The Indication And Significance Of The Great Wall At Period Of The Republic Of China

The Great Wall is a kind of fortifications which known as’the most famous military contstruction ’.The Great Wall stretch a large extent wall,or look like a wall in shape,or have the same function with a wall.YWhen in the Western Zhou Dynasty,Chinese began to built the Great Wall,and still constructed this construction about 2000 years.As a kind of fortifications,the Great Wall’s history of build and withstand enemies is remembered by Chinese,and a lots of tales and legends are connected with the Great Wall.Generally speaking,the Great Wall is close related with Chinese civilization,it’s a special significance in Chinese mind.In Chinese mind,the Great wall coalesce it’s history,not only a existent construction,but also a symbol.In different era,different ethos impact people’s thought,these ideologies cause various expression.This article is aimed at investigating the expression of the Great Wall,time will be limited at the Republic of China era(major within 1912-1945).This investigation order to understand the change and characteristic of the Great Wall,hope to comprehend the ethos of this era further.This article mainly includes five chapters:The introduction part clarifies the reasons of writing this article,and analysis the related research situation and major innovations.The first chapter mainly discuss the expression of the Great Wall while the Republic of China established.Among the course of self-identity which refer to’Chinese nation’,as different nationalities were obstructed by the Great Wall,it became a negative object.The Great Wall was criticized whatever in political field or scientific field When country started it constructive project,eonsensus hoped to use the Great Wa1l give a piece of advice to government that should care people,the reverse example is the Great Wall’s building wasted manpower and money.And this period,the expression of the Great Wall had a conversion,some dissertators analyzed the function of the Great Wall objective,affirmed it’s value.And wish to use spirit of struggling and tough to encouraging people throw themselves into the practice of building country.The second chapter discuss the expression of the Great Wall in cultural field at 1920s.Inspecting the Great Wall under cultural viewpoint started from western intelligentsia.This trend influenced Chinese cultural circles,and presented positive and negative two sides.This part mainly investigate the expression of Lu Xun and Wen Yiduo,reflected the contradictory attitude of Chinese cultural circles when intellectual watching Chinese tradition.Of course,it is widely believed that the Great Wall is the quintessence of the national culture.The chapter three mainly investigate the expression of the Great Wall during the Anti-Japanese YWar.After the September 18th Incident,the Great Wall became the line of defense,consensus utilized it’s history to give a warming to people and govemment.In 1933,after the Great Wall Anti-Japanese War exploded,People combined soldiers with the Great Wall,Praised their brave and patriotism.When China lost this war,People stressed the Great Wall’s realistic function and commemorated the Great Wall during the Anti-Japanese War,extruded it’s spirit strength.When the national crisis aggravated,building the new Great Wall made from our will became a common view.The Great Wall was molded into a symbol of Chinese nation uniting as one and persevering which referred to anti-Japanese spirit.The conclusion part is the summary and promotion of the paper.