Information on the burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860

The Old Summer Palace was infinitely brilliant back then, why was it later burned down by the British and French forces? According to the British, it was because 37 British and French prisoners were mistreated in the Old Summer Palace that they were to burn the Old Summer Palace in retaliation, but after research, experts found that this was not the case. According to historical records, on September 21, after capturing more than 20 of them and sending them to the Old Summer Palace, Seng Lingqin transferred them to the Criminal Department the next day and imprisoned them in the South and North Prisons of the Criminal Department.

According to historical records, Zhao Guang, the secretary of the Criminal Department, and the other two ** of the Criminal Department, they personally went to the north and south prisons to inspect and see how the prisoners lived here. I also told the people who run the prison, these people, that you should be careful to defend, not to abuse, just treat you like a guest, this Pashali also took off his hat when he left the prison of the penal department and repeatedly thanked the prison administrators, if they were really abused in this "prison", as Ergin said, will Pashali be like this when he leaves the prison? This is the first statement.

The second argument is a popular one in our country, saying that these British and French invaders were to cover up their crime of robbing the Old Summer Palace, so they burned the Old Summer Palace, and this statement still has some truth. The third theory is that the reason why the British invaders wanted to burn down the Old Summer Palace was to put pressure on the Qing Dynasty to make the Qing Dynasty accept their conditions as soon as possible and sign a peace treaty so that they could withdraw from Beijing as originally planned.

Because in 1860, when the British and French troops set off from Hong Kong, it was still spring, and their officers and soldiers were all in spring clothes, but what about Beijing, the weather was cold in November, and the cold weather was very unfavorable to the British and French invaders, and the British and French troops set a date for withdrawal when they set off this time, and they had to evacuate Beijing before November 1, but the conditions they put forward were very harsh, as the negotiator of the Qing side, Yi Xin did not dare to accept it, and it was not easy to explain to Xianfeng after accepting it. Therefore, they did not dare to make contact with the British and French invaders, so until the middle of October this year, there was no movement until the 15th, and <>

Therefore, this Ergin believes that the only way to solve the problem is to burn down the Old Summer Palace. Because Erjin was well aware of the status of the Old Summer Palace in the mind of Emperor Xianfeng, it was the political center of the Qing Dynasty at that time. The invaders believed that the burning of the Old Summer Palace could have a positive effect on the Qing rulers.

Under the pressure of the invaders, Yi Xin fully accepted all the conditions put forward by the invaders, and on October 24 and 25, respectively, exchanged the ratification of the "Treaty of Tianjin" with the British Minister Ergin and the French Minister Gro, and concluded the Sino-British, Sino-French "Treaty of Peking", so the British and French invaders themselves said that the burning of the Old Summer Palace greatly hastened the part of the final agreement. Ladies and gentlemen, the above is the main reason why the Old Summer Palace was burned down by the British and French forces.

After the British and French troops entered Beijing, they looted all the valuable treasures in the Old Summer Palace, and connived at their soldiers to rob them for three days and three nights, and many things were also destroyed, in order to cover up their criminal acts, so finally the Old Summer Palace was burned down.

They are not only to destroy the evidence of their plunder, but also for an important reason, the British ** wants to give our country a little color to see, to prove that the British have trampled the ** under their feet.

The root cause is because of the cowardice and incompetence of the Qing Dynasty, and the British and French despise and oppress the Qing Dynasty, so they acted recklessly and maliciously burned the Old Summer Palace.

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It was the British and French forces that captured the Old Summer Palace, for other details, please see the first volume of the fifth grade language book!

In the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace. The course of events is:

After the British and French forces captured Beijing, 3,500 British and French troops rushed into the Old Summer Palace, set fire to the Old Summer Palace, the fire was not extinguished for three days, the Old Summer Palace and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingming Garden, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were burned into ruins, and nearly 300 eunuchs, palace maids and craftsmen died in the fire in the Anyou Palace. This world-famous garden was reduced to ruins. The fire burned for 3 days and 3 nights, becoming a rare atrocity in the history of world civilization.

