Famous sites, read by the ground41 ptsWhat the ground says
faces south-west（sits 寅, faces 申）
Has:water in front, a low hill screening the view aheadCould be stronger:the front is too steep or blocked, nothing to lean on behind, a gap lets the wind in
The seat scored lies about 62 m from the main building. Computed from public elevation data (2026-10-14); ground only, buildings not counted, not reviewed by a feng shui master.
The place
Completed in 1420 under the Ming, the imperial palace of the Ming and Qing, built facing south. Jingshan to its north was heaped up in the Ming from earth dug for the moat and lakes; tradition calls it the palace's man-made back hill.
Why this score
It stands on the North China Plain, where everything within two or three kilometres rises only two or three degrees: Jingshan shows, but is neither high nor close enough to serve as a back hill, and the front lies flat instead of falling away. Tradition reads Beijing's setting against the Yan and Western Hills tens of kilometres off; this reading looks two or three kilometres out and cannot see a pattern that large. That is also why the best facing it finds is south-west, not the palace's south.