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Fig. 1.6 Plan of old Beijing City
1 . Palaces, 2 . Imperial Ancestral Temple, 3 . Altar of Land and Grain, 4 . Altar of Heaven, 5 . Altar
of Earth, 6 . Altar of Sun, 7 . Altar of Moon, 8 . Xiannong Altar (Altar of the God of Agriculture),
9 . Western Garden, 10 . Jing Hill, 11 . Confucian Temple, 12 . Imperial College, 13 . Residence
of Princes and Princesses, 14 . Yamun, 15 . Barns, 16 . Buddhist Temples, 17 . Taoist temples,
18 . Islamic mosques, 19 . Examination Hall, 20 . Bell and Drum Towers, 21 . Elephants stall,
22 . Catholic church, 23. Barrack (From A Brief History of Chinese Architecture , vol. 1,
pp. 183-184)
But as a Chinese saying goes: “things will develop in the opposite direction when
they become extreme.” The planning and designing of the old city of Beijing dem-
onstrated that the autocratic feudalism in Chinese history had gone to its extreme.
And this extreme autocracy led to its own collapse.
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