Posted on 07/03/2015 12:01:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Construction first begun in the third century BC, but nearly 6,300 kilometres were built in the Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644, including the much-visited sectors north of the capital Beijing. Of that, 1,962 kilometres has withered away over the centuries, the Beijing Times reported.
Some of the construction weathered away, while plants growing in the walls have accelerated the decay, said the report Sunday, citing a survey last year by the Great Wall of China Society. "Even though some of the walls are built of bricks and stones, they cannot withstand the perennial exposure to wind and rain," the paper quoted Dong Yaohui, a vice president of the society, as saying. "Many towers are becoming increasingly shaky and may collapse in a single rain storm in summer." Tourism and local residents' activities are also damaging the longest human construction in the world, the paper added.
Poor villagers in Lulong county in the northern province of Hebei used to knock thick grey bricks from a section of wall in their village to build homes, and slabs engraved with Chinese characters were sold for 30 yuan ($4.80) each by local residents, it said. Under Chinese regulations people who take bricks from the Great Wall can be fined up to 5,000 yuan, the state-run Global Times said Monday. "But there is no specific organisation to enforce the rules. Damage could only be reported to higher authorities and it is hard to solve when it happened on the border of two provinces," said Jia Hailin, a cultural relics protection official in Hebei, according to the report. It added that explorations of undeveloped parts of the Great Wall -- an increasingly popular leisure activity in recent years -- had brought those sections more tourists than they could bear, damaging them severely.
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Any moment now the Free Republic Anti-Fence Platoon will storm the thread telling us that this is proof fences don’t work.
Hell this one only lasted a few thousand years.
Construction first begun in the third century BC, but nearly 6,300 kilometres were built in the Ming Dynasty of 1368-1644...One of the dumber things that has happened in recent years is the emergence of the foolish claim that Marco Polo never went to China. One of the big points often made is, MP never mentions the Great Wall.
LOL!
The Hidden Journal of the Man Who Entered China Four Years Before Marco Polo
by Jacob D'Ancona
tr by David Selbourne
by Xin Xu
tr by Beverly Friend
illus by Ting Cheng
reviewed
by Frances Wood
Hardcover
Paperback
“Chairman Mao! TEAR DOWN THIS WALL!” ;)
Fences work and I have experienced it. Prior to the latest being built in San Diego County we were being overrun here in East County. I haven't seen an ILLEGAL alien near my home since as they have all moved further east into the desert where there is no fencing.
I wonder...how many of those who defended La Raza Rick Perry's anti fence position now support a fence because liberal Donald Trump is for it. They only opposed it because their pro-ILLEGAL alien governor Perry did so I'm sure there are some.
It’s because of Glow Bull War Ming!
Funny thing about the wall is the emperor let the enemy in.
Sound familiar?
LOL
After the Wall was built, guards were easily bribed and foreign armies were allowed to climb to the other side.
I hate to say this about a group of people,
but I know something here. I spent 5 years
in Greater China and I’m married into it.
The Chinese are very short-term oriented.
They will feed their children rotten food
to save 5 cents. They will despoil their
environment with nary a thought for what
they are giving the next generation because
they NEED to get rich NOW.
In parts of Taiwan, farmers made a LOT of
money raising shrimp in shrimp ponds. They
extracted fresh water from the underground
aquifers. Lots of people got rich, and that
attracted more. The natural underground waters
were being drained away. They bribed officials
charged with slowing this down to avert disaster.
The end result: 1. when the fresh water was depleted
the salt water from the seas nearby came in and
ruined the aquifers. 2. In the inland areas,
they created sinkholes that sucked in rural apartment
buildings and businesses.
All this to get rich in the short term.
I have many other examples, but just know that
many of them will shaft others and the next
generation for a quick benefit today.
Instead of buying bricks for building their homes,
the Chinese are using the bricks made thousands of
years ago by their ancestors to build the Great Wall,
thereby ruining a precious national historical
monument. This is easily in fitting with the national
character, sad to say. These farmers know what they
are doing and they just don’t care about anything
but saving a buck today.
Cultural commies are doing the same: make the homosexuals
feel good today about their rotten sin and damn the next
generation.
The Great Wall of China no longer keeps invaders out, nor state slaves in. What good is it except for tourists?
I say the EPA should contact the Chicoms to have the wall taken down for environmental reasons (i.e. habitat corridors, fly ways, water ways, etc.).
I wonder if the White Hut has that petition on its web site?
5.56mm
I CONFESS!!!
I did it. I love to do it. And given half a chance...
I’D DO IT AGAIN!!!!!!!!
Anything to keep actual conservatives out of power, we can count on the same group to be there doing it.
Indeed. There are those who support liberal democRAT Donald Trump while attacking conservative Ted Cruz.
Trump is far worse than Romney ever was.
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