what is the great wall of china called in the chinese language?
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The Great Wall of China (Simplified Chinese: 万里长城; Traditional Chinese: 萬里長城; Hanyu Pinyin: Wànlĭ Chángchéng; literally "10,000 Li¹ long wall")
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it is chinese. very Very (hen twice) beautiful,na ma na=that, and ma= a question word to end it.
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Wall March and Wall April
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tonymacroni, another great question, and here is the answer:\n\nGreat Wall of China\n\nA landfill in North America\n\nThe pyramids\n\nHoover Dam\n\nJoan Rivers face\n\nPat Boones shoes\n\nJimmy Hoffas grave\n\nI hope this answers your question....
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http://www.travelchinaguide.com/china_great_wall/\n\nNo one can tell precisely when the building of the Great Wall was started but it is popularly believed that it originated as a military fortification against intrusion by tribes on the borders during the earlier Zhou Dynasty. Late in the Spring and Autumn Period (770 BC - 476 BC), the ducal states extended the defence work and built "great" structures to prevent the attacks from other states. It was not until the Qin Dynasty that the separate walls, constructed by the states of Qin, Yan and Zhao kingdoms, were connected to form a defensive system on the northern border of the country by Emperor Qin Shi Huang (also called Qin Shi Huangdi by westerners or the First Emperor). After the emperor unified the country in 214 BC, he ordered the construction of the wall. It took about ten years to finish and the wall stretched from Linzhao (in the eastern part of today's Gansu Province) in the west to Liaodong (in today's Jilin Province) in the east. The wall not only served as a defence in the north but also symbolized the power of the emperor.
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China has a wall, why can't we?
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The Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. \n\nThe first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property. \n\n\nThere have been four major walls: \n\n\n208 BC (the Qin Dynasty) \n1st century BC (the Han Dynasty) \n\n1138 - 1198 (the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms Period) \n\n1368-1620 (from Hongwu Emperor until Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty)\n\nThe Ming Dynasty Great Wall starts on the eastern end at Shanhai Pass, near Qinhuangdao, in Hebei Province, next to Bohai Gulf. Spanning nine provinces and 100 counties, the final 500 kilometers have all but turned to rubble, and today it ends on the western end at the historic site of Jiayu Pass, located in northwest Gansu Province at the limit of the Gobi Desert and the oases of the Silk Road. Jiayu Pass was intended to greet travelers along the Silk Road. Even though The Great Wall ends at Jiayu Pass, there are many watchtowers extending beyond Jiayu Pass along the Silk Road. These towers communicated by smoke to signal invasion. \n\nThe Kokes Manchus crossed the Wall by convincing an important general Wu Sangui to open the gates of Shanhai Pass and allow the Manchus to cross. Legend has it that they took three days for the Manchu armies to pass. After they conquered China, the Wall was of no strategic value as the people whom the Wall was intended to keep out were ruling the country (becoming the Qing Dynasty). \n\nThe government ordered people to work on the wall, and workers were under perpetual danger of being attacked by brigands. Because many people died while building the wall, it has obtained the gruesome title, "longest cemetery on Earth" or "the long graveyard". Their bodies were not entombed in the wall, however. A body buried in the wall would have weakened its structure, so workers were buried nearby instead. \n\nWhile some portions near tourist centers have been preserved and even reconstructed, in most locations the Wall is in disrepair, serving as a playground for some villages and a source of stones to rebuild houses and roads. Sections of the Wall are also prone to graffiti. Parts have been bulldozed because the Wall is in the way of construction projects. \n\nThe materials used are those available near the site of construction. Near Beijing the wall is constructed from quarried limestone blocks. In other locations it may be quarried granite or fired brick. Where such materials are used, two finished walls are erected with earth and rubble fill place
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Check Discovery and A&E group shows.  The Great Wall is actually lots of walls built over a long period of time using varying techniques according to technology, terrain, and available materials.
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The Chinese Wall.\n\nIf this is the best answer, please vote it the best answer. Thanks!
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there are *three* different words,\n\n"ryuu" is the most common - it comes from the Chinese word long2.\n\n"tatsu" is the native Japanese word that is rarely used anymore.\n\n"doragon" is borrowed from English and is used whenever refering to a western style dragon.
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That's a qualified yes. There are sections on the wall that are impassable. So, you'd have to walk next to the wall for some of these portions.  You can see a picture of such an impassable area outside of Mutianyu at my website here - \n\nhttp://www.mikeschubert.com/china/Beijing/pages/105_0596.htm\nhttp://www.mikeschubert.com/china/Beijing/pages/IMG_2288.htm\nhttp://www.mikeschubert.com/china/Beijing/index_2.htm\n\nIf memory serves me correctly, there is a british man who has walked the length 3 times, starting at the desert and ending at the sea. A pair of American college students did it back in 2000.
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(m)\n\nThe Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region. \n\nThe first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property.
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A well built wall will also become a tourist attraction.  Look at all of the people who travel to China and visit the Great Wall.  (My friend went to China and visited the wall.  She said it is a major attraction.)\n\nWhat an idea.
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The answer is in the following link:\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/China
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St. Ignatius Cathedral of Shanghai (聖依納爵主教座堂) also referred to as Xujiahui Cathedral (徐家汇天主教堂).\n\nWith love in Christ.
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Officially it is Beijing.Peking is the name of the city romanized in Postal System Pinyin, and the traditional customary name for Beijing in English. The term originated with French missionaries four hundred years ago, and corresponds to an older pronunciation predating a subsequent sound change in Mandarin from [kʲ] to [tɕ]. ([tɕ] is represented in pinyin as j, as in Beijing.)\n\nIn China, the city has had many names. Between 1928 [1] and 1949, it was known as Beiping (北平; Pinyin: Beiping; Wade-Giles: Pei-p'ing), literally "Northern Peace". \n\nThe Communist Party of China reverted the name to Beijing (Peking) in 1949 again in part to emphasize that Beijing had returned to its role as China's capital. The government of the Republic of China on Taiwan has never formally recognized the name change, and during the 1950s and 1960s it was common in Taiwan for Beijing to be called Peiping to imply the illegitimacy of the PRC. Today, almost all of Taiwan, including the ROC government, uses Beijing, although some maps of China from Taiwan still use the old name along with pre-1949 political boundaries.
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a russian is called a cosmonaut\na chinese is called a taikonaut