Recently, our Great Wall and the Great Wall of Hadrian's long wall in the UK have come together.
Recently, the Chinese Institute of Cultural Heritage and the English Heritage Committee officially signed the "Comprehensive Cooperation Agreement on Hadrian's Long Wall and China Great Wall " at Lancaster Palace in London, England. China and the UK will carry out extensive cooperation in the research and protection of the Great Wall and Hadrian's Long Wall.
The picture shows the long wall of Hadrian in the UK----Hadrian’s Wall
Yes, this is the Great Wall of England. Friends may have questions, please ask Bilingual Jun (WeChat ID: Chinadaily_Mobile) --- What kind of long wall is this? Isn’t it just a pile of stones? How can it be compared with our Great Wall?
Hadrian's long wall is indeed incomparable with the magnificent Great Wall of our country in terms of length and height.
But from the perspective of historical value, Hadrian's long wall witnessed the once glorious the heyday of the Roman Empire .
How big was the territory of the Roman Empire at that time? Christopher Kelly, a researcher at the College of the Sages of Cambridge, described it in "A Brief History of the Roman Empire: A Very Short Introduction":
"Then the empire stretched from Hadrian's Wall in drizzle-soaked northern England to the sun-baked banks of the Euphrates in Syria; from the great Rhine–Danube river system, which snaked across the fertile, flat lands of Europe from the Low Countries to the Black sea, to the rich plains of the North African coast and the luxury gash of the Nile Valley in Egypt. The empire completely circled the Mediterranean ... referred to by its conquerors as mare nostrum—'our sea'." At that time, the Roman empire extended from the long wall of Hadrian in northern England, moistened by drizzle, to the dry banks of the Euphrates River in Syria; from the fertile plains of Europe, the fertile plains of the Black Sea, the Rhine - Danube basin stretched to the rich plains of the North African coastal areas and the rich valleys of the Nile River in Egypt. The Roman Empire completely surrounded Mediterranean . The conquerors of the empire regarded it as the Romans' inland sea , and praised it as "our sea".
Mare Nostrum, Latin, means our sea, that is, the Mediterranean,
This explains why Hadrian's Long Wall and the Great Wall are listed on the UNESCO World Cultural Heritage List.
Hadrian's long wall is called the Frontiers of the Roman Empire on the list and was built in 122 AD by Hadrian, the then Roman monarch. In 122 AD, Hadrian built a series of fortifications on the border of the northern part of England (Northern Britain) to defend against the counterattack of the Picts and protect the safety of the controlled people of the British Isles. The long wall is the main component of this part of the fortifications.
UNESCO evaluates Hadrian's long wall as follows:
It illustrates an ambitious and cooperative system of defending constructions perfected by engineers over the course of several generations and is outstanding for its construction in dressed stone and its excellent use of the spectacular upland terrain through which it passed. Moreover, it has achieved outstanding results in the use of stone/cavity piles and ingeniously adapted to the local prominent highland terrain.
Dressed Stone/Ashlar Zhushi
When evaluating the Great Wall, the World Union also emphasized its outstanding representativeness in military defense. It seems that the heroes of the monarchs of the East and the West had similar views and had strategic arrangements for military defense.
BBC and the British " Guardian " (The Guardian ) both used the word "wall to Wall" when reporting on the joint efforts of Chinese and British cultural heritage.
Among them, the BBC further proposed in the introduction part that this dual-wall cooperation is unique (unique).
The Guardian emphasizes that the expectation of double-wall cooperation can enhance people's historical and cultural understanding of both great barriers to encourage more tourism and increase the historical and cultural understanding of both great barriers.
From a historical and cultural perspective, this double-wall cooperation is unprecedented and of great significance; from the perspective of exchanges and dialogues between culture and civilization, this is an outstanding example of using cooperation in research and protection of historical heritage to strengthen China-UK bilateral relations.
Intern: Ouyang Xueyan
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