Qualla: Great Wall of Qi https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:38 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/m/k/great-wall-of-qi-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Great Wall of Qi https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi Great Wall of Qi: Introduction https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi/ Photo credit Rolfmueller, CC BY-SA 3.0. Everyone knows the Great Wall of China. Almost nobody knows there is an older one. The Great Wall of Qi was already ancient when the first stones of the more famous northern wall were laid. Reliable textual evidence dates its construction to 441 BC, built by the state of Qi to defend against rival kingdoms during the fractious Warring States period. And in 2024, archaeologists digging at the village of Guangli in Shandong's Changqing district uncovered something even more surprising: portions of the wall that date to the Western Zhou dynasty, potentially pushing its origins back to between 1046 and 771 BC.

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/m/k/great-wall-of-qi-wp/wwmk-great-wall-of-qi-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Great Wall of Qi: A Wall Between Rivals https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi/ Photo credit Black Dragon Society, Public domain. The state of Qi built its great wall not against northern nomads, as the later Qin dynasty would, but against fellow Chinese kingdoms that were jockeying for supremacy during one of the most violent periods in Chinese history. The wall's construction began in 441 BC, according to...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/m/k/great-wall-of-qi-wp/wwmk-great-wall-of-qi-a-wall-between-rivals.mp3 0:06 2 full Great Wall of Qi: From Jinan to the Yellow Sea https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi/ Photo credit K.Y.K.Z.K., CC BY-SA 4.0. The wall stretches from Guangli village in today's Changqing District of Jinan, running eastward across the mountain ridges of central Shandong Province all the way to the Yellow Sea at the present-day city of Qingdao. Unlike the northern Great Wall, which traverses deserts and g...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/m/k/great-wall-of-qi-wp/wwmk-great-wall-of-qi-from-jinan-to-the-yellow-sea.mp3 0:06 3 full Great Wall of Qi: A Centuries-Long Debate https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi/ Photo credit Vitsuha, CC0. Before the Tsinghua bamboo strips provided the 441 BC date, scholars argued over when the wall was built. One theory pointed to the reign of Lord Huan of Qi, who ruled from 685 to 643 BC, based on a passage in the Guanzi text. But the relevant chapters of the Guanzi were likely c...

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]]> Sat, 14 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/w/w/m/k/great-wall-of-qi-wp/wwmk-great-wall-of-qi-a-centuries-long-debate.mp3 0:06 4 full Great Wall of Qi: Older Than Fame https://qualla.com/great-wall-of-qi/ Photo credit Dirrival, CC BY-SA 2.5. The Great Wall of Qi is a designated Major National Historical and Cultural Site, yet it remains far less visited and far less known than the walls built by the Qin and later dynasties. This relative obscurity is itself a kind of historical irony. The Qi wall was built by one of ...

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