Hushan
Hushan ( Chinese 虎山 长城 , Pinyin Hǔshān chángchéng - "Great Wall of Hushan") is a section of the Great Wall of China in Dandong County in Liaoning Province and the section at the far eastern end of the Great Wall.
overview
Hushan is located about 20 km from Dandong at the confluence of the Yalu with its tributary Badao He , right on the border with North Korea . The area is located on a hill complex of around 4 km², which offers a wide view of the surrounding plain. Due to the similarity with the erect ears of a tiger, the hill is also called "Tiger Mountain". The facility was built in 1469 in the Ming Dynasty .
discovery
After aerial surveys in the border area of China and North Korea, a 600 m long section of the Great Wall in Kuandian County was exposed in 1989 . After the working group around the scientist Luo Zhewen realized that there was a previously unknown section of the wall lying very far to the east, further investigations were carried out in the area of the cities of Fushun , Shenyang , Liaoyang and Anshan , which a connection to the border in Jinzhou and Hebei provinces found the Shanhaiguan crossing point. This discovery increased the length of the well-known wall by more than 1,000 km in one fell swoop and made it necessary to rethink the previously learned history of the wall, especially the previous assumptions about the beginning of the wall at Shanhaiguan.
Excavations
In 1990, excavation work began at the eastern end of the wall. By 1992 3,800,000 yuan had been invested to repair the east end of the wall and to restore more than 600 m of the wall. In 2000 the cost was already 22,300,000 yuan, and more than 1,000 meters of the wall had been rebuilt.
discussion
In August 2003, the amateur archaeologist Li Yazhong, after examining the Hushan section, came to the conclusion that the section made of hewn natural stone, which does not have the remains of brick buildings characteristic of the Ming era wall, is very similar to the Great Wall in Liaodong the Yan time. In his opinion, this suggests that the Hushan section belongs to a "Great Wall of the Yan" (燕 长城), such as is preserved in Jianping County , but not to the Ming Great Wall ("Shiny Great Wall",明 长城). For this reason, the Hushan Wall can be described as the eastern beginning of the Great Wall of China, but in Li Yazhong's opinion it is not the beginning of the Ming Wall, which is so well known in the western world.
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Coordinates: 40 ° 13 ′ 25.8 ″ N , 124 ° 30 ′ 55.6 ″ E