Simatai Great Wall

Simatai Great Wall, located in Gubeikou Town, Miyun County, Beijing, is about 120 kilometers away from the urban area. It is the only ancient Great Wall in China that retains the original appearance of the Ming Great Wall. The Great Wall is built along the ridge like a knife and axe, which is extremely steep. It also creates a variety of wall forms, including single wall, double wall, trapezoidal stone wall and so on. There are many kinds of enemy towers, including two-story, three-story, flat roof, dome and so on. Simatai reservoir divides this section of the great wall into East and West sections. There are 16 enemy towers in the east section and 18 in the west section. At present, only 10 enemy towers in the east section are open in the scenic area (until East No.10 enemy tower). Simatai is the most dangerous part of the Great Wall, which tourists can no longer set foot in.

Since February 2014, tickets for the Great Wall will not be sold separately in the scenic spot, only the package of "Simatai Great Wall + gubeishui town" will be sold. Tourists who buy the package can enter the Great Wall during the opening period of the scenic spot (when the number of people is too large, the scenic spot will sometimes control the flow and open the tour according to the batch number, please cooperate). For those who only visit the great wall of Simatai, the scenic spot will make an appointment to visit the Great Wall in batches, with a total of three batches per day: 10:00, 12:00 and 14:00 (different seasons may change, subject to the notice at the time of appointment). In addition, there will be no separate arrangement to enter the Great Wall. Each batch of tourists need to take a free sightseeing bus to the foot of the Great Wall under the guidance of the staff.

Simatai Great Wall is the latest Great Wall scenic spot in Beijing. It is located at the junction of Beijing and Hebei. Compared with Badaling and other Great Wall scenic spots, Simatai Great Wall is farther away from the urban area. There are not many tourists to Simatai Great Wall. There is no crowded phenomenon like Badaling Great Wall. In addition, the development of Simatai Great Wall was relatively late, which avoided the problem of transitional repair. Compared with Badaling Great Wall, Simatai Great Wall is more original, and almost all of them are broken walls. Every autumn, the red leaves here also attract many tourists. On the ancient Great Wall, seeing the red leaves all over the mountain is totally different from seeing the red leaves in Xiangshan.

The climbing Road of Simatai Great Wall is steep. It takes more than one kilometer to go up the mountain from the foot of the mountain to the enemy tower. It takes a certain amount of physical strength. At the foot of the Great Wall, there are Cableways that can directly reach the "East 8th floor" and "East 5th floor". Tourists with limited physical strength can choose to take the cableway. The one-way cableway is 90 yuan and the round trip is 160 yuan.

Simatai Great Wall is located in the north of Simatai village, Gubeikou town in the north of Miyun District, Beijing, close to gubeishui town. The wall of Simatai Great Wall is built according to the steep mountains and is famous for its strange, special and dangerous features. Simatai reservoir divides the great wall into East and West sections. There are 16 beauty buildings in the East and 18 hero ashes buildings in the West. Luo Zhewen, a famous Chinese ancient architect, once commented that "the great wall of China is the largest in the world, and the great wall of Simatai is the largest in China." In 2012, it was rated as "the top 25 landscapes in the world that can't be missed" by the British times.

Scenery

Simatai Great Wall was first built in the early years of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty, and then reinforced by Qi Jiguang, the chief soldier of Jizhen Town, and Tan Lun, the governor. The mountain is steep, the terrain is precipitous, and the project is numerous. Looking at the great wall of Simatai at the foot of the mountain, you can see that it is leaning against the blue sky, across the East and West, with long wild clouds, extremely high and dangerous. The mountain is like a person's fingers close together in a two-way ladder shape. If you climb the Great Wall from the west, you can see from the side that there is only one peak on it. It seems as if you can climb it with all your might. But once on the first peak of the enemy tower, turned to look East, but there is a peak forced face. When you climb the enemy tower on the second hill and look up to the East, there is a higher peak on it. When you look down, you can see that all the enemy towers on the first hill are covered. It's true that "there are no ancients before, and no comers after." On the fourth enemy tower, it is now open, and the village in the distance is quiet and leisurely with warm cooking smoke. The green and yellow vegetation on the other side of the mountain rises and falls, and the flocks are surging in several places, which adds a little poetic and picturesque flavor, and reminds people of the poem "when the wind blows, the grass is low, the cattle and sheep are low". On the sixth enemy tower, the tower is divided into two levels: the upper level is the lookout tower, and the lower level is the frontier garrison tower

There are windows on three sides and archery holes in the north. The whole building is made of generous stones, which is solid, firm and elegant. The creation of this magnificent and unique landscape of the Great Wall is due to the special Yanshan terrain, important geographical location and the wisdom of Qi Jiguang and other ancient soldiers.

Simatai Great Wall is divided into two parts by Yuanyang Lake. Yuanyang Lake is composed of hot springs flowing at 37 ℃ all the year round and cold springs. As a result, the water in the lake is cold and warm. Every winter, the water in the lake is still rippling and foggy.

