The Great Wall of China, also known in China as the Great Wall of 10,000, is an ancient Chinese fortification built from the end of the 14th century until the beginning of the 17th century, during the Ming Dynasty, in order to protect China from raids by the Mongols and Turkic tribes. It was preceded by several walls built since the 3rd century BC against the raids of nomadic tribes coming from areas now in modern day Mongolia and Manchuria.The Wall stretches over a formidable 6,350 km (3,946 miles), from Shanhai Pass on the Bohai Gulf in the east, at the limit between China proper and Manchuria, to Lop Nur in the southeastern portion of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region.
中國的長城，在中國也被稱為長城的10000，是中國古代的一個設防建造的第十四世紀末直到第十七世紀初，在明代，為了由蒙古人和突厥部落保護中國免受襲擊。這是之前幾個牆自公元前第三世紀的遊牧部落來自地區現在的蒙古和滿洲里的突襲建。壁延伸超過一個艱巨的6350公里(3946英里)，從東部渤海灣關山海，在中國和滿洲里之間的界限，以羅布泊在新疆維吾爾族自治區東南部的部分。
The first major wall was built during the reign of the First Emperor, the main emperor of the short-lived Qin dynasty. This wall was not constructed as a single endeavor, but rather was created by the joining of several regional walls built by the Warring States. It was located much further north than the current Great Wall, and very little remains of it. A defensive wall on the northern border was built and maintained by several dynasties at different times in Chinese history. The Great Wall that can still be seen today was built during the Ming Dynasty, on a much larger scale and with longer lasting materials (solid stone used for the sides and the top of the Wall) than any wall that had been built before. The primary purpose of the wall was not to keep out people, who could scale the wall, but to insure that semi-nomadic people on the outside of the wall could not cross with their horses or return easily with stolen property.
第一主壁的第一個皇帝統治時期建造的，短命的秦朝的主要皇帝。這堵牆沒有建造作為一個單一的努力，而是由幾個區域的牆而建的戰國加入了。這是位於更遠的北部比目前的長城，很少遺骸它。在北部邊境修建了防禦城牆，在中國歷史上不同時期幾代保持。長城，今天依然可以看到建於明朝，一個更大的規模和較長的持久材料(固體石用於兩側和頂部的牆)比任何牆壁已建成之前。牆的主要目的是不讓出來的人，誰能翻牆，但要保證在牆體的外側半遊牧民族，不能交叉的馬匹或返回輕鬆贓物。