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长城不仅是人类的伟大建筑工程，更代表了中国人民的精神。其中，八达岭长城是万里长城最具有代表性的部分。站在八达岭上看整个长城高耸云端，从南到北盘踞在嘉峪关和居庸关上，整个长城无边无际，一望无垠。很多人登上长城，用长城之歌来激励自己。The Great Wall is not only the magnum opus of human being but also the soul of China! And the Badaling Great Wall is the eximious representation of The Great Wall. On the peak of the Badaling, the Great Wall is towering. It goes up to the South peak and north peak from the Guan city, convolves on the Ridge of Jundu Mountain. You can not see its beginning and end, it disappears beyond. So many people climbed it, felt inspirited, sang the praises of it and gasped in admiration……
长城是什么时候建起的呢？这个伟大的工程经历了多少的岁月？这当中又包含了多少的艰辛和困苦？古人又为其留下了多少的泪水和赞扬，痛苦和欢乐……中国的长城是人类文明史上最伟大的建筑工程，如果没有到长城就等于没有到中国，就像到了巴黎不去看埃菲尔铁塔，到了埃及怎么能不看金字塔一样。这就是人们常说的：不到长城非好汉。但是，你知道长城的历史吗？When did it be built in the groups of mountains? What imprints did the remote years left behind? How many hardships and dangers did it got through? It also has many move one to praises and tears, lamentable and laughable stories of the historical people……The Great Wall which be created by the human being will be your nice mind forever! The Great Wall is one of the wonders of the world that created by human being! If you come to China without climbing The Great Wall, just as well as you come to Paris without visiting The Iron Tower, come to Egypt without visiting the pyramids! Man often say:" The man who have not climbed The Great Wall is not the true man." Do you know the history of The Great Wall?
它始建于两千多年前的春秋战国时期，秦朝统一中国之后联成万里长城。汉、明两代又曾大规模修筑。其工程之浩繁，气势之雄伟，堪称世界奇迹。岁月流逝，物是人非，如今当您登上昔日长城的遗址，不仅能目睹逶迤于群山峻岭之中的长城雄姿，还能领略到中华民族创造历史的大智大勇。The beginning of the consumption of the Great Wall can be traced back to the 9th century BC in the Zhou period, Qin Shi Huang, the first emperor of the Qin Dynasty, ordered to begin the construction of a great wall, under which project the long walls in the north of the former Qin. Back in the Warring States Period, to strengthen defense against each other, the princedoms built massive walls on their borders and linked series of walls and beacon towers into continuous lines, hence the name “Great wall.” As they differed in the area of territory, their defensive walls varied in length. Long walls were constructed in the Northern Wei and Sui periods, as recorded in ancient texts. During the Ming period, When all the walls built by numerous princedoms in the Spring-Autumn and Warring States Period and later by various dynasties over a span of two millennia were linked together, the Great Wall would come to the grand total of well over 50,000 km in length— a marvelous engineering feat in human history! 

很久很久以前的一天，天神把所有的动物集合起来，对大家说：“我要从你们当中选出十二种动物，轮流在地面上当一年的大王，叫做十二生肖。”A long time ago, the god called all the animals together and said, “I will choose 12 animals out of you to take turns to head a year of the cycle, which will be called the Chinese Zodiac.”

十二生肖首先出现于计时。现在我们将一昼夜用二十四小时计时，古代天文学家将昼夜分为十二时辰，即：子、丑、寅、卯、辰、巳、午、未、申、酉、戌、亥。同时他们在观天象时，依照十二种动物的生活习惯和活动的时辰，确定了与时辰相对应的十二生肖。The Chinese Zodiac initially originated from the division of time. Nowadays, we divide a day and night into 24 hours while ancient astronomers divide it into 12 shichen, which is a two-hour period, namely, zi, chou, yin, mao, chen, si, wu, wei, shen, you, xu and hai. In astronomical observation, they choose 12 animal signs corresponding to each shichen according to the living habits and the time of activity of the animals.