Badaling remnant Great Wall

Badaling ancient Great Wall, commonly known as the remnant Great Wall, is located 5 kilometers southwest of Badaling Great Wall scenic area. It is the west gate of Badaling Great Wall defense, where the mountains are high and steep, the valleys are dangerous, the great wall passes are connected, and the fortresses are facing each other. Due to the preservation of the original, although incomplete, but still strong wind, not only has the beauty of ancient culture incomplete, its natural landscape, environment more beautiful! The Badaling remnant Great Wall is a witness of history. According to experts' research, two sites of archaeological value have been found in the Badaling remnant Great Wall. One is the quarry where the Great Wall was built in that year. The huge rock that was split is clearly visible, and the stone chisel marks that have not yet been processed are also visible. The other is the brick kilns where bricks were fired at that time, from which you can understand the source of some raw materials when the Great Wall was built. Badaling remnant Great Wall is a historical legend. Stepping on it is a historical relic. Here you are walking yesterday, not today.

Badaling ancient Great Wall scenic spot

synonym

Badaling remnant great wall generally refers to Badaling ancient Great Wall scenic area

Badaling ancient Great Wall scenic area is located 5 kilometers southwest of Badaling Great Wall scenic area, which is the west gate of Badaling Great Wall. The ancient Great Wall, formerly known as "remnant Great Wall", is the southwest extension of Badaling Great Wall. As it has not experienced large-scale renovation, it still retains its ancient form with incomplete traces

. It is a national AAA scenic spot

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Development and evolution

In 2000, Badaling creatively put forward a new idea for the construction of "great museum" in combination with the protection of the Great Wall, the overall planning of the scenic area, the excavation of the Great Wall culture and many other aspects. On June 18, as an important part of the construction of the "grand Museum", Badaling remnant Great Wall natural scenic area held a garden opening ceremony to show tourists the great wall without any artificial restoration combined with the original natural scenery

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In 2001, Badaling remnant Great Wall natural scenic spot won the national AA level scenic spot

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From 2000 to 2003, Volkswagen carried out afforestation activities in Badaling remnant Great Wall scenic area.

In 2003, Jackie Chan and others went to Badaling remnant Great Wall scenic area to repair the ancient Great Wall.

In August 2008, after attending the opening ceremony of the Beijing Olympic Games, Latvian president Valdes Zatlers and his party made a special trip to the ancient Great Wall scenic spot for sightseeing and commemoration. This is the first foreign head of state to be welcomed by the remnant Great Wall scenic spot.

In 2009, Badaling Tourism Corporation invested 4 million yuan to upgrade the scenic area, of which 2 million yuan was used for road hardening and 2 million yuan was used for the reinforcement of the Great Wall. In 2010, the head office invested another 3.6 million yuan to upgrade the water, electricity, roads and parking lots of the scenic spot, which improved the hardware and software facilities of the scenic spot and the tourism environment.

On April 29, 2010, French President Nicolas Sarkozy visited the Badaling remnant Great Wall scenic spot. During the Mid Autumn Festival in 2010, the remnant Great Wall scenic area and the Great Wall Association of China held a large-scale Mid Autumn Moon appreciation activity

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On April 9, 2014, the first Badaling ancient Great Wall Apricot Flower Festival was opened, with a variety of 100 mu apricot flowers, different flowering periods and colors. It is the most concentrated and spectacular area of apricot flowers in Beijing

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On April 4, 2015, the second apricot blossom festival of Badaling ancient Great Wall opened. The Apricot Flower Festival, with the theme of "pink dragon scales, watching apricot flowers at the foot of the Great Wall", lasts for 16 days, during which Beijing citizens can enjoy half price tickets

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On April 9, 2016, the Badaling ancient Great Wall apricot blossom festival with the theme of "good apricot and you" lasted until April 24. On the opening day, the ancient Great Wall, together with qunar.com and ctrip.com, invited students from autistic children's school to visit the scenic spot

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On April 8, 2017, the apricot blossom festival with the theme of "spring outing in the sea of apricot flowers and dream of returning to the ancient Great Wall" was opened. During the festival, activities such as Yanqing qiaoniang intangible cultural heritage exhibition, facial painting, sugar blower and so on were also held. There was a large-scale Cosplay online interaction, and 50 excellent works of tourists could get awards

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In July 2019, Badaling special zone office took over the Shuiguan section and the ancient great wall section of Badaling Great Wall, which were originally managed by Badaling Tourism Corporation

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Main attractions

Breakthrough place

The place where Chuang Wang broke the pass is not far behind the gate of the scenic spot. On both sides of the trail are two incomplete city walls. According to the research, it is the original trace of "Li Zicheng breaking the pass". The outer side of the city wall is made of granite. To break through such a strong defense, we can see the intensity of the war that year

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The main body of the Great Wall

The average height of the wall is 7.8 meters, the average width of the wall base is 6.5 meters, and the average width of the wall top is about 5.8 meters. Inside the wall is rammed solid soil and stone, outside with granite stone. There are walls on both sides of the top of the wall, and the one on the inside is called parapet or Yu wall, about one meter high. The outside is called buttress wall or battlements, about two meters high. The protruding part of the buttress wall is called crenels, and the concave part is called battlements. Each crenels is expected to be perforated above for observation, and there are perforations below for archery. On the top of the wall, there is a drainage ditch and a water spout. The water spout is made into a long stone trough and extends out of the wall to prevent rain from wetting the wall.

