{"id":6464,"date":"2019-11-18T06:32:55","date_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/chinese-culture\/the-first-fire-tower-of-the-great-wall-jia-yu-guan\/"},"modified":"2019-11-18T06:32:55","modified_gmt":"2019-11-18T06:32:55","slug":"the-first-fire-tower-of-the-great-wall-jia-yu-guan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/the-first-fire-tower-of-the-great-wall-jia-yu-guan\/","title":{"rendered":"The First Fire Tower of the Great Wall \u5609\u5cea\u5173"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">7 kilometers south of<span>&nbsp;<\/span><strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Jiayuguan<\/strong>(\u5609\u5cea\u5173Ji\u0101y&ugrave;gu\u0101n) City lies the Great Wall&#8217;s first<strong style=\"font-weight: bold;\"><span>&nbsp;<\/span>fire tower<\/strong>(\u70fd\u706b\u53f0F\u0113nghu\u014ft&aacute;i), regarded by some as the world&#8217;s first frustum(a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the ba<em><\/em>se and the apical part is removed), or cut-off pyramid(a polyhedron having a polygo<em><\/em>nal ba<em><\/em>se and triangular sides with a common vertex). This structure marks the western beginning of the Ming Great Wall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 1em 0px; padding: 0px; text-overflow: ellipsis; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Verdana, Arial; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: 25.200000762939453px; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);\">This frustum was built in the 18th year of the Jiajing Period of the Ming Dynasty (1539). With a flat top, it is a square pyramid, with a length, width, and height of each 14 meters. As the result of water erosion over hundreds of years, some parts have been destroyed. Standing alo<em><\/em>ngside a cliff, the frustum shows its age. To preserve the precious relic, the Jiayuguan city government has built a 30-meter-long arched fortification, which creates a seco<em><\/em>ndary structure and functions as an enclosure. Standing on the tower, visitors can experience the grandeur of an ancient civilization while appreciating the marvelous view in this place.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"chine-tie-zi-nei-rong-zhi-hou\" id=\"chine-1513474001\"><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-1889418300638825\" crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block;\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-1889418300638825\" \ndata-ad-slot=\"7273022922\" \ndata-ad-layout-key=\"-gw-3+1f-3d+2z\"\ndata-ad-format=\"fluid\"><\/ins>\n<script> \n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); \n<\/script>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>7 kilometers south of&nbsp; Jiayuguan(\u5609\u5cea\u5173Ji\u0101y&ugrave;gu\u0101n) City lies the Great Wall&#8217;s first&nbsp; fire tower(\u70fd\u706b\u53f0F\u0113nghu\u014ft&aacute;i), regarded by some as the world&#8217;s first frustum(a truncated cone or pyramid; the part that is left when a cone or pyramid is cut by a plane parallel to the base and the apical part is removed), or cut-off pyramid(a polyhedron having a polygonal base and triangular sides with a common vertex). This structure marks the western beginning of the Ming Great Wall.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chinese-culture","category-traditional-chinese-festivals"],"views":414,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chinesemoment.com\/mm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}