The Grand Canal in China: An Envoy of Civilization Crossing the Historical Boundaries
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https://doi.org/10.70088/j109fc67Keywords:
The Grand Canal, cultural, an envoy of civilization, historicalAbstract
The Grand Canal, as a world man-made mega project with a length of 3200 kilometers, was listed as a world heritage site in 2014. The excavation of the Grand Canal was firstly to meet the needs of armies in the wartime. The Grand Canal connected the northern political center with the southern economical center and was gradually extended northward with the transferring of the nation's political center. In this study, the search strategy a is applied to analyze and summarize the data collected from scientific journals, local chronicles and renown classics to depict the cultural and historical connotation of the Grand Canal and reveal its role as an envoy of civilization.References
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