Move to fresh air, loose hair,
Relax, move the body slowly
Meditation in motion
The outer is dynamic, it remains calm internal …
Yang Yin
(“All under heaven” – M. Asensi)
… And there on the Great Wall, inside all is calm, all is peace, while all around you spins a fast-paced world, while all around you hundreds of tourists make pilgrimages to admire this great wonder. There, on that place millennial centuries of culture, centuries of philosophy, struggles, beliefs … the yin and yang united in 7300 kms. Stone and Chinese history ….
… And the story goes, that back in 221 BC, the first emperor Qin Shi Huang united the Warring into a single empire. In order to defend his newly created rule of external attacks, joined various portions of the wall, using farm labor, and spending vast fortunes on its construction. Quin Shi Huang made history as the first tyrant and dictator of China, and still today in China, he was admired almost as a god. It was he who reformed the deed, who established new forms of government, who set the currency systems and created the first network of canals for irrigation.
Thanks to him, should be enough monuments and palaces all over China, and even for protection, was buried in the Chinese province of Xian a magnificent army of terracotta soldiers …. But after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the Great Wall was abandoned … It took the Ming Dynasty which, between the fourteenth and seventeenth centuries made the final restoration of the Wall, even though to this day remains only 30% of it.
… To reach from Beijing, the nearest is at Badaling, which can go by bus or car. This section, together with that of the Mutianyu Simatai and are the best preserved. Especially in the second, Simatai, we get the best views of the entire wall. There on the horizon, we will miss the Great Wall, climbing mountain peaks, descending into valleys, passing over rivers, to fade and be lost among his fans that make up the warm colors of the sky and the greenness of their fields more than seven thousand kilometers to take you from the coast of the Yellow Sea until Jiayuquan step in the Gobi desert, crossing 135 watchtowers on an adventure that not only will you tour the Chinese countryside as bucolic, but it will take you back to times wars, blood and toil … .. There are three steps in this Wall made of clay and sand and covered with baked brick and granite, that of Shanghai, the Juyong, and Niángzi.
… And will forever, and the Great Wall of China remains, stately, sober, serene, while at his feet, the world is too small ….
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