The Great Wall - Chinese Namecards Series

In the east of the world, on the length and breadthof China's soil, many earth, stone statured giganticdragons rise. Among them is the gigantic dragon ofthe Great Wall, lengthen out to ten thousand Li. It leavesthe Gobi, leaps the desert, strides the grassland andturns over the mountains. From the winding ups anddowns of Yanshan it moves swiftly and descends. Itfaces Bohai, holds up its head and speeds along. Thenit extends its head into the big sea, where it causesbillows to surge and stirs waves every day, respiresclouds and demonstrates its never exhausting vigorand enchantment. The Chinese people with all theirheart and all their force took the totems within theirheart to create it in their national territory. This is theChinese Great Wall and the ten thousand Li Great Wall. The children and grand-children of China, by toil andwisdom, with their lives and blood.