Taking children to visit the Badaling Great Wall, a parent-child tour guide’s self-cultivation

Summer vacation has begun and the mythical beasts have come out of their cages. Are you all preparing for a trip? Many readers said that the destination that children who have just started primary school want to go to is Beijing. The Beijing where Tiananmen and the Great Wall are mentioned in textbooks. Just in May this year, I took my kids to visit Beijing, and today I’m going to talk about the Great Wall.

Rouda has not yet entered elementary school, and his story about the Great Wall began when he was introduced to the majestic Great Wall in an online English class, and he yearned for it. For children, it will be better to visit historical and cultural attractions after the children have planted their own grass.

There are many sections of the Great Wall in Beijing. How to choose?

There are generally four stages to play:

Badaling is also the most convenient to reach by transportation. You can even take the high-speed train to get there! There are the most tourists and tour groups, so it’s not difficult to climb.

Huanghuacheng , the legendary Great Water Wall, you can see the scenery of three sections of the Great Wall entering the water. It is said to be "the most beautiful section of the Great Wall" in Beijing. You can play in the water in summer and it is not difficult to climb.

Mutianyu can only be reached by driving. This section is the essence of the Ming Dynasty Great Wall, and there are relatively few people. In addition to climbing the Great Wall, you can also enjoy a super long slide;

Jinshanling is the farthest, taking three hours to drive from downtown Beijing, so it’s best to stay one night. Jinshanling is more dangerous, there are fewer people, and it is more difficult to climb.

There are many wild Great Walls around Beijing, which are less crowded and have beautiful scenery. Rouda Ma went to the Gubeikou Wild Great Wall when she was in college. Still unforgettable.

Except for the Wild Great Wall, I have never been to any of the four famous sections of the Great Wall. This time I took my children alone. The Water Great Wall looks a bit complicated, Mutianyu and Jinshanling are too far away, and the Wild Great Wall is not suitable for the first place. Mainly to appreciate the majestic beauty of the Great Wall. Therefore, Badaling, which has the most people, is suitable for me.

Badaling Great Wall Guide

Tickets: Reserve in advance via official WeChat account

Transportation: There is bus No. 877 from Deshengmen directly to the Great Wall, and the whole journey takes one hour at high speed. The bus only accepts Beijing bus cards and cash, and a ticket is 12 yuan. The conductor enthusiastically explained how to visit the Badaling Great Wall, as well as the first and last bus times and the return location.

How to visit:

There are two types of cable cars and small trains (tickets only require cash). The cable car goes up in ten minutes, the small train goes up halfway (to the north 4th floor) in seven to eight minutes, and you climb half way up (to the north 8th floor). Both means of transportation are too boring for us, Rouda just wants to walk up.

In the end, it turned out that the height and thrills of the Badaling Great Wall were not enough for Rouda. We came down before we were satisfied with the climb. We started climbing at 10:30 and had already come down at 2 o'clock. The whole trip takes less than four hours round trip.

For the old mother, her legs are already a little shaky. After all, the five-year-old baby is sprinting, unsteady, and eager to climb over the wall. It is very exciting for the old mother to be on tenterhooks. While trying to keep up with her own speed, You have to drag your baby with you... I would like to remind parents who take their young children to climb mountains that they must protect their children when they stop in steep places, especially when they suddenly ask their children to stop and take pictures of them, this is most likely to happen Unable to stand and fall.

Why is the Badaling Great Wall the most famous?

Chairman Mao once said: "If you don't visit the Great Wall, you are not a hero." He refers to the North Eighth Floor of the Badaling Great Wall. The Badaling Great Wall is also famous all over the world because of this copywriting. It is said that there is a hero monument on the top where you can take photos and check in. In fact, there is no one on it, but there are several at the foot of the mountain. We went there on a weekday, and it was already very crowded and noisy, so if you want to go to the top of the Great Wall to reminisce about the past and experience the beauty of the emptiness and vastness of the Great Wall, you should not go to Badaling. The other three are more suitable.

