The city served, as one later historian describes it, as “both court and emporium”, ringed by a double curtain of defensive walls, “square for cosmic order”.
正如后世一位历史学家所述,开封城为双重防御幕墙环绕,统御宇宙;即是帝都,又是商业中心。
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The fruit of this collaboration is an ambitious double album “Parfums Ottomans” that purports to render Ottoman court music in its purest form.