Original text:
Artisans rule the country, nine miles away, and there are three doors next to it. Junior high school nine classics and nine latitudes, nine traces of painting, left ancestors and right, facing the market, the city facing the husband. Xia Houshi Stone Chambers Stone Chambers, Tang Xiuerqi, Guang Yi, Five Stone Chambers, Three Four Steps, Four Three Feet, Nine Stone Chambers, Two Clips on All Sides, Windows, White Ropes, Three Halls and Three Rooms.
Vernacular translation:
The craftsmen built a nine-mile-square capital with three doors on each side. There are nine north-south avenues and nine east-west avenues in the metropolis, and each avenue can accommodate nine cars in parallel. Outside the road gate of the palace, there is the ancestral hall on the left and the social altar on the right; In front of the roadbed of the palace is the court, and behind Gong Bei is the city. Every city and every dynasty is a hundred paces. ?
Xia Houshi's room is seven steps deep before and after the hall, and four times its depth is twenty-eight steps. There are five rooms in the four corners and the center of the hall, each room is four steps square, and each side has three four steps square; There are four walls on each side, each wall is three feet thick, and each side has four walls three feet thick.
There are nine steps around the hall. Every room has a door, and there are two windows on both sides of each door. Paint the wall white with clam ash. The entrance hall is two-thirds of the main hall, and the room behind the hall is one-third of the main hall.
Extended data:
Zhou Li's content is extremely rich, involving all aspects of social life. The recorded ritual system is the most systematic, including national ceremonies such as sacrifice, pilgrimage, sealing off the country, hunting tour and funeral. , as well as the tripod system, music hanging system, riding system, clothing system, jade ceremony system and other specific norms. , and records of the grades, combinations, shapes and degrees of various ritual vessels. Many systems are unique in this book, so they are particularly valuable.
The chapter "Examination of Workers and Craftsmen" contains the rules and regulations of the city. This system was only one of the governing systems at the beginning of the founding of the Western Zhou Dynasty, and was formulated for the first climax of capital construction represented by Zhou Gongying Luo.