East Capital Liang City, with Gen River embracing its front and Liang River accompanying its back, is a city with four broad streets leading in from all directions and converging from far and wide. It stretches for fifty li with deep trenches and high walls. Twelve gates open up into nine bustling markets, arranged like a chessboard with houses and alleys in neat and straight lines. Thousands of doors and ten thousand households are densely packed.
The nine markets open, goods are assorted and shuttled through, merchants and travelers throng together, treasures are piled high, gold shops and jewel markets, silk and satin fill the courtyards. The neighborhoods are bustling, songs and drums echo in the sky, market towers are noisy, kitchen smoke rises, ornamental lanterns light up, music and songs never cease.
