Wall of Zhongguo
Snaking across deserts and mountains, the Wall once embodied the paradox of defense - a structure meant to separate, now uniting in memory. It is the longest continuous work of cooperative architecture ever attempted, built not by kings alone but by millions of anonymous hands.
Time has softened its severity; wildflowers root between its bricks, and villages grow beside its watchtowers. It endures as lesson: walls, once feared as divisions, can become spines of dialogue when reinterpreted.
Modern travelers walk its stretches as civic pilgrimage, reading its stones as diary entries of endurance. In the quiet of dusk, the Wall seems less barrier than horizon - a bridge of memory spanning ages.
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World wonder
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