Marco Polo calls “the Lord”s Great Palace
[’The _Ta-ming tien_ (Hall of great brightness) is without doubt what
Marco Polo calls “the Lord”s Great Palace.”… He states, that it “hath no
upper story”; and indeed, the palace buildings which the Chinese call
_tien_ are always of one story. Polo speaks also of a “very fine pillared
balustrade” (the _chu lang_, pillared verandah, of the Chinese author).
Marco Polo states that the basement of the great palace “is raised some
ten palms above the surrounding soil.” We find in the _Ku kung i lu_: “The
basement of the Ta-ming tien is raised about 10 _ch”i_ above the soil.”
There can also be no doubt that the Ta-ming tien stood at about the same
place where now the _T”ai-ho tien_, the principal hall of the palace, is
situated.’ (_Bretschneider, Peking_, 28, note.)
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