DONGJING MENG HUA LU / 卷三

上清宮

A sacred network.

Meng stops following one street and begins naming religious institutions across the capital. The page keeps his location phrases visible while refusing to turn a textual directory into invented coordinates.

OPEN THE SACRED DIRECTORY ↓
Digitized Yuan-period printed witness of Dongjing Meng Hua Lu
TEXT WITNESS 《幽蘭居士東京夢華錄》 / Yuan blockprintPublic-domain scan / textual witness, not a reconstructed religious mapOpen scan / Public domain ↗
01 / SACRED DIRECTORY

A capital overlaid by named institutions.

Each card keeps Meng's own location phrase. The clusters organize reading on screen; they do not claim measured distance, exact orientation or surviving coordinates.

01
NEW SONG GATE / EAST WATER GATE

EASTERN ANCHORS

PALACE上清宮

在新宋門裏街北

LOWER COURT茆山下院

以西

GUAN醴泉觀

在東水門裏

TEMPLE + ADJACENCY景德寺

在上清宮背 · 寺前有桃花洞

02
OLD SONG GATE / OLD FENGQIU / NORTH

NORTHERN DIRECTORY

YUAN觀音院

舊宋門後 · 太廟南門

TEMPLE / 24 COURTS開寶寺

舊封丘門外斜街子 · 內有二十四院

TEMPLE天清寺

州北清暉橋

COURT / VARIANT仁王院

Common text; Siku reads 仁玉院.

03
GATES + LANES + WESTERN QUARTERS

THE LIST SPREADS

YUAN興德院

金水門外

PALACE長生宮

鹿家巷

TEMPLE顯寧寺

炭場巷

TEMPLE北婆臺寺

陳州門裏

TEMPLE兜率寺

紅門道地

TEMPLE踴佛寺

州西草場巷街

YUAN南十方靜因院

州西油醋巷

YUAN浴室院

第三條甜水巷

YUAN福田院

舊曹門外

TEMPLE報恩寺

卸鹽巷

PALACE瑤華宮

金水門外

GUAN萬壽觀

舊酸棗門外 · 十王宮前

04
WOMEN RELIGIOUS / TEXTUALLY EXPLICIT

WOMEN APPEAR IN THE DIRECTORY.

WOMEN RELIGIOUS太和宮女道士

州西洪橋子大街

WORKING LOCK洞元觀女道士

班樓北

Common electronic text has「又道士」; Siku reads「女道士」.

Entry 19 moved outward from Xiangguo Temple by street sequence. Entry 20 changes scale again. Meng compresses the city into a list of institutions and location phrases. The result is religious geography without a survey.

1. The primary text reads like an urban directory.

PRIMARY TEXT20A / SHANGQING PALACE DIRECTORY
上清宮,在新宋門裏街北,以西茆山下院。醴泉觀,在東水門裏。觀音院,在舊宋門後太廟南門。景德寺,在上清宮背,寺前有桃花洞,皆妓館。開寶寺,在舊封丘門外斜街子,內有二十四院,惟仁王院最盛。天清寺,在州北清暉橋。興德院,在金水門外。長生宮,在鹿家巷。顯寧寺,在炭場巷。北婆臺寺,在陳州門裏。兜率寺,在紅門道地。踴佛寺,在州西草場巷街。南十方靜因院,在州西油醋巷。浴室院,在第三條甜水巷。福田院,在舊曹門外。報恩寺,在卸鹽巷。太和宮女道士,在州西洪橋子大街。洞元觀女道士,在班樓北。瑤華宮,在金水門外。萬壽觀,在舊酸棗門外十王宮前。
WORKING TRANSLATION

Shangqing Palace was north of the street inside New Song Gate; to its west was the lower court of Maoshan. Liquan Guan was inside East Water Gate. Guanyin Yuan was behind Old Song Gate, by the south gate of the imperial ancestral temple. Jingde Temple stood behind Shangqing Palace; in front of it was Peach-Blossom Cave, occupied by courtesan houses. Kaibao Temple stood on the diagonal street outside Old Fengqiu Gate and contained twenty-four courts, of which Renwang Yuan was the most prominent. The list continues across Qinghui Bridge, Jinshui Gate, Lujia Lane, Tanchang Lane, Chenzhou Gate, western lanes, Sweetwater Lane, Old Caomen and other anchors, ending with Taihe Palace and Dongyuan Guan associated with women Daoists, Yaohua Palace, and Wanshou Guan outside Old Suanzao Gate in front of Shiwang Palace.

Working punctuation follows the common transcription, with the Dongyuan Guan phrase adjusted from the Siku comparison and flagged below.Translation: Galok / working translation
GALOK READING

The chapter's value lies in plurality and distribution. Religious institutions are remembered through ordinary urban anchors — gates, bridges, lanes and commercial streets — rather than isolated in a single sacred precinct.

2. Distribution is evidence; screen position is editorial.

MAP LIMIT / HARD RULE NO INVENTED COORDINATES.

Meng supplies relative location language, but this passage does not provide a measured citywide plan. The constellation above groups names to expose repetition and spread. It should never be read as a georeferenced reconstruction.

TEXT → location phraseINTERFACE → reading clusterUNKNOWN → exact geometry

3. Two small variants change how confidently the directory can be labeled.

02 / TEXT LOCK

Keep the transmitted rough edges visible.

COMMON ELECTRONIC TEXT仁王院
SIKU仁玉院

The page retains 仁王院 in the working text and records the Siku form rather than silently smoothing the difference.

COMMON ELECTRONIC TEXT洞元觀又道士
SIKU / WORKING LOCK洞元觀女道士

The Siku reading fits the parallel phrase 太和宮女道士 and is used here as the working lock. The common form remains visible because this is a collation choice, not a claim that the transmission is uniform.

VOLUME III / NEXT MOVEMENT

The religious directory closes Movement B. The next entry returns to Mahang Street and extended-hours retail.

THE CITY EATS LATE.
21 / 馬行街鋪席Queued for research and collation