GREAT WALL OF CHINA - THE HAN THROUGH YUAN ADMINISTRATIONS
During the rule of the Han head Wudi (141–87 BCE), the divider was reinforced as a component of a general mission against the Xiongnu.
From that period the Great Wall likewise added to the abuse of farmland in northern and western China and to the development of the shipping lane that came to be known as the Silk Road. In 121 BCE a 20-year venture of development was begun the Hexi Wall (for the most part known as the Side Wall) between Yongdeng (presently in Gansu) in the east and Lake Lop Nur (presently in Xinjiang) in the west. As demonstrated by Juyan Hanjian ("Juyan Correspondence of the Han"), the strongpoints set up along the divider included "a reference point every 5 li, a zenith every 10 li, a fortress every 30 li, and a castle every 100 li."The basic work on the divider during the Dong (Eastern) Han period
(25–220 CE) happened during the standard of Liu Xiu (Guangwudi), who in 38
organized the upkeep of four equivalent lines of the Great Wall in the space
south of the Hexi Wall. The Great Wall served for defend just as to focus
control of trade and travel.
During the Bei (Northern) Wei line (386–534/535 CE), the Great Wall
was fixed and connected as a protection from attacks from the Juan-juan and
Khitan groups in the north. As shown by Wei shu: Mingyuandi Ji ("History
of Wei: Chronicle of Emperor Mingyuan"), in 417, the eighth year of the
standard of Mingyuandi (409–423), a piece of the Great Wall was gathered south
of Changchuan, from Chicheng (as of now in Hebei) to Wuyuan (as of now in Inner
Mongolia) in the west, expanding more than 620 miles (1,000 km). During the
rule of Taiwudi (423–452), a lower and more slender mass of smashed earth was
worked around the capital as a supplement to the Great Wall. Beginning from
Guangling in the east, it stretched out toward the eastern side of the Huang
He, shaping a circle around Datong. In 549, after the Dong Wei realm moved its
capital east to Ye, it additionally assembled a section of the Great Wall in
the space of contemporary Shanxi area.
To invigorate its northern edges and keep interruption from the
west by the Bei Zhou, the Bei Qi domain (550–577) dispatched a couple of
significant improvement projects that were near as broad in scope as the
structure ventures of the Qin administration. In 552 a portion was based on the
northwestern boundary, and just three years after the fact the sovereign
arranged the enrollment of 1.8 million laborers to fix and expand different
segments. The development occurred between the south entry of Juyong Pass
(close to present day Beijing) and Datong (in Shanxi). In 556 another
stronghold was set up in the east and reached out to the Yellow Sea. The next
year a subsequent divider was worked inside the Great Wall inside current
Shanxi, starting nearby Laoying east of Pianguan, reaching out toward the east
past Yanmen Pass and Pingxing Pass, and finishing off with the space around
Xiaguan in Shanxi. In 563 the ruler Wuchengdi of the Bei Qi had a section fixed
along the Taihang Mountains. That is the piece of the Great Wall found today
close by around Longguan, Guangchang, and Fuping (in Shanxi and Hebei). In 565
the inward divider worked in 557 was fixed, and another divider was added that
began nearby Xiaguan, reached out to the Juyong Pass in the east, and afterward
joined to the external divider. The portions fixed and added during the Bei Qi
period added up to somewhere in the range of 900 miles (1,500 km), and towns
and encampment were set up at occasional spans to post the new areas. In 579,
to forestall attacks of the Bei Zhou realm by the Tujue (a gathering of eastern
Turks) and the Khitan, the sovereign Jing began an enormous reconstructing
program on spaces of the divider situated in the previous Bei Qi realm,
beginning at Yanmen in the west and finishing at Jieshi in the east.
During the Sui line (581–618) the Great Wall was fixed and worked
on multiple times with an end goal to guard the country against assaults from
the Tujue. After the Tang line (618–907) supplanted the Sui, the nation
developed a lot further militarily, crushing the Tujue in the north and growing
past the first wilderness. Consequently, the Great Wall steadily lost its
importance as a stronghold, and there was no requirement for fixes or
increments. During the Song administration (960–1279), nonetheless, the Liao
and Jin people groups in the north were a consistent danger. The Song rulers
had to pull out toward the south of the lines of the Great Wall worked by the
Qin, Han, and Northern administrations. Numerous regions on the two sides of
the divider were therefore taken over by the Liao (907–1125) and Jin lines
(1115–1234). At the point when the Song rulers needed to withdraw significantly
farther—toward the south of the Yangtze River (Chang Jiang)— fixes to the
divider or augmentations of it were as of now not possible. Restricted fixes
were completed once (1056) during Liao times yet just nearby between the Yazi
and Huntong streams.
In 1115, after the Jin administration was set up, work was
performed on two guarded lines at Mingchang. The old divider there—recently
called the Wushu Wall, or Jinyuan Fort—ran toward the west from a point north
of Wulanhada, then, at that point, twisted through the Hailatu Mountains, going
toward the north and afterward toward the west once more, at long last
completion at the Nuanshui River. The second of the lines was the new Mingchang
Wall, additionally called the Inner Jin Wall or the Jin Trench, which was built
south of the old divider. It began in the west from a curve in the Huang He and
finished at the Sungari (Songhua) River.
During the Yuan (Mongol) line (1206–1368), the Mongols controlled
all of China, just as different pieces of Asia and areas of Europe. As a
guarded construction the Great Wall was of little importance to them;
notwithstanding, a few fortresses and key regions were fixed and posted to
control business and to restrict the danger of uprisings from the Chinese (Han)
and different ethnicities.
The Ming Line to the Present
Rulers during the Ming line (1368–1644) perpetually kept up with
and reinforced the Great Wall to forestall another Mongolian attack. Most of
the work occurred along the old dividers worked by the Bei Qi and Bei Wei.
The greater part of the Great Wall that stands today is the
consequence of work done during the rule of the Hongzhi head (1487–1505).
Starting
west of Juyong Pass, this piece of the divider was separated into south and
north lines, exclusively named the Inner and Outer dividers. Along the divider
were numerous essential "passes" (i.e., fortifications) and doors.
Among them were Juyong, Daoma, and Zijing passes, the three nearest to the Ming
capital Beijing. Together they were alluded to as the Three Inner Passes. Farther
west were Yanmen, Ningwu, and Piantou passes, known as the Three Outer Passes.
Both the Inner and Outer passes were of key importance in guaranteeing the
capital and were ordinarily strongly posted.
After the Qing (Manchu) administration (1644–1911/12) supplanted
the Ming, there was an adjustment of administering procedure called huairou
("appeasement"), wherein the Qing attempted to mollify the pioneers
and people groups of Mongolia, Tibet, and different ethnicities by not meddling
with nearby friendly, social, or strict life. As a result of the achievement of
that methodology, the Great Wall was fixed less habitually, and it continuously
crumbled to pieces.
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