What should we think about the invasion and burning of the Old Summer Palace by the British and Fren

Anglo-French forces. Burn down the Old Summer Palace.

Of course, it is hateful, but we must see the ins and outs of history. They started by burning down the Forbidden City.

Yes, but the British generals said that if this is burned, maybe the Chinese really want to fight with us, this is after all a public thing (see how clearly others divide it), it is a symbol of China. So they felt that if they wanted to burn, they would have to burn the emperor's private things, and finally chose the Old Summer Palace, and the most hateful thing is that many Chinese led them to the Old Summer Palace, why? Because the Chinese also think that your emperor enjoys happiness in it every day, we are in dire straits, why should we help you?

This is the loss of people's hearts, the British and French troops left after lighting the fire, and no one in the Chinese next to them said to help extinguish the fire, they all hurried to grab things, they were afraid that they would rob less than others, so it looked like the British and French troops were barbaric and hateful, in fact, it was the sorrow of our own nation, and today you can also see those in the news after the overturned, the nearby people went to pick up the things in the car instead of helping, looking even more sad, shameful, hateful, sad, sad.

I want to say: your fire has burned down the treasures of garden art; This fire burned the essence of architectural art: this fire burned down the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, which cost 530 million taels and took 151 years to build.

However, this fire could not destroy the heinous crimes of the British and French forces, the bitter hatred of the descendants of Yan and Huang, and still less the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation of unremitting self-improvement and perseverance. The ruins of the Old Summer Palace remind us all the time: backwardness - we will be beaten!

We will study hard and never let the tragedy happen again!

This matter is a bad practice for future generations, and it is recommended that you must be based on people's kindness.

Because after the British minister Ergin and the British commander Grant saw the hostages and corpses, they thought that only the destruction of the Old Summer Palace could deal a great blow to the Chinese emperor. Therefore, they regarded the splendid imperial gardens as the private property of the Chinese emperor, and became the object of revenge and personal anger of the coalition forces.

The British and French invaded China to launch the Second Opium War. In October 1856 (the sixth year of Xianfeng), the British took advantage"The Yarrow is a royal piece of honor"Provoked the Second Opium War. In March 1857, Britain** appointed Ergin, the former Governor General of Canada, as plenipotentiary, and France** appointed Baron Gro as plenipotentiary envoy to lead troops to China.

In December, the coalition forces gathered at the mouth of the Pearl River, with a total of more than 5,600 people, including 1,000 French troops and more than 4,600 British troops; **More than 20 ships, occupied Guangzhou, established the Allied Forces Committee and imposed colonial rule on Guangzhou. In 1858, the allied forces invaded the suburbs of Tianjin, forcing the Qing Dynasty to withdraw south after signing the Treaty of Tianjin. The following year, during the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Tianjin, the British minister Pruss and the French minister Bourblon put together a combined fleet to come to Tianjin Haikou again, with a total of more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 20 ships of various kinds, and returned defeated.

In 1860, Britain and France expanded the war suspicions, reappointed Ergin and Gro as plenipotentiary envoys, and appointed Clinton and Meng Douban as the commanders-in-chief of the two countries' invasion of China, leading more than 18,000 British troops, more than 7,000 French troops, 73 British ships, and 32 French ships, gathered in the Chinese sea. On August 24, they occupied Tianjin, and on October 13, they occupied Beijing, and the invading army burned, killed, looted, and committed heinous crimes. The burning of the famous imperial garden, the Old Summer Palace, caused a huge loss of Chinese culture.

Withdrew from Beijing in early November. In October 1861, China withdrew from Canton after paying all the military reparations to Britain and France under the Treaty of Peking.

From a cultural point of view, the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was an unprecedented tragedy in the history of human civilization. Judging from the course of history, this tragic disaster of backwardness and beating shocked the knowledgeable Chinese.

After the catastrophe of the Old Summer Palace, the Westernization Movement appeared, and the tragedy led to national awakening and progress. In 1861, the year after the disaster, the Westernization Movement to learn and introduce advanced foreign technology began to be established, but due to many obstacles, the country"Self-improvement"The goal has not been achieved for a long time, and the Old Summer Palace itself, as well as the whole of Beijing and the whole of China, continues to suffer. Qingyan.