Ming dynasty hand-drawn map "cute" melon vegetable garden sedan chair horse all into the map

Core Tip: Ming Dynasty, the melon and vegetable garden can draw a map. South Yong Zhi" in a "melon and vegetable garden map". This piece of land in Ming Hongwu years to South Yong (State Prison), is located in the Jubao Gate outside the South City of the Division of the army, *** 11 pieces, covering an area of 42 acres, 5 ponds in the garden are labeled with a large "pond" word.

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This article: China News Network, by Xing Hong, Huang Shan, originally titled: "Ming Dynasty hand-drawn maps "cute" melons and vegetables garden sedan chair horses are into the map"

By 209 maps of Nanjing in different periods of time brought together into the "old map? Nanjing old shadow", a few days ago by the Nanjing Publishing Media Group? Nanjing Publishing House. The book's author, Zhu Binggui, told reporters that the ancient map of Nanjing is a very wide range of subjects, involving the scope of the political district, the city plane, the city palace, the government offices, the suburban temple altar trolls axis titan titan wreckage (13) Ч Ч Shuyuan, places of interest, mountains and lakes and many other aspects of the content, today seems to be very interesting.

Map coordinates are not the first Western, the Southern Song map has been drawn according to the "north south"

Previously, many scholars believe that the "north south left west right east" of the map coordinate system is the end of the Qing Dynasty from the West into our country, but the "Old Map?

Ancient Chinese people drew maps in the southeast, west, north, and west directions and labeled them as they wished. Zhu Bing Gui introduced, but from the "Jing Ding Jiankang Zhi" in the "Dragon Pan Tiger Crouch map", "Song Jiankang Palace of the map" and other maps, Chinese maps are clearly marked "on the north, south, left, west, right and east. Jing Ding Jiankang Zhi" is the Southern Song dynasty of Nanjing square, 1261 into the book, is the earliest existing Nanjing, the most complete official revision of the book, the maps stored *** 19, is the earliest existing map of Nanjing.

"The Dragon and Tiger Map" is drawn relatively simple, but can be seen in the embryonic form of Nanjing: the city wall built around the city, the Qinhuai River through the city, the city wall outside the mausoleums up to more than 20. Song Jiankang Palace of the Map" is marked in detail by the Song Gaozong period by the old Palace of the Southern Tang Dynasty reconstruction of the layout of the Palace of Jiankang: the South Gate is directly across the Tianjin Bridge (now the Inner Bridge), the Palace is located in the central part of the Imperial City slightly to the west, from south to north for the Palace Gate, the Palace Gate, the Hall of the Palace, the Bedchamber, the Hall of the Resurrection, the Luo Mu Tang ......

The map labeled with the latitude and longitude. The practice was introduced from the West, the earliest Nanjing map labeled with latitude and longitude is the Qing dynasty Guangxu twenty-four years by the French missionary Gelati painted "Jiangning Prefecture City Map". Surveying and mapping education gradually developed with the rise of surveying and mapping technology, and developed into an independent educational category in the middle of the Guangxu period, with central and local surveying and mapping academies throughout the country. Zhang Zhidong founded the Lushi Academy in Nanjing, and in 1909, the graduates used the new surveying method to draw the "Lushi Academy Newly Surveyed Jinling Provincial City Map", which is also included in the "Old Maps? Nanjing old shadow.

The Ming Dynasty had a budding version of hand-drawn maps, vegetables and gardens, sedan chair horses and pedestrians are included in the map

Popular hand-drawn maps of various colors, in the Ming Dynasty already had a similar "product". Old Maps? Nanjing Old Shadow" includes a number of maps, look "cute".

Ming Dynasty, the melon and vegetable garden can draw a map. South Yong Zhi" has a "map of the melon and vegetable garden". This piece of garden in Ming Hongwu years awarded to the South Yong (State Prison), is located in the South City outside the Jubao Gate after the Division, *** 11 pieces, covering an area of 42 acres, 5 ponds in the garden are labeled with a large "pond" word.

Ming Wanli 10-volume book "Newly Engraved Wonders of the Sea" has a "Jinling General Map", the closest thing to today's hand-drawn tourist map. This is a picture of the city of Jinling's triumphs, painted by Chen consistently on the way to focus on the depiction of the city walls, landscapes, scenic spots, monuments, etc., on the selection of the reading of the Jianglou, the Jubao Gate, the Drum Tower and other content are exaggerated to indicate that on the way to embellish some of the palanquin horse pedestrians, farmers plowing around the NiuShuShan area, some people sit in a palanquin to go to the banquet at the LiBai restaurant, some people in the city gates to make bowing and talk to each other, the picture is very vivid.

The Ming Dynasty Zhu Zhifan's "Forty Scenes of Jinling image poem" also has a lot of similar "hand-drawn map". One of these maps, Changgan Spring Tour, depicts the bustling scene of the ancient Changganli. Ancient Changganli is located in the area south of the Qinhuai River to the north of Yuhuatai in the present-day Zhonghua Gate, which was a densely populated area during the Spring and Autumn Period, and later became a bustling commercial area and high-class residential area in successive dynasties. This map also emphasizes both scenery and characters, and puts Li Bai's "Changgan Xing" in "Lang Rides a Bamboo Horse and Wraps Plums around the Bed. The scene of Li Bai's "Changgan Xing", "Lang rode a bamboo horse to get the plums around the bed, and lived together in Changgan Li, the two little ones had no suspicions", is vividly depicted. Another "Wuyi evening photo" depicts the scene in Wuyi Lane, the map of people walking on the road with a stretcher, some people flinging their sleeves and holding the horse, cute.