Parent-child tour guides do their homework

The Badaling Great Wall is so simple that you don’t need a guide. You just need to know where to take the bus and go to the scenic spot to look at the map. This article mainly talks about how I, as a novice at the Great Wall, taught a five-year-old child the story of the Great Wall. In order to be a parent-child tour guide, I What homework have been done.

First of all, I would like to recommend to you a set of the book "The Great Wall" by Houlang Publishing House. There are many picture books about the Great Wall. I saw this set of books in a bookstore and was attracted by the square format and textured paper printing. Opening it was like opening the rich history of the Great Wall. Whether it is the Forbidden City or the Great Wall, I hope that children should start with books to understand it. I also hope that children can develop the habit of reading instead of showing them documentaries first. Documentaries can come after the books.

There are three books in this set, "The Great Wall", "Qin Shihuang", and "Zheng He". Put away the other two books first and focus on "The Great Wall". For five-year-old children, this book has a lot of words, but the words are large and clear. It needs to be read with parents and children. The words in the book are very good.

The editor of this book is different from other children's books. It adopts a special perspective. It uses flashback techniques to first describe the Great Wall in the eyes of foreigners. The flashback part can be ignored for now, and the children can directly start from the Great Wall in the Warring States Period.

The characteristic of this book is that it explains to children in a relatively in-depth manner the role of the Great Wall in protecting the Central Plains regime and resisting the invasion of nomads, a complex historical issue.

The book uses "terrible neighbors" to introduce the three nomads that the Great Wall has to fight against: the Huns, Mongols and Manchus. Then he described in detail the most representative Great Walls of the three periods, the Qin Great Wall, the Han Great Wall, and the Ming Great Wall. It is interspersed with historical stories such as Qin Shihuang's tyranny, Zhang Qian's expedition to the fortress, and the Silk Road. The book also describes the construction materials, construction process, functions of forts and observation towers of the Great Wall, and how to deliver messages. However, the narration method of this book is not interesting enough. If children are interested in architectural structures, they can buy it and re-tell it. Great Wall feature book.

Speaking of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, Rouda and I said that this is the Badaling Great Wall we are going to visit. Its function is to resist the Mongols and Manchus and to defend Beijing. Therefore, if we want to see it, we must start from the city center. You have to walk a long way to the outskirts of Beijing to see it.

What moved me most was the explanation at the end of the book about the significance of the Great Wall to China. It is no longer just a military defense function, but a kind of protection and a spiritual symbol of national self-confidence. The book tells how the modern powers opened the door to China through the Opium War. Facing the advanced weapons of Western colonists, the solid Great Wall can no longer protect the rivers and mountains of the motherland. Only by establishing a new system and mastering science and technology can China be saved. However, under the Japanese invasion, the Chinese soldiers sang songs to defend the Great Wall and fought bravely against the enemy.

And Rouda finally understood why our national anthem was sung:

Rise up, people who don’t want to be slaves, and build our new Great Wall with our flesh and blood!

The Great Wall represents China, and defending the Great Wall means defending China.

Read in Geirouda:

"How did China resist these foreign devils? Just look around China and you will understand that the Great Wall built by China was based on superb technology and profound knowledge of natural science. If China could ever achieve such a huge If she has such a strong defensive ability, she can also find this power again. The Great Wall is the powerful power and symbol of China!”

When I read this, I was moved to tears and my voice trembled.

Standing on the top of the Great Wall, you can look at this historical engineering miracle and marvel at the wisdom and perseverance of our ancestors. Rouda, my mother doesn’t expect you at the age of five to remember many stories about the Great Wall, how much knowledge you can understand, and what kind of feelings for your family and country you can have. But I think when you see the magnificence and vastness in front of you, and the giant dragon winding on the ridge, you must have planted the seeds of pride in your heart for being Chinese.