{"id":8191,"date":"2012-06-11T11:07:51","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T03:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/?p=8191"},"modified":"2012-06-11T11:10:16","modified_gmt":"2012-06-11T03:10:16","slug":"the-nanjing-wall-experience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/the-nanjing-wall-experience\/","title":{"rendered":"THE NANJING’ WALL EXPERIENCE"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today the 600-year-old city wall of Nanjing still stands.<\/p>\n

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Different from ancient city walls in Beijing<\/a> and Xi’an<\/a>, its design and construction was unique and changed the old ways of equilibrium and symmetry.<\/strong> The construction concentrated on military defense because the city was at the foot of a mountain\u00e2\u20ac\u201da natural barrier to control the commanding elevation with the river as its natural city moat. Because of this, the 60-square-kilometer Nanjing city became strategically located and difficult to reach.<\/p>\n

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Nanjing’s city wall belonged to a military defensive system too. The difference was that it adopted a winding, free style, based on the city’s complicated topography.<\/p>\n

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The ancient city wall was listed as a key cultural relic under state protection in 1988.<\/p>\n

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Today the 600-year-old city wall of Nanjing still stands. Different from ancient city walls in Beijing and Xi’an, its design and construction was unique and changed the old ways of equilibrium and symmetry. The construction concentrated on military defense because the city was at the foot of a mountain\u00e2\u20ac\u201da natural barrier to control the commanding […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[455,24,17],"tags":[170],"class_list":["post-8191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lumberjack","category-photos","category-tours","tag-nanjing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8191"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8197,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8191\/revisions\/8197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basherscc.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}