Ancient Walls are the important military defense facilities in ancient time. The Ancient Walls of Ping Yao has longest history and well preserved. It is said that the walls were built in the Xizhou Xuang Wang Jiayi Period and it has 2700 years of history. The walls were short in the past, and it was repaired and became the walls made by bricks in the 1370 because of the need of military defense. There were 26 repairs during the Ming and Qing Dynasty. Today the walls still keep the original style. The Ping Yao Ancient Wall is one of the most complete walls and it is also the largest ancient wall. The wall is 12.8 Li long and 10 meters high. There are six gates around the city. In the east and the west have four gates and in the south and in the north have two. And the outside of the city have small towns. Between every 40-60 meters has a Mamian, also called enemy shack. From the architect aspect, the shacks reinforced the walls and made the ancient city stronger and the most important is it can help defense enemies. If people want to beat enemies, soldiers can defense them from two aspects in the shack. Every shack has an enemy building. The enemy building is the shelter of soldiers take rest and put weapons. Soldiers can defense enemy easier in the shacks and the enemy buildings.
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