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The Great Wall begins its longest and most colorful journey when it arrives at Inner Mongolia. Since ancient times, Inner Mongolia has been the border where nomadic culture interlaces with the southern farming culture. Both the rulers of the Han nationality and the nomadic tribes actively built their walls in this land.

The vast Inner Mongolia land crisscrosses many walls in different dynasties. The wall in this region has two features in general. The first is that it is the longest compared with walls in other provinces. It occupies one third of the total length of the Great Wall. Second, of the more than 2,000 years from Spring and Autumn Period to the Ming Dynasty (1368 - 1644), almost every dynasty has left its own walls in Inner Mongolia, which makes other regions incomparable.

The earliest wall in Inner Mongolia is Zhao's wall built by Zhao State in Warring States, in the years around 306 BC to 300 BC during King Wuling's rule. The wall measures over 311 miles, most of which are built by rammed earth. Baidaoling Great Wall is located in the north suburbs of Hohhot (the capital of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region), and measures 6.6 feet high and 10.9 yards wide. It occupies an important military position. The beacon towers are densely distributed on the wall. Within merely 0.3 miles, there stand six beacon towers, which have become an attractive scene in Hohhot. Sometimes you can see a few copper or iron arrowheads, which were used in the ancient wars scattered around. If you are lucky enough, you are even surprised to find ancient Chinese currency lying quietly at your feet. The Zhao's wall is really important in Chinese history, the following Qin's wall was built just by connecting Yan's wall on the basis of it.

Compared with other well-repaired walls like Badaling Great Wall, the wall in Inner Mongolia is less famous and incomplete. The recent archaeological work has discovered many more relics of the wall in this area, which seems to lengthen the wall little by little, but at the same time, because of natural disasters and human destruction, the wall is shortening day by day. We must take immediate action to rescue it, or it will disappear in the near future.