长城的故事--英文

书籍目录

Contents

I. History of Great Wall

To Fend off Enemy Invasion

Construction of Great Wall Takes More Than 2,000

Years

Great Wall's Defence Function Gradually Decreases

II. Three l0,000-Li Great Walls

Qin Dynasty's Great Wall

Emperor Qin Shihuang and Great Wall

General Meng Tian Leads Soldiers in Construction

of Great Wall

Two Paralled Great Walls

Army Plays Leading Role in Construction of Great

Wall

Han Dynasty's Great Wall

Threat from the Huns

Emperor Wu Di's Strategy

Reconstruction of Great Wall

Three Parallel Walls

Construction of Great Wall in Desert

Ming Dynasty's Great Wall

Attack from Mongolian Cavalrymen

Speed up Construction of Great Wall

Inner and Outer Great Walls

Qi Jiguang Constructs Beijing-Tianjin-Hebei Great

Wall

Shanhai Pass, Not East Terminal of Ming Great

Wall

Six-Hundred-Year-Old Loess Wall

III. Various Buildings on Great Wall and Their

Functions

City Walls

Walls Built on Mountain Ridges

Trenches Along Exterior Walls

Castles at Strategic Positions

Communications Facilities Along Great Wall

Trapezium--A Stable Structure

Wall Height Varies at Different Terrain

Number of Walls Decided by Their Strategic

Position

Double-Sided and Single-Sided Walls

Clay, Stone and Brick Walls

Parapet and Battlement Walls

Fighting Platform and Watchtower

Drainage System

Pass Cities Used to Pass Through Wall

Shanhai Pass-Surrounded by Passes

Nanhaikou Pass-Rising from Sea

Huangya Pass--Bagua City

Gubeikou Pass-Polygon-Shaped Pass City

Great Wall at Jinshanling with Tight-Defence

Facilities

Great Wall at Simatai-Wall Built on Steep Slopes

Mutianyu Pass-Not Built into Pass City

Wall Built on Iron Bars

Juyong Pass Formed by Three Passes

jiayu Pass--Vital Passage of Ancient "Silk Road"

Block City-Castle

Beacon Tower Used to Deliver Military Information

Earliest Communications Facilities

Requirements for Setting up Beacon Towers

Building Materials and Shapes of Beacon Towers

Number of Soldiers on Guard and Method of Alarm

Delivery by Signal and Courier

Building Materials and Their Transport

IV. Cultural Relics of Great Wall

Han Tomb at Horinger County

Cloud Platform Carved with Buddhist Scripture in Six

Languages

Horizontal Inscribed Board on Shanhai Pass

Bricks Cast with Words

Stele Boundary Markers at Badaling

Pass to Enter and Exit Great Wall

Wood Slips of Han Dynasty

Iron and Copper Cannons and Other Weapons

V. Legends of Great Wall

Light a Beacon-Fire for Beloved Concubine

Meng Jiangnu Looks for Her Husband and Tears Down

Great Wall with Her Cries

His Majesty Shut Out of Great Wall

Widow Tower at Huangya Pass

Lone Brick at Jiayu Pass

Swallows Strike Pass Tower Door and Die

General Cannon

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