrain of the bunker-style building, one, two, three points of various sizes. Within the storage of weapons, ammunition and other strategic materials, larger than the watch tower