When silk was first used,  it was stored professional  for the use of the ruler, and silk was also used to the emperor.

Later on,  the different classes of society began wearing silk, and silk got  into more general use. As well as being used for clothing and decoration, silk was  put to industrial use by the Chinese later , Something which happened in the Western country only in modern times,and it  became one of the main contents of the Chinese economy.

Universally known capital. It is the political heart of China. It is impossible to describe such a city in some lines. We have only one thing to say: go ahead! To see absolutely: the Forbiddden City, the Temple of Heaven, the Summer Palace and famous Hutong (Chinese traditional districts in the process of disappearance!). For information, the Great Wall of China is at 70 km in the North of the capital.

Beijing Card:

Beijing hutongs

"Two," the hutongs are the Mongolian ZiYuan transliteration.The Buddha said tomographic jin tong "lane is the dialect, built in yuan dynasty mostly 1,267 laid down, has more than 700 years history.　Therefore, Beijing hutongs are long history, it reflects the history of Beijing, is a rich content.

Beijing's hutongs, great majority is ZhengXi east, south, namely straight toward the north, which constitutes a founder of Beijing, also shows that Beijing is the city planning, meticulously according to the board of the blueprint for buildings.The house sits is composed, parallelism and courtyards, so the hutongs, north-south direction of hutong hutongs.This plan is built from the imperial past experience, reflect the characteristics of traditional generations to build the city.

But the real change, or face alley after liberation.In 1949, for Beijing to beiping to the capital of the People's Republic of China.From the historical and cultural cities, Beijing has undergone earth-shaking changes, urban construction sites.Until the mid eighties, Beijing city is the old city of Beijing area, including urban constructed 24 times more than triple the liberation.New kinds of building area, equivalent to built five old Beijing.So, the number of hutong than before, had doubled the street alley, 6104 called the hutongs are still directly, and the environment also 1316 becomes neat and beautiful, more important is the connotation of the old city walls with hutongs gradually became more widespread, also.Beijing is not only new up lots of buildings, residential area, but also in life for the reconstruction of the old street, lane.Many hutong name is continuing, but mostly had not old model, some kind of old hutongs threatened by unit building houses replaced.Typical JuEr bystreet, such as enterprise warehouse areas appears small wl, not only in the courtyard buildings that residents of the housing conditions have improved, and maintain the root of "jing" flavor.For the protection of the ancient style, maintain the traditional features, Beijing city is a mirror more than 20 for historical and cultural reserve, like south gongs, col. 4: north road to eight etc were as siheyun bungalow reserves.Since yuan dynasty formed from the old Beijing hutongs of chessboard type pattern is, and the fourth ring and 3rd ring, such emission layout linked together.Hutongs also look young, ancient and modern style, graceful sceneries out here.

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Warmly welcome to Beijing,welcome to China!

To the northwest and north of Beijing, a huge, serrated wall zigzags it's way to the east and west along the undulating mountains. This is the Great Wall, which is said to be visible from the moon.

Construction of the Great Wall started in the 7th century B.C. The vassal states under the Zhou Dynasty in the northern parts of the country each built their own walls for defence purposes. After the state of Qin unified China in 221 B.C., it joined the walls to hold off the invaders from the Xiongnu tribes in the north and extended them to more than 10,000 li or 5,000 kilometers. This is the origin of the name Of the "10,000-li Great Wall".

The Great Wall was renovated from time to time after the Qin Dynasty. A major renovation started with the founding of the Ming Dynasty in 1368, and took 200 years to complete. The wall we see today is almost exactly the result of this effort. With a total length of over 6,000 kilometers, it extends to the jiayu Pass in Gansu Province in the west and to the mouth of the Yalu River in Liaoning Province in the east. What lies north of Beijing is but a small section of it.

A Map of the Great Wall



The map shows the Wall running from Jiayu Pass of Gansu Province to Shanhai Pass of Hebei Province. Representative sections of the Great Wall built in Ming times are situated near Shanhai Pass, Gubeikou and Juyong Pass.

Badaling Section


  

The Badaling section of the Great Wall snaking along the mountains northwest of Beijing was built at the beginning of the Ming Dynasty in the 14th century. Being 7.8 metres high and 5.8 metres wide at the top on the average, it has battle forts at important points, including the corners.

  

Located 10 kilometers south of the Badaling section of the Great Wall and built in an 18.5-kilometre-long valley, the pass has always been an important gateway northwest of Beijing. The name is believed to have its origin in the workers and slaves conscripted to build the Great Wall in ancient times. Cloud Terrace, built in 1345, was originally the base of a pagoda over looking the main road of the town of the pass. The arched gate of the terrace and the walls inside the arch are decorated with carvings. of elephants, lions, birds, flowers and heavenly kings as well as charms in six languages-Sanskrit, Tibetan, Phats pa (Mongolian), Uygur, West Xia and Han.

Mutianyu Section


  

The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall, 70 kilometers northeast of Beijing, is linked to the Gubeikou section on the east and the Badaling section on the west. It is one of the best sections of the Great Wall.

The Mutianyu section of the Great Wall is crenelatted for watching and shooting at the invading enemy. Some of the battle forts on the wall are as close as 50 metres apart.

Jinshanling Section



  

Located in Miyun County northeast of Beijing, the Jinshanling division of the Great Wall, like the Simatai division, belongs to the Gubeikou section of the colossal defence barrier.

The battlements in the Jinshanling division of the Great Wall are built along the ridge of a mountain, where the soldiers can resist the invading enemy by taking advantage of the high terrain.

A decrepit battle fort at dusk often reminds one of the battles in ancient times.

Simatai Section



  

Located to the east of Jinshanling, the Simatai division of the Great Wall is 3,000 metres long and has 35 battle forts. The wall rises and falls with the precipitous mountain ridge, while the battle forts are located high up the hills.

Alarm was raised by means of smoke signals, at night by fire. Smoke was produced by burning a mixture of wolf dung, sulfur and saltpeter. Shots were fired at the same time. Thus an alarm could be relayed over 500km within just a few hours.

We visit the Forbidden City ,then go to the local folks family  to know about the history. we take the rickshaw .in the afternoon.we  felt tired.so we  go to the bear bar of HouHai Park. I found the toilet is very interesting.  the floor is  made of glass.the   water come from  the river.and you can  see  different colour fish below your foot.  so   it is  mazing .