The Kang Hsi map even features tiny lifelike individuals, some empty-handed, some carrying loads, some leading an ox or driving a cart. There are farmers and livestock in the villages, and deer and hunters out on the plains, all providing an authentic picture of what life was like at the time.
其中以康熙台灣輿圖最特別。這張地圖上繪有往來的行人，或徒手、或挑貨、或牽牛、或駛牛車；村落中還有農人、牛隻、牛車；荒埔上有鹿群，還有狩獵的人群，相當逼真，為學者提供了當時社會最真實的樣貌。