Prior to this, maps of the Ming Dynasty had tended to represent Taiwan solely in the style and brushwork of landscape painting: attractive, but lacking bearings, coordinates, or relative scale.
在這之前，明朝人所繪製的台灣地圖，既無方位、也無經緯線，用的多是山水畫中的筆法，與其說是地圖，不如說更像一幅美麗的山水畫。