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The Hall of Prayer for Good Harvests is a wooden calendar: four inner “dragon well” pillars for the seasons, twelve for the months, twelve for the two-hour watches of the day — twenty-eight columns for the twenty-eight lunar mansions, and not a nail in the frame. The park itself is a diagram of the cosmos, round to the north for heaven and square to the south for earth; the emperor walked it alone.
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Beijing, China
The Chinese name is Xiangshan — incense hills, not perfume. The summit is Incense-Burner Peak: two rocks that read as bronze censers, set in a Jin-dynasty hunting ground Qianlong later rebuilt as Jingyi Garden, then sacked twice by foreign armies. The famous autumn fire is not maple; it is smoke trees, a hillside of Cotinus that turns as if the incense finally caught.
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Beijing, China
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