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In the 10th century, when the Song had their capitol at Kaifeng, Khitan nomads established the Liao Dynasty in north.
在10世紀(jì)，宋朝的在開封建都的時(shí)候，游牧民族契丹人在北方建立了遼國
They built a capitol on the Tong Hui River, which carried more water back then and called it Nanjing, or southern capitol.
他們?cè)谕ɑ莺由辖⒘硕汲?，?dāng)時(shí)那條河水流比較大，他們稱之為南京，意思是南方的首都
Logical for them, as they already had a northern, supreme capitol at Shangjing in Inner Mongolia.
對(duì)他們來說有邏輯，因?yàn)樵诒狈揭呀?jīng)有一個(gè)最高權(quán)力首都，在內(nèi)蒙古上京
Why's Beijing the shape it is, a grid, oriented to the compass; a city of walls within walls with gates at every turn?
為什么北京城是這個(gè)形狀呢，井字形的街道；按照正南正北方向規(guī)劃，城墻圍著墻，每個(gè)轉(zhuǎn)角還有城門
Kublai Khan consolidated Mongol hegemony over the northern and western Han in 1271.
忽必烈鞏固了蒙古政權(quán)，那是在1271年，打敗了西部和北部的漢人
Here he is with his Christian wife who I call Chubby Chabi.
這就是他，還有他信基督教的妻子我稱之為胖察必
Linked by the Silk Road to the western carnets, it was natural for KK to set up shop in Beijing.
由絲綢之路獲得通往西域的通行證，由于這樣忽必烈在北京開設(shè)商鋪就很自然了
KK acquired the serves of a monk called Liu Bingzhong, who'd advised him to adopt Chinese law and suggested Da Yuan as dynasty name.
忽必烈經(jīng)一位僧人教導(dǎo)，僧人名叫劉秉忠，他建議忽必烈采用中國的法制系統(tǒng)，提議用大元作為國號(hào)
Liu so impressed KK that he appointed him the architect for a new city, Dadu, meaning big capital.
劉給忽必烈留下的印象太深，所以忽必烈派他建造一個(gè)新城市，大都，意思是大的首都
Long versed in Daoism and Buddhism, Liu predicated his design on the principles of Chinese geomancy or fengshui.
長期受道教和佛教影響，劉秉忠將他對(duì)大都的設(shè)計(jì)基于中國占卜，也就是風(fēng)水
Fengshui is a kind of, some of you may know about this or read books on it, it's a kind of Confucian tradition that really has crossed the Pacific,
風(fēng)水是一種，有些人可能聽說過它，或者讀到過它，它是一種儒家傳統(tǒng)它越過太平洋
