Datong Nine Dragon Wall

The Nine Dragon wall, located in the Yang He Street of Datong, was built in 1771 of the Ming Dynasty. It was the glass screen wall facing the gate of a house that belongs to Zhugui, the 13th son of the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuan Zhang. However, it was originally a part of the gate to Prince Hongwu's Mansion. Till now, it has a history of more than 600 years.
The wall is about 45.5 meters in length, 8 meters in height, and 2.02 meters in thickness. And it was built 250 years earlier then the wall in Beijing, and the volume is three time of the wall in Beihai. In addition, it is the largest that exist today and the earliest wall built in China.
The Nine Dragon Wall was made of 426 pieces of glazed tiles which were made especially with many different colors. In the front of the wall, there are nine dragons reflected in the pond, and they are playing with pearls, and it is filled with much interesting.

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