Taking Beijing as an example to illustrate China’s traditional urban layout model

There are many solutions! There are specific regulations on the scale, layout and building scale of the city as early as "Zhou Li·Kaogong Ji".

"Book of Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji" specifically requires the city layout to be centered on the palace, "Nine miles square, three gates on the side, nine meridian and nine latitude of the country, nine tracks of Jingtu (road), facing the market, and on the left

Zuyoushe".

The purpose of the former dynasty is to obtain justice, and the later market is to obtain profits, highlighting the dignity of the emperor and flaunting the justice of the king.

Nine longitudes and nine latitudes divide the residential areas of citizens into neat communities.

A city wall must be built around the city. Outside the city wall, trenches must be dug and watered to form a moat. Trees must be planted along the river to have "ditch tree strength" to strengthen defense and beautify the environment.

In this way, the entire city became a chessboard pattern with central axis symmetry, which fully satisfied the needs of feudal rule and facilitated the lives of residents to a certain extent.

However, the palace is located in the middle and is not allowed to pass through, so traffic is hindered to a certain extent.

China's traditional cities are basically built in accordance with this requirement.

It was the Dadu city built in the Yuan Dynasty that established the layout of today's Beijing. The design of Dadu fully complied with the urban planning principles of imperial power supremacy such as "Zuozu and Youshe, facing the future market" in "Zhou Li Kao Gong Ji", but it is slightly longer in the north and south.

Some of them have three gates on each of the south, west, and east sides. Only two gates are left on the north wall. There is no gate in the north. It is said that this is to prevent the imperial spirit from leaking.

The layout of Dadu in the Yuan Dynasty reflects the guiding ideology of the minority rulers who established the country in the Central Plains to adapt to the situation and implement Han law.

In the early Ming Dynasty, because the North City was vulnerable to foreign invasion and shrank inward, the South City Wall moved slightly southward, leaving the East City Wall with only two gates. However, as the population gradually increased, an outer city was built in the south, giving Beijing a "convex" shape.

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Inside the capital, the central part is the palace city, the periphery of the palace city is the imperial city, the southeast of the imperial city is the Taimiao Temple, and the southwest is the Sheji Altar.

It basically remained the same in the Qing Dynasty.

The layout of Beijing city basically reflects the requirements for urban layout in "Zhou Li·Kaogong Ji".