There are 12 beacon towers in the ancient Great Wall scenic area. There are two kinds of Great Wall towers: wall tower and enemy tower. The facilities of the wall platform are simple, and they are on the same plane with the wall. The platform protruding the wall is called "horse face". There are stacks of walls built for the soldiers who patrol the city to take shelter from the wind and the cold. The structure of the enemy platform is more complex than the wall platform. It is a two-story or three-story building which is higher than the wall. The upper level is used for watchmen, while the lower level stores grain and ammunition, which is also the residence of watchmen

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Stone factory, ancient brick kiln site

There are two sites with archaeological value in the ancient Great Wall scenic area, one is the stone factory, the other is the brick kiln group, both of which are the materials factory for the construction of the Great Wall in the Ming Dynasty

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Donggou Great Wall stele

Donggou Great Wall stele is located on the east side of the wall between the West third floor and the west fourth floor of Badaling ancient Great Wall scenic area. Its geographical coordinates are 115 ° 58'11.3 "E and 40 ° 19'41.8" n, with an altitude of 932 meters. The stone tablet was unearthed in 2008 during the wall protection construction of the west fourth floor of the Great Wall in Donggou section of Badaling. It was stored in the east side of the wall and protected with frame. The body of the tablet is granite, and it is well preserved as a whole. However, the inscription is seriously weathered, and the handwriting is not clear. At the bottom right, there are words such as "Baoding military affairs supervision department" and so on, which are suspected to be "great wall repair monument". The body of the monument is 0.51 meters wide, 0.86 meters long, 0.15 meters thick and 0.7 meters high. Now it stands with its back against the Great Wall

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Features of scenic spots

Badaling ancient Great Wall scenic spot is a kind of reinforcement and collapse on the basis of the original dilapidated collapse and overgrown weeds to restore and maintain the original appearance as far as possible, so that this section of the ancient great wall winding between the mountains retains the historical vicissitudes and heavy feeling

. But strictly speaking, it can't be regarded as the "Wild Great Wall" because it has been artificially repaired

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The higher the distance, the steeper it is. It can be described as "Climbing". Some steps can only hold half of the feet, and visitors must use both hands and feet to ensure their own safety. However, wooden steps and iron handrails are added on both sides of this section of the Great Wall, which is not only conducive to climbing, but also conducive to protecting the Great Wall

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Cultural legend

In 1644, Li Zicheng established the great "Dashun" regime in Xi'an. He personally led the army to March eastward, crossed the Yellow River and entered Shanxi. After passing through kexuan mansion in Datong, he drove straight into Badaling. He rushed to the Xiongguan and killed many people. He could not be defeated for a long time. The local old man gave advice and turned to attack Shixia pass. Tang Yingzhong, the first general, left the pass. Li Zicheng took advantage of the gap to break the pass and forced Beijing. Later generations compiled this historical event into Peking Opera, called "three doubts", which was widely spread

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Tourism information

Ticket information

Adult 40 yuan, student (certificate) 20 yuan, children under 1.2 meters

, active servicemen, disabled servicemen

And the elderly over 65 years old in Beijing (certificate) free of charge

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Opening hours in peak season: 6:30-17:30

Off season opening hours: 7:30-16:30

favoured policy

On February 18, 2020, Badaling Great Wall scenic area launched a free admission policy for preferential medical workers. From the resumption of operation of the scenic area to December 31, 2020, the majority of medical workers do not need to make an online appointment. They only need to carry the doctor's practice certificate, nurse's practice certificate and their original ID card to the entrance of Badaling Dengcheng to exchange tickets, and then they can go to the city conveniently and quickly with tickets.

Traffic routes

Address: Donggou village, Badaling Town, Yanqing, Beijing

Deshengmen take bus 919 and bus stop express to Badaling ancient Great Wall Station.

Self driving can take Beijing Tibet Expressway and get off at Shuiguan exit.

protective measures

On April 6, 2020, the disciplinary measures for the destruction of cultural relics in Badaling Great Wall scenic area will be officially implemented. According to the disciplinary measures, the Badaling Special Administrative Region Office shall impose corresponding administrative penalties on seven types of cultural relic destruction, such as carving and intentional damage. If a crime is constituted, it shall be handed over to the public security organ for disposal according to law. Uncivilized tourism activities that damage cultural relics and cause serious social impact will also be included in the list of tourism activities in accordance with relevant laws and regulations

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