Great Wall

Hello, I am Hao De Li, and it has been an honor to participate in the construction of the Great Wall of China over the last few years of my life.  I was born in 230 B.C., a few years before the start of the Qin Dynasty, and this project has been extremely important in recent society.  After China was unified under Emperor Qin Shi Huangdi in 220 B.C., he began to start what is now considered by far one of the greatest archaeological achievements of all time.

This wall stretches for over 1,000 miles throughout China, and is still in the process of being completed.  Huangdi decided that in order to hold out nomadic invaders from surrounding countries, this wall would be very beneficial.  The building of this great work has not been easy.  It is grueling work every day, and hundreds of thousands of Chinese citizens have been working their hearts out.  Thousands of workers have recently died, and it is rumored that they have been buried in the wall.  I am lucky to still be alive and well, and even luckier to have been a part of this great structure.

Sincerely,

Hao De Li



In 206 B.C., Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty extended the wall much further.  Although the wall was started during the Qin Dyansty, most of the wall existing today can be tracked to the Ming Dynasty.