Introduction to the "Geographic Map": The "Zuili Map" is a geographical map. It was created in the seventh year of Chunyou (1247) in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is 6 feet 7 minutes long and 3 feet 1 minute 5 wide. It is the earliest stone-engraved national map of China in the world. one. The original drawing was one of the eight pictures Huang Shang presented to Emperor Guangzong when he ascended the throne of Song Dynasty, about 1190 years ago. Judging from Wang Zhiyuan's copy and engraving, the "Geographical Map" is more accurate than the "Huayi Map". All water names are drawn with oval circles to make them more eye-catching; the mountain symbols are changed from herringbone to natural descriptions to increase the three-dimensionality; many Places are painted with forest symbols; place names are represented by boxes. On the whole, although there is a lot of content, it can skillfully combine intuitive scene descriptions with abstract two-dimensional symbols, and differentiate complex content at different levels, so that it is numerous but not confusing.

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