The summer palace was built during the Tang Emperor Xuanzong‘s reign. This is the site plan of a Tang Dynasty royal summer palace engraved on a 64x38cm stele at a scale of 1:2800 a thousand years ago in 1080. It is a collection of the Beijing Library. This is a Tang Dynasty telestial/celestial map that indicates the spatial collaboration between big cities, mountains and rivers on earth and major planets, stars and constellations in the sky. This nearly 2,000-year-old map is no doubt the world’s earliest paper map, unearthed from an East Han tomb in Fangmatan, Gansu Province. The map was carved on a 39x47cm stone and is a collection of Sichuan Museum. The map illustrates city walls, city gates, shopping streets and residential areas with courtyards. This is a map of an ancient Chinese city dated back between 1,800 and 2,000 years ago during the East Han Dynasty. This is an illustration in the ancient book Classics of Mountains and Oceans (山海经), a collection of Chinese mythological tales. A 3,000-year-old World Map from Chinese Mythology Jin Ke snatched the weapon and lurched at King of Qin but was eventually neutralised. When the map scroll was unrolled to the end, a short sword was exposed. Prince of Yan Kingdom thus sent Jin Ke to present a map of Yan to King of Qin. In 228 BC, the Qin Kingdom in today’s Shaanxi conquered the Zhao Kingdom in today’s Hebei, which caused an alarm of Zhao’s neighbour the Yan Kingdom in today’s Beijing. The earliest recorded event associated with a map is from Sima Qian’s Records of the Grand Historian (史记) about Jin Ke’s assassination the last king of Qin who later became First Emperor Qin. Allegedly, his success in the flood control projects more than 4,000 years ago owned to a detailed map carved on a slab and presented to him by a higher being who administrates the Yellow River affairs (apparently the guy didn’t do a good job as the river either flooded or dried out).
The earliest tale about the map is related to legendary Great Yu, a hydraulic engineer and the found of Xia Dynasty.
The use of map features heavily in Chinese mythology and real historical events.
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