Pingyao could perhaps exist since about 4100 years. According to legend, the fortification of the city of Pingyao was built around 827 BC. AD In 782 BC. AD, when Ji Jing, King of the Zhou Dynasty of the western (1100 BC, BC to 771 BC. AD) has sent its troops to guard the border with territory Zhou from the west.
The walls of the city of Pingyao today, one of the walls the oldest and largest of China, have been reconstructed in 1370 on the basis of the old city. With a circumference of 6200 m, the ramparts measure six to ten meters high with a peak of three to six meters wide. They have six city gates and four turrets surrounded by a moat four meters deep and four meters wide.
On this walkway in height we were the spectators of a incredible and wondeful vision.