What does Great Wall Praise mean?

The meaning of "Ode to the Great Wall" is: starting from the Spring and Autumn Period, going through the Qin and Han Dynasties, to the Liao and Jin Dynasties, and then to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, one to two thousand years. Countless generals and officers, as well as countless civilians, worked hard to move mountains and build this great building. The Great Wall is a symbol of the perseverance, intelligence and wisdom of the Chinese nation. It is the accumulation of the hard work and blood of the Chinese people and an immortal monument to the Chinese nation.

Crossing high mountains and desert plateaus, crossing deserts, passing by cliffs, a hundred thousand miles in length. The beacon towers and Xiongguan passes on the Great Wall are endless, like pearls and jade belts, dotting the beautiful mountains and rivers of the motherland. It rises and falls on the earth, flying and circling like a dragon. This great building can be seen in the distant space, adding magnificent brilliance to the world.

Source: "Ode to the Great Wall" - Luo Zhewen

From the Spring and Autumn Period, through the Qin and Han Dynasties, the Liao and Jin Dynasties, to the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, two thousand years ago. Countless generals, officers and soldiers, and hundreds of workers worked hard to build this great project. Strong perseverance, intelligence and hard work have left a towering monument to China.

Across steep mountains, through wilderness, across the vast sea, through cliffs, and across hundreds of thousands of miles. Look at the ever-growing dragon beacon stacks and the Xiongguan Pass, like pearls on a jade belt, embellishment of the country. Ups and downs, flying and hovering, visible from the distance, add magnificent wonders to the world.

Extended information

1. Creative background of "Ode to the Great Wall"

Ode to the Great Wall is a couplet created by Luo Zhewen, a pair of poems that comprehensively praise the Great Wall. Couplets are treasures among couplets. The whole couplet has neat sentence patterns and neat antitheses; harmonious phonology and broad artistic conception; broad content and far-reaching significance; it is a masterpiece among the couplets and can add luster to the Great Wall. The first couplet starts from time, pointing out that the Great Wall was completed after thousands of years of hard work; the second couplet starts from space, depicting the majesty of the Great Wall.

2. Introduction to the author of "Ode to the Great Wall"

Luo Zhewen (1924～2012.05.14), male, native of Yibin, Sichuan, member of the Communist Party of China, Chinese ancient architect, Leader of the Ancient Architecture Expert Group of the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, former director of the China Institute of Cultural Relics, and member of the Sixth, Seventh and Eighth National Committees of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference. In 1940, he was admitted to the China Institute of Architecture and studied under the famous ancient architects Liang Sicheng and Liu Dunzhen.

In 1946, he worked in the China Institute of Architecture and the Department of Architecture, jointly established by Tsinghua University and the China Architecture Society. In 1950, he successively worked in the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Ministry of Culture, the State Cultural Relics Administration, the Cultural Relics Archives Research Office, the China Cultural Relics Research Institute, etc., and has been engaged in the maintenance, protection, investigation and research of ancient Chinese buildings. Died in Beijing on May 14, 2012, at the age of 88.

When Luo Zhewen was 27, he was transferred to the Cultural Relics Bureau of the Ministry of Culture and began a long career in cultural relics protection. He has personally inspected every one of the more than 100 national-level cultural cities in China. In 1985, Hou Renzhi, Zheng Xiaoxie, Yang Hanxi and Luo Zhewen proposed a proposal at the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and participated in the application for the "Convention for the Protection of World Cultural and Natural Heritage", making the Great Wall one of the protected world cultural heritages. Luo Zhewen is known as "the first man on the Great Wall".