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Reconstruction of the Masterplan of Jinmingchi Garden Shevchenko

Considering that stone masonry has Waterfront Hall’s foundation, and by
totally disappeared, it is highly possible that referring to this size, the sizes of other
the width of 15 m mentioned in buildings in the Garden can be preliminarily
archaeological reports refer to the width of the judged [Figure 7].

Figure 7. The analysis of the Scales of Halls in Jinmingchi Zhengbiao Tu. Source: Analysis by the author

First of all, the 15m-width foundation of the Song era, which are definitely not
the Waterfront Hall is marked as the scale accidental. Although the painter exaggerated
ruler, excluding the stone masonry. Based on the scales of the buildings, the outlines of the
this scale ruler, the dimensions of the other buildings and the proportions between the
buildings can be obtained. Astonishingly, the adjacent halls are rather accurate, which is a
length of the Xian Bridge, one side of central basic requirement for Jiehua (Boundary
island, steps of the Waterfront Hall, and Painting). Therefore, it can be speculated that
distance from Baojin Tower to Xian Bridge the ancient craftsmen built Jinmingchi using
are all 31 m, equal to 100 chi or 10 zhang in a grid of 10 or 5 zhang (丈 ). Fu Xinian

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