The description is the Afang Palace.
From: Afang Palace Fugue is a fugue essay written by Du Mu, a writer in the Tang Dynasty. The original excerpt:
Six kings, the four seas, Shu Mountain, Afang out. It covers more than three hundred miles, isolating the sky and the sun. Lixi Mountain is constructed in the north and folds in the west, going straight to Xianyang. Two rivers dissolve, into the palace wall. Five steps to a building, ten steps to a pavilion; corridor waist back, eaves high pecking; each holding the terrain, hooks and corners. The company's website is a great source of information about the company's products and services.
grantee granary, beehive water eddy, stand do not know how many of its tens of millions of fall. The long bridge lying wave, not Yun He Long? Complex road traveling in the air, not clearing up any rainbow? The highs and lows are confused, I don't know the west and east. Singing platform warm sound, spring light melting; dance hall cold sleeve, wind and rain miserable. In one day, between a palace, and the climate is not uniform.
Translation:
The monarchs of the six kingdoms perished, and the whole country was united (by the Qin); the mountains of Shu (were cut down and) bare, and the palace of Afang was built. It (covered a vast area,) overlaying more than three hundred miles of ground, and (the palace towered,) isolating the sky from the sun.
It was built northward from Mount Li, and then turned westward all the way to Xianyang. The Wei-shui and Fan-chuan rivers were vast and flowed into the palace walls. Five steps to a building, ten steps to a pavilion, corridors that linger like ribbons, teeth-like arrangement of flying eaves like a bird's beak pecking to the heights.
The pavilions are built according to the terrain of the high and low tilt, (low corner) hooked (high) the heart of the house, (side-by-side) the corners of the house to fight each other. Coiled and intertwined, twists and turns, (a bird's eye view from afar,) the complex is like a dense beehive, such as rotating water vortex.
High up, I wonder how many tens of millions of them there are. No clouds had risen, so why was there a dragon? It turned out to be a long bridge lying on the water waves. Not rain, why out of the rainbow? It turns out to be a footbridge walking in the air. (The houses) are high and low, deep and mysterious.
Makes it impossible to tell things apart. On the stage of song, because of the loud singing, it was full of warmth, as if the spring light was melting; on the dancing hall, because of the fluttering of the dancing sleeves, it was full of coldness, as if the wind and rain were bleak. In one day, in the middle of one palace, the climate was different.
Expanded Information:
Compositional Background:
The A-Fang Palace Fugue was written in the Du Mu was twenty-three years old in the first year of Bao Li of Emperor Jingzong of Tang Dynasty (825). He hoped that the ruler of the time would be motivated to rule, enrich the people and strengthen the army, but the fact was exactly the opposite of his wish.
Du Mu was outraged and saddened by the ruler's extravagance and wastefulness. He said clearly in "On the confidant article enlightenment", "Bao Li big up palace, wide sound and color, so I made 'Afang Palace Fu'."
Afang Palace Introduction:
Afang Palace, known as "the first palace under the sky", was the new imperial palace built by the Qin Empire, the first unified multi-ethnic centralized state in Chinese history. It is located 15 kilometers west of Xi'an City and 15 kilometers southeast of Xianyang City in present-day Shaanxi Province.
Built in the thirty-fifth year of Emperor Qin Shi Huang (212 years ago). Along with the Great Wall of China, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor, and the Qin Straight Road, the A Fang Palace is known as the "Four Great Projects of the First Qin Emperor", which are the landmarks of the first unification of China, and also the physical markers of the beginning of the formation of the Huaxia nation.
The site extends from the west bank of the Soap River in the east to Jiyangzhai in Chang'an District of Xi'an City in the west, from Hepingcun and Dong'auli in Weiyang District of Xi'an City in the south, and from Chezhangcun and Houweizhai in Weiyang District of Xi'an City in the north, covering a total area of 15 square kilometers.
In 1956, Afang Palace was listed as a provincial cultural relics protection unit by Shaanxi Province. on March 4, 1961, Afang Palace was announced as the first batch of national key cultural relics protection units by the State Council. in 1991, it was identified by the United Nations as the world's largest palace foundation site, which is among the wonders of the world.
In a sense, the Afang Palace is also a symbol of Qin's demise. Zhou Tianyou, president of the China Qin-Han History Research Association and former director of the Shaanxi Provincial Museum, believes that the Afang Palace is a centralized manifestation of Qin values.
Unlike Confucianism, which is introverted, Qin's values are outwardly expansive, pursuing the ultimate in everything, with a large palace, a large capital city and a large territory, and mobilizing all the country's manpower, material and financial resources to focus on the big things.
The Qin empire did lay down a lot of systems in a short period of time that have lasted through the ages, but at the same time it went beyond the capacity of the society at that time. Du Mu's influential "A Fang Palace Fugue" concludes with the following statement: "Woo-hoo! The one who destroyed the six kingdoms was also the six kingdoms, not Qin; the one who clans Qin was also Qin, not the world.
......The Qin people do not have time to mourn themselves, and the descendants mourn; the descendants mourn but do not learn from it, but also make the descendants and repeat the mourning of the descendants." The essay, written in the first year of Tang Jingzong's Baoli year, is actually an allusion to the current dynasty.
Du Mu, in his "Essay on Knowing Yourself," wrote: "The Baoli period was characterized by a great deal of palace construction and a wide range of sounds and colors, and so I wrote the Afang Palace Fu. The symbolism of Afang Palace was thus finalized.