[Video]汤姆·拉马斯带您亲身体验中国长城

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Tom Llamas takes us to China’s Great Wall - the largest manmade structure on earth - for a firsthand look at the historic site and a rare glimpse at the epic restoration project now underway.
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English Transcript

Our journey to the Great Wall starts just north of Beijing. From the urban center of China, we head out to the countryside. We're going up some very windy roads now up the Yan Mountains. This is one of the main mountain ranges of China. We're trying to reach a remote area of the Great Wall of China known as Jiankou. That means arrowhead.

It's extremely dangerous for visitors to hike up there and walk along the section of the Great Wall that hasn't been restored. At the mountain base, we meet our guide Xi Ran and Mr. Cheng, leading the restoration of this hard-to-reach section of the Great Wall.

For the first time now, we can actually see the Great Wall. It's up there. That's the arrowhead we were talking about. We're going to hike up there. That's actually a soldier's tower from the Ming Dynasty, about 400 to 500 years old. It was a lookout over the Great Wall.

The hike is mostly uphill, taking us around ridges, through forest canopies, and along merciless rocky terrain. As advanced as China is when it comes to technology, they're still using ancient ways to rebuild the Great Wall.

The Great Wall took nearly 2,000 years to build, designed to protect a newly unified China from invaders, Mongol tribes trying to invade and steal its riches. Today, it's the pride of the Chinese, who are spending decades trying to restore it. And it's why Mr. Cheng is still climbing at his age. He feels it's his purpose in life.

We've reached it: The Great Wall. The two-mile vertical climb and 90-minute journey bring us to the final steps that reveal the awesome size of this ancient feat, one of the wonders of the world. From this vantage point, it is incredible to see.

The Great Wall is the longest man-made structure in the world, and to see it from this perspective is incredible. It stretches for thousands of miles. And to think that humans brought these bricks one by one and assembled this. It took centuries, and many consider the Great Wall China's backbone.

But at the top, we realize there is so much work to do. The repairs are being done brick by brick. Mr. Cheng has already been at it for 20 years. He knows the work will continue long after he's gone, but says this wall and these bricks are his calling. It's really a representation of the spirit of the Chinese. It's a treasure of heritage that was left behind from the ancestors.

Mr. Cheng tells me that this wall tells China's story. That the Chinese came together to build it and they are still building it. It's not just a wall, it's the spirit of this country.

译文

我们的长城之旅从北京北边开始。我们从中国的城市中心出发前往乡村。我们现在正沿着非常崎岖的山路登上燕山。这是中国的主要山脉之一。我们正试图到达长城一个偏远的区域，被称为“箭扣”。它的意思是箭头。

对于游客来说，徒步爬上那里并在长城尚未修复的路段行走是极其危险的。在山脚下，我们遇到了导游希然（Xi
Ran）和程先生，他正领导着长城这一难以到达路段的修复工作。

现在，我们第一次亲眼看到了长城。它就在上面。那就是我们提到的“箭扣”。我们要徒步爬上去。那实际上是明朝的一座敌楼，距今约有400到500年的历史。它曾是俯瞰长城的瞭望哨。

徒步路线大部分是上坡路，带我们绕过山脊，穿过森林树冠，沿着无情的岩石地形行进。尽管中国在技术方面非常先进，但他们仍然在使用古老的方法来重建长城。

长城花了近2000年的时间建造，旨在保护新统一的中国免受入侵者的侵害——那些试图入侵并窃取财富的蒙古部落。今天，它是中国人的骄傲，他们正花费数十年的时间试图修复它。这也是程先生在他这个年纪仍然坚持攀爬的原因。他觉得这是他一生的使命。

我们到达了：长城。两英里的垂直攀爬和90分钟的旅程带我们走完最后几步，揭示了这项古代壮举的惊人规模，它是世界奇迹之一。从这个制高点看，景象令人难以置信。

长城是世界上最长的人造建筑，从这个视角看它非常震撼。它绵延数千英里。想到人类一块一块地把这些砖运上来并组装成这个样子，真是不可思议。这耗费了几个世纪的时间，许多人认为长城是中国的脊梁。

但在山顶，我们意识到还有很多工作要做。修复工作正一块砖一块砖地进行。程先生已经从事这项工作20年了。他知道在他离开后，这项工作仍将继续下去，但他表示，这堵墙和这些砖块是他的使命。这真实体现了中国人的精神。这是祖先留下的文化遗产。

程先生告诉我，这堵墙讲述了中国的故事。中国人团结一致建造了它，而且他们现在仍在继续建造。这不仅仅是一堵墙，更是这个国家的精神。