Ambitious Residences

The construction of Nanjing city in the early Ming Dynasty, with its "e;wall"e; architecture, interpreted the capital as the "e;central land of the country"e; in terms of legal order, reflecting Zhu Yuanzhang's pursuit of the idea of "e;dwelling in the center and planning for all directions,"e; aiming to achieve the traditional significance of the Ming Dynasty's capital as "e;residing in the center and planning for all directions."e; The book systematically organizes the issues of the Ming Dynasty's establishment and construction of the capital, especially the rise and fall of the dual-capital system and the central capital, the city layout and architectural hierarchy, and the relationship between the two constructions of Nanjing city and the "e;central land of the country."e; It also clarifies the historical facts related to the construction of the city wall and reveals the labor organization form and the operation of the grassroots society in the early Ming Dynasty by interpreting the inscriptions on the Nanjing city wall bricks.