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The leisure of the artist and the insight of the writer are destined to share the duty of supervising an ink pond and two books.
Zhu Yunming, a rare Nanjing native, wrote a book on Song paper, fondly dedicated to Lu Zan.
“The jade tiger, the riverbank is mine, the beam is mine, the structure is mine, the grain is mine.”
Within the city of Yingtianfu lay the imperial capital; beyond its walls stood the metropolitan city. Just as the central axis in Zhu’s calligraphy, even though the gates of Tianfu blended seamlessly with mountains and rivers, the ancient cities of the Southern Tang and the Six Dynasties, built of brick, failed to adequately protect the deeply embedded presence of Zhu Jingzhao and the grand bureaucratic sphere; many city gates also lacked clear directional guidance leading him to the inner palace or even farther to Beijing.
Throughout the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing maintained a complete and parallel central government structure. The Ming imperial city was located in the eastern part of the city, housing the Forbidden City with its three great halls—Fengtian, Gaihua, and Jinshen—and two palaces—Qianqing and Kunning. Hongwu Gate stood on the Imperial Road, directly facing Zhengyang Gate, the main southern gate of the southern capital.
Both the imperial city and the forbidden city were square in layout, following the conventional arrangement of Huawang Gongji, with the forbidden city centered within the imperial city. The center lay along the midline extending from Hongwu Gate. Thirteen city gates, surrounded by nine within a 50-mile radius, formed a wall stretching 35 kilometers long. Since the early stages of the unification campaign under Zhu Yuanzhang’s directives, bricks from different generations bore fragments of prior history, broadening the comprehensive understanding of Yingtianfu.