Yuditu

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Yuditu (輿 地圖, yúdìtú) is Chinese and literally means "Reichskarten", literally "Wagen-Land-Karten".

After Qin Shihuangdi unified the empire under the Qin flag (221 BC), he began to collect all available maps of the territory. The world concept of the Chinese at that time made the world appear as a square with China as an island in the center, the outskirts of which were populated with barbarians , surrounded by the four seas. So the earth is the body of the car, the sky, on the other hand, the roof (nine-tier supported by eight columns), which is why this word was formed towards the end of the 2nd century BC.