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In the 10th century, when the Song had their capitol at Kaifeng, Khitan nomads established the Liao Dynasty in north.
在10世纪，宋朝的在开封建都的时候，游牧民族契丹人在北方建立了辽国
They built a capitol on the Tong Hui River, which carried more water back then and called it Nanjing, or southern capitol.
他们在通惠河上建立了都城，当时那条河水流比较大，他们称之为南京，意思是南方的首都
Logical for them, as they already had a northern, supreme capitol at Shangjing in Inner Mongolia.
对他们来说有逻辑，因为在北方已经有一个最高权力首都，在内蒙古上京
Why's Beijing the shape it is, a grid, oriented to the compass; a city of walls within walls with gates at every turn?
为什么北京城是这个形状呢，井字形的街道；按照正南正北方向规划，城墙围着墙，每个转角还有城门
Kublai Khan consolidated Mongol hegemony over the northern and western Han in 1271.
忽必烈巩固了蒙古政权，那是在1271年，打败了西部和北部的汉人
Here he is with his Christian wife who I call Chubby Chabi.
这就是他，还有他信基督教的妻子我称之为胖察必
Linked by the Silk Road to the western carnets, it was natural for KK to set up shop in Beijing.
由丝绸之路获得通往西域的通行证，由于这样忽必烈在北京开设商铺就很自然了
KK acquired the serves of a monk called Liu Bingzhong, who'd advised him to adopt Chinese law and suggested Da Yuan as dynasty name.
忽必烈经一位僧人教导，僧人名叫刘秉忠，他建议忽必烈采用中国的法制系统，提议用大元作为国号
Liu so impressed KK that he appointed him the architect for a new city, Dadu, meaning big capital.
刘给忽必烈留下的印象太深，所以忽必烈派他建造一个新城市，大都，意思是大的首都
Long versed in Daoism and Buddhism, Liu predicated his design on the principles of Chinese geomancy or fengshui.
长期受道教和佛教影响，刘秉忠将他对大都的设计基于中国占卜，也就是风水
Fengshui is a kind of, some of you may know about this or read books on it, it's a kind of Confucian tradition that really has crossed the Pacific,
风水是一种，有些人可能听说过它，或者读到过它，它是一种儒家传统它越过太平洋
