2008-12-15

Qin Shi Huang military straight - Chinese tourism scenic spots

Qin Shi Huang was a construction of the world's oldest, longest and most of the super-wide road - straight military. This is the Qin Shi Huang was quick to mobilize the military build-up and transport material Liangxiang built, with the Great Wall is comparable to the border with military installations.

Straight length of 900 kilometers north of the original nine (now within The ancient city of Baotou in the northwest), south Yunyang (now Chunhua, Shaanxi in the northwest), Shaanxi and Gansu provinces across the 14 counties. Great Wall outside the road 164 m wide, the Great Wall within 60-80 meters wide road, the widest point for more than 40 large trucks or buses more than 000 carriages running side-by-side, the road is wide, wide world's most high-speed public By a hard act to follow.

In addition, there are straight on both sides of the building 1.5 meters height Yuan, that is similar to today's closed, is pedestrian and vehicular traffic, that is safe and fast. Therefore it was known in ancient times, "the highway."

35 years straight is the Qin Shi Huang (242 BC years) by the General Mengtian Have built and will last for 4 years, the use of the 200,000 construction workers to complete.

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