The highest part of the Great Wall is "fairy tower", which needs to climb up the "ladder". The ladder is 100 meters high, with a slope of 85 degrees. It is almost vertical, so it is hard to conquer without courage. Looking up, the brick and stone steps can only hold feet, and the cliffs on both sides are steep. The middle step is as thin as a line, as thin as a blade, and as steep as a stand. People can't help sighing and gasping at the stairs. Climbing up the fairy tower, the scenery is really more magnificent and beautiful. Looking down at the cliff at your feet, you can see that the cliff is as steep and breathtaking as a knife or an axe. The Jinshanling Great Wall and Simatai Great Wall in the northwest are integrated, just like a black dragon about to take off. The enemy towers of different sizes and shapes on the great wall are just right built on the commanding heights. They are majestic, cold and straight. The whole section of the Great Wall is perfect, harmonious and majestic, showing her cleverness, strangeness, magnificence and magnificence everywhere. Then look at the continuous rise of the Yanshan Mountains, stacking countless fantasies; look at the boundless North China Plain, which has been spread to the horizon beyond our eyes,

In this vast and strange scenery, people can't help thinking.

Selected poems:

Qijue · the great wall of Simatai

Li Zuozhong

The sword cleaves the steep mountains like a screen, and the great wall lies on dangerous peaks.

Since ancient times and today, it's hard to stop warriors from climbing!

characteristic

Simatai Great Wall has been open to the outside world since it was rebuilt in 1987. Its back against the blue sky, across the East and West, wild clouds long, extremely dangerous. The mountain is like a person's fingers close together in a two-way ladder shape. If you climb the Great Wall from the west, you can see only one peak from the side.

The spectacle of climbing the sixth enemy tower is also one of its features.

Climbing up the fairy tower and looking down at the cliff under your feet, you can see that the cliff is steep and breathtaking. The Jinshanling Great Wall and Simatai Great Wall are integrated. Before climbing the Great Wall, you have to cross a big lake. On the west side of the lake, there is a hot spring. In severe winter, grass grows around the spring, just like spring. The temperature of spring water is 37 ℃ all the year round, only steaming and fish roaming. On the other side of the lake, the mountain spring is cold to the bone. The lake is called Yuanyang Lake by the local people. It is composed of a cold spring and a hot spring which are more than ten meters apart.

The most wonderful thing about the eastern section of Simatai Great Wall lies in the "danger". The Great Wall is like a giant dragon, lying on the precipice of Jueya cliff, stretching from east to west, within kilometers, densely covered with 14 enemy towers. Especially on one side of the steep mountain, there is a ladder. The gradient of the ladder is 85 degrees. Next to the cliff, the ladder is only wide enough to hold feet. It is almost upright and has no handrails. It is about 100 meters long and only one brick wide. On both sides of the ladder are 900 meters deep. Here, you can only crawl on all fours. It's frightening!

After crossing the ladder and then climbing the overpass, you will be able to climb the two most distinctive buildings. One is "fairy house". It is said that it was transformed from an antelope. It is named after the lotus fairy who lived there. It is slender and long-lived. It seems like a girl who doesn't want to go out. The white marble arch of the Han Dynasty is engraved with a lotus flower relief, which is the only one on the Great Wall. The second building is called "Wangjing building", 986 meters above sea level. It is the highest point of cultural relics in Beijing. Standing in this building, you can see the sky, mountains and waters.

Architectural features

Simatai Great Wall is 5.4 km long and has 35 enemy towers. The whole section of the Great Wall is ingenious in conception, peculiar in design, novel in conception and different in shape. It integrates many characteristics of the Great Wall in one place and forms a "wonderful great wall". The walls of the great wall here are not only the type of "city wall" commonly seen by people, but also the type of "half wall" built to adapt to the mountain situation of precipitous cliff; there are both the horse path stretching along the gentle slope, and the "heavenly ladder" stacked with large steps on the steep slope. The various situations of hollow enemy platforms also make architectural historians marvel. On the enemy's platform alone, there are several kinds of Wangting, such as one room, three rooms, three rooms plus front and back porches, three rooms plus surrounding porches, and so on. There are many kinds of roofs, such as Xieshan, Xuanshan, hard mountain, rolling shed and double eaves Xuanshan. In a very short distance, there are so many forms of city walls and enemy towers, which are extremely rare in the Great Wall.

This section of the Great Wall was praised by Luo zhe Wen Jiao, a great wall research expert: "the Great Wall is the most famous building in China, and the Simatai Great Wall is the most famous one in China." Therefore, it is regarded as the world's outstanding cultural heritage. The mountain is steep, the terrain is precipitous, the project is vast, stretching for 19 kilometers, there are as many as 135 enemy towers. Just talking about the roof, there are 6 kinds of flat roof, dome, octagonal caisson roof, and 7 kinds of walls, such as unilateral wall, bilateral wall, crenel barrier wall. The city wall has single-sided wall, double-sided wall and trapezoidal stone wall; the style of the enemy tower has two floors, three floors, flat shape, round shape, corner shape, two eyes, three eyes, four eyes, six eyes and twenty-four eyes; many of the top styles are unique to Simatai Great Wall.

Simatai Great Wall is the only ancient Great Wall that retains the original appearance of Ming Great Wall. Because of its special terrain conditions and the wisdom of builders, the Great Wall gallops along with the blade like ridge, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, sometimes up and down. The city platform, enemy tower and barrier wall have many forms and great changes in a very short distance, which is in the whole great wall

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