A six-second video of a man knocking two bricks off a section of the Great Wall of China has caused a stir online, with netizens expressing strong criticism, the Legal Evening News reported on Tuesday.

A screen shot of the six-second video

The short-haired man, who wore a white shirt, light grey shorts and brown sandals, screamed nine times in six seconds as he knocked off one brick with his hands and another with a kick of his right foot.

The section of the Great Wall in the video looked desolate and in a state of disrepair.

At the end, the man posed to conclude his "feat". Another man, who stood nearby to shoot the video, commented: "It was not easy for Emperor Qin Shihuang to build the Great Wall, and he has come to destroy it."

The Chinese Law on Protection of Cultural Relics stipulates that those who willfully or negligently cause damage to the country's cultural relics can be charged and punished according to law.

Dong Yaohui, the vice president of the China Great Wall Society, said the section of the Great Wall in the video could be the Dapanying Great Wall located in Huailai County, Hebei Province.

According to Dong, the Dapanying Great Wall was built during the Ming dynasty, not the Qin dynasty. It is a wild section of the Great Wall that has not undergone repair and does not have around-the-clock monitoring.

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