This "six-body painting" proposed by Pei Xiu was the most scientific and perfect painting theory in the world at that time. In addition to longitude and latitude and earth projection, he proposed almost all the main factors that should be considered in modern cartography.
Therefore, he is called "the father of scientific cartography in China". This theory has been used until the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At the end of Ming Dynasty, after the Italian map with longitude and latitude lines was introduced into China, the cartographic method of China began to change.
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In the 3rd century AD, Pei Xiu's "Six-body Cartography" not only summarized the fruitful achievements of China's cartography since ancient times, but also put forward his own creative opinions, which established a strict scientific and standardized theoretical system for China's cartography for the first time, and made China's cartography enter a brand-new development stage.
Since then, it is an indisputable fact that China's map industry has made remarkable achievements.
The most representative is that Jia Dan (730 ~ 805) drew the world's most famous Hai Hua Yi Tu by drawing lessons from Pei Xiu's six methods. Jia Dan was a geographer and cartographer in the Tang Dynasty. He adopted Pei Xiu's drawing method and organized a painter at the age of 55. It took 17 years to draw a huge map of China in the Tang Dynasty.
The width of the map of foreigners in the sea is about 10 square abbot, which is 10 times larger than Pei Xiu's map of topographic abbot, which shows the scale of cartography in Tang Dynasty.
Yi Tu of Haihua is another China map masterpiece after Pei Xiu, which is of great significance in the map history of China and the world. Its main feature is that it pays attention to the textual research of historical geography, and the ancient and modern place names are marked with different colors, creating a precedent for the evolution map of China.
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