The burning of the Old Summer Palace was in 1860. The burning of the Old Summer Palace took place in 1860 AD (that is, the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty). On October 18, 1860, 3,500 British soldiers rushed into the Old Summer Palace and set fire to the Old Summer Palace.

Architectural styleAnother remarkable feature of the Old Summer Palace is that it has built a large number of famous gardens and scenic spots in various parts of China, especially in the south of the Yangtze River. Emperor Qianlong Hongli once toured Jiangsu and Zhejiang six times in the south, Wutai in the west many times, Daiyue in the east, and Rehe, Shengjing (i.e., Shenyang) and Panshan and other places. Everywhere he goes, all the famous mountains and rivers and famous gardens he likes, he will let the accompanying painters copy and draw them, and after returning to Beijing, they will be imitated in the garden.

According to incomplete statistics, there are no less than forty or fifty direct copies of the garden scenery of the Old Summer Palace. The ten scenic spots of Hangzhou West Lake, even the name has not changed word for word in the park. is the so-called: who has a good scenery in the south of the Yangtze River, and moves the sky and shrinks the earth in Junhuai.

Burning the palace can show strength, before the British captured the United States Washington burned the ** mansion, so the White House became white, the British and French troops attacked the Qing Kingdom near the Beijing Division, before the Qing Emperor has been in accordance with the evacuation route of many drills from Gubeikou to Chengde, the remaining Qing Prince Gong in order to show friendship in accordance with the requirements of the British and French coalition forces to hand over the Anding Gate, let the British and French troops come in to see, Britain and France think that the direct burning of the Forbidden City is a bit excessive, not conducive to reaching an agreement, and there are tens of thousands of Qing troops in the Qing Jingshi City, first burn the Old Summer Palace, If he didn't agree to burn the Forbidden City, after burning the Old Summer Palace, Prince Gong of Qing Guogong, who stayed behind, immediately agreed to all the conditions. The military system of the Qing State, military organization, military training, military equipment, etc. have not adapted to the needs of the war, which has been shown in the outbreak of the Qing British War in 1840, the Qing army's army is divided into three kinds, the Eight Banner Army, the Green Battalion, the Yong Battalion, the first two have a formal establishment, the latter kind of things are scattered, the command and personnel rights of the Yong Battalion are in the local governor, after the suppression of the Taiping Army, Zeng Guofan took the initiative to dismiss his Yong Battalion because there was no formal establishment, Li Hongzhang retained part of his brave battalions in the name of coastal defense needs and called them defense troops, and the governors of various provinces also organized some brave battalions themselves because of their needs; after the fall of the Ming Kingdom in the West, muskets and artillery are still constantly improving, the organization and training that appear are constantly improving, and the tactical use of firearms in war is constantly improving, the Great Qing State takes the Chinese language of mounted archery as the foundation of the country, and has a kind of contempt for science and technology; mounted archery is a symbol of their bravery, the Chinese language is to maintain their true colors, and the cavalry Chinese language is their self-confidence in establishing the country, and the self-confidence of ruling the Han land, The biggest enemy of the Qing State to the outside world is always the Han people, the defense of the Han people is the first, all kinds of precautions against the Han people, before because of the small and strong Qing State destroyed the big and weak Ming State did not change his small nature, trust the five million flag people, the core territory of Manchuria and Yanyun, the Qing State because of the military system and its own strength in the future wars against foreign countries will continue to fail, the formation of a new army will move the Qing State's fundamental Eight Banners system, may cause the destruction of the Qing State, Li Hongzhang also knows the problem, but he can't change it, He trained the sailors and the Manchurian nobles were suspicious of him, such as the establishment of the naval academy to train Manchurian naval personnel to prepare to serve as the general of the navy, he wanted to move the fundamental Eight Banners system of the Qing Dynasty, move the army, after the Gengzi incident, Yuan Shikai took the lead in organizing and training the two towns of the local standing army, the town is the sentry shed of the co-standard battalion, and then the Qing State set up a training office, ready to let the provinces first organize and train the army of each town, and then hand over the command and personnel rights of the army in each town, so that the local governors of the provinces have some patrol battalion troops, In order to achieve the goal of recovering military power, at the same time, the banner people were organized separately, and an independent banner town association battalion appeared, which should be superior and loyal.