The royal city of the Kaogong ji
The ideal capital of the Record of Trades: nine li square, three gates a side, nine roads each way, palace at the centre, temple left, altar right, court in front, market behind.
The rules it illustrates
The capital: nine li square, three gates a side, nine roads each way. Lay out the royal city as a square of nine li on each side, with three gates in each wall and, within, nine roads running north–south and nine east–west, each wide enough for nine chariots abreast.
Temple on the left, altar on the right; court in front, market behind. With the palace at the centre facing south, place the ancestral temple on its left (east) and the altar of soil and grain on its right (west); put the court in front and the market behind, each one fu (a hundred paces) square.
Where it appears in the book
In the styles Chinese.
In the chapters China, Japan and Korea.