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Through more than 20 years of historical research and personal visits in recent years, the author of this book has accumulated a large amount of detailed historical materials, pictures, and hand-drawn drawings. This book aims to enable readers to understand the general overview of the city waterways, alleys, alleys, and courtyard houses in the ancient city of Beijing from a macro perspective. It also wants to enable readers to understand its regulations, shapes, structures, functions, advantages and other appreciation standards and scales, connotations and tastes from a micro perspective. It fills the popular gap in the field of Beijing architecture. A major feature of this book is that in form, pictures are used to represent descriptions, texts are used to explain pictures, and pictures and texts complement each other, making the rigorous narrative simple and clear. This book is a long-selling book and is suitable for readers who are interested in Beijing's history and architecture.

The book "Pulse of the City: Illustrated Altar Temples in the Ancient City of Beijing" is a companion volume to the book "Pulse of the City: Illustrated Ancient Buildings of the Ancient City of Beijing". The content of this book mainly describes: 1. The evolution, current situation, architectural features and sacrificial purposes of the altars in Beijing; 2. The heavenly features involved in the altars in Beijing 3. The history, current situation, architectural features and purpose of worship of Beijing's three major temples; 4. The history, current situation, architectural features and purpose of worship of Beijing's three major temples; 5. The historical figures, gods and earthly objects involved in Beijing's three major temples. This book will describe the altar temples in Beijing with a large number of photos and drawings, as well as easy-to-understand words with humanistic content. Sacrificing sacrifices to gods, earth, ancestors, and people who have contributed to future generations is a Chinese tradition. It shows that the Chinese people respect, pray, be grateful, repay, commemorate, remember, and establish a sense of honor and disgrace to gods, earth, ancestors, and people who have contributed to future generations.