Thus in imperial times not only the capital, but even provincial and prefectural cities, were all based more or less on a standard model, and differed only in scale.
依此規模，行政中心京城、省城、府城一級級類推，不僅長安城，元代建大部（北京）、甚至清朝在台北建城，多少都依此規格營建，只是依城市等級，規模有大小之分。