The Function of a watchtower(of the wall of china)Signal fires were used to send messages from tower to tower. One puff of smoke meant 100 enemy soldiers approaching; two puffs meant 500, and each additional puff another 500. It took several hours to send a message the entire length of the Great Wall.
That is why it is an important job,and the watchman must stay awake to the right information,so that the kingdom may be protected from invading enemies
Although the walls of China has been called both a blessing and a curse,a blessing because it alerted them from the invaders from the north, but a curse, because the wall did not prevented the mongols from their raiding,that is why there is a continuous repair, though in latter times they replace it with stones. the idea of a watchtower is superb,both as a boundary and an alert post. they also have cannon there. To blast the enemy. Isa 21:5,8
- The signal fires were called langyan, meaning "wolves' smoke" because the fires were sometimes kept burning with wolf dung.
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