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.