The Most Popular Tourism Great Wall - Badaling

As a symbol of Chinese civilization, the Great Wall was listed as one of the Seven Wonders of the World. The Great Wall functioned as a fortification in ancient times.

Introduction of Badaling Great Wall

Badaling Great Wall got its name because it’s easily accessible and easy walking conditions. As its name implies it gives access to every direction.

Badaling Great Wall is located on the ridges of Jundu Mountains in Yanqing County, more than 60 kilometers northwest from Beijing. As the most representative part, Badaling Great Wall was promoted as a key national cultural relic. The mountain slope is very steep and the roads are tortuous. Badaling Great Walls were constructed by bar stones and bricks along the top of mountains. These features made it a military stronghold. Badaling Great Wall is like a strong dragon winding its way along the mountain ranges. At the strategic points, there are city platforms, wall platforms and watching towers. The inside of the wall has been formed by tampering earth and small stones, which makes the wall very firm and strong. Internally, the wall is about six meters wide, which would allow horses to gallop five abreast.

Buildings on Badaling Great Wall

There are many holes on the top of Badaling Great Wall called watch-hole, and peepholes under the wall called embrasures. About 1 meter high, the inner parapet was used to prevent the horses and gharries from overturning from the mountains. Along the wall, there are many beacon towers. They were used to transmit military message. Fire and smoke were the most efficient ways for communication in those pre-electricity days. One shot with one smoke meant the enemy was about 100 men; two shots with two smokes meant 500 men and three shots with three smokes meant more than 1,000 men. By this way, a message could be transmitted over more than five hundred kilometers within a few hours.

Changeful view of Badaling Great Wall 

Enjoy a high reputation, Badaling Great Wall shows very different scenery during the four seasons in Beijing. If you are interested in the recovery atmosphere, then visit Badaling Great wall in spring and summer; interested in the charming scenery of red leaves, then never miss the autumn in Badaling Great Wall; you'd like to feel its solemn and original feature, then come in winter.

Badaling Great Wall is the best preserved and the most visited amongst all the sections of Great Wall. Once it is used as military defense outpost of the Great Wall, and it is also a symbol of the brilliance of China’s ancient culture and a pride of the Chinese nation. If you have limited time in Beijing, Badaling Great Wall is a good choice.