The Super Brick of Jiayu Pass

Jiayu Pass of The Great Wall

Jiayu Pass or Jiayu Guan (Chinese: 嘉峪关; pinyin: Jiāyù Guān) is located in Gansu province of China. It is not only the first pass at the west end of the Great Wall but also the most massive one.

Due to its size and location(it is in a desert and near Jiayu Mountain),the construction of Jiayu Pass cost a great deal of manpower and material resources, which gave rise to a number of interesting stories.The following is just one of them.

How Long Is The Great Wall

The Great Wall is a gigantic construction which stretches from Hushan(虎山), Dandong, Liaoning Province in the east and ends at Jiayuguan Pass(嘉峪关), Gansu Province in the west, across Liaoning, Hebei, Beijing, Tianjin, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Inner Mongolia, Ningxia, Gansu, and Qinghai Provinces.