The downtown of Beijing city, the capital of Ming and Qing Dynasties, was composed of the inner city with nine gates and the outer city, the expanded city area, and in the middle of the inner city was an administrative district, in center of which was the imperial palace, and this layout was also slightly different from Tojo of The Rites of Zhou.
明清の北京市城では京城は9つの門を持つ内城と拡張市域である外郭とに分かれ、内城中央に皇城、その中央に宮城を配するという形で、やはり周礼の都城とは若干違いがあった。