The Impact of the Yangtze River and the Profound Implications of the Establishment of Wu (229-280AD) Captial in Nanjing

The geographical landscape of the origin and the development of the city is important. For a preservation plan of an city, we need to explore the temporal and spatial change and succession of geography. The Yangtze River for the origin and change of Nanjing city landscape has important and profound meaning. During the Three Kingdoms Period, Sun Quan relied on the insurmountable Yangtze River to establish the capital in Nanjing and built his base in the South. Then each dynasty of history built Nanjing city based upon its natural geographical characteristics, which influenced Nanjing city space layout. Earlier, Nanjing city buildings reflected the natural materialism, and later gradually enveloped into King atomshere Feng Shui violet idealism. A new ancient capital landscape preservation planning must be completed in natural landscape system context. Protection of relics of the natural mountains and rivers is the foundation of modern city landscape characteristic.