The Mongol Yuan ruler Kublai Khan built a new capital, Dadu ("great capital"), on the site of modern Beijing, planned by Liu Bingzhong on an orthogonal grid keyed to the Kaogongji ideal. It set the central axis, the palace-city position and the grid of hutong lanes that the Ming and Qing later inherited and rebuilt. The city combined Chinese cosmological planning with the administrative needs of a Eurasian empire.
Dadu fixed the location and underlying plan of Beijing, directly shaping the form of China's capital for the next seven centuries.
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