皇都——城之墙
通过明朝开国皇帝朱元璋定居应天,修建城墙开始,解析城墙与都城的建设、城墙形制与明代政治体制、城墙与中国农耕文化之间的关系,作为一种珍贵的遗产形态,明代都城的政治、经济和文化等种种文化,都可以从现存的明城墙中得到直观体现;
Episode 1 "The Imperial Capital": After settling in Yingtian (Nanjing), Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, issued a decree for the construction of a city wall. This episode explores the relationship between the construction of the city wall and the city itself, the wall's design and the Ming-era political systems, as well as the wall and Chinese agriculture. When one observes the Ming City Wall, the politics, economics, and other cultural aspects of the Ming Dynasty are clearly reflected by these treasured cultural relics that are still standing today.