Looking for a Great Place to Visit? Check out Ancient China! Use this handy guide to plan your trip. While you're there: Visit the Great Wall, which is 1,500 miles long and wide enough for three wagons to travel side by side. Become an artist! Create beautiful Chinese characters with a brush, ink stick, lacquer box, and elegant paper. Wear your money. The half-liang coin has a hole in the center so you can wear it as a bracelet or around your neck. Go fly a kite. Chinese kites are made of silk or paper and bamboo. They come in all sorts of shapes, like dragons and tigers.