But where to start when it comes to myths of the Great Wall? For starters, the concept of a single, unified Great Wall is misleading, a creation of European travelers, and later Chinese nationalism. In fact, the wall is a series of fortifications separated better with the name long walls built by various dynasties for various purposes.
Since most fortified positions, their intentions were so aggressive and defensive. Until recently, the foreign policy of China was mainly in the north, where a series of powerful empires and invaders is based on the challenge of the time, the conquest of the Chinese state in its various incarnations.
The long walls, and often a starting point for expeditions of the Chinese military was used as they did, as defensive positions against nomadic invaders. Above all, the walls were often around the newly settled land by the Han, such as colonial fortresses was in the North and South America, his goal, the people whose land was to keep troubled.
Generally, however, was the most common feature walls used as a tariff. Trade Nord was big business, tea on the skin of horses. Hadrian's Wall, a similar target in Britain, as the cover of great India , a mile to two miles mass planting of trees, bushes and thorns of British law in the country to implement the tax on salt known.
Similar walls have fallen into oblivion for many years after the conquest of the Qing Dynasty superfluous. They were largely from the European admiration which penetrates into the national consciousness in China, taken to an idea of creating the Great Wall as a symbol of the unity of the nation and produce C T-shirt slogans for tourists.
