What happened to the treasure of the Old Summer Palace, and what does the Old Summer Palace look lik

It burned down and is now in ruins.

The appearance of the Old Summer Palace before was as follows:

On October 18, 1860, the Old Summer Palace was set on fire. Yesterday, it was 160 years since the Old Summer Palace was killed. When people see it today, they only see a pile of broken stones, rubble, ruins and broken walls, and it is difficult to imagine how beautiful and beautiful it once was.

How beautiful was the Old Summer Palace before it burned down? Hugo used four words to describe it: like the Moon Palace.

Its destruction is a calamity of human civilization and an eternal national pain for the Chinese.

Please build a dream with marble, white marble, bronze and porcelain, make a roof truss with cedar, drape it with silk and satin, and decorate it with precious stones, build a temple here, build a harem there, put an idol of the god, decorate it with glass, decorate it with **, decorate it with grease powder. - Victor Hugo, a gorgeous, dreamlike text by the French writer Victor Hugo, which describes the pomp and circumstance before the fall of the Old Summer Palace.

For two consecutive days, the black clouds formed by the thick smoke have been floating in the sky above the former prosperous and rich hometown, and the fresh wind blowing from the northwest direction blew the dense black clouds towards the city of Beijing, and the thick smoke brought a large number of blazing embers, wave after wave, silently falling on the streets and alleys, and the sunlight was obscured by black smoke and thick clouds, as if a lasting solar eclipse.

Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace has built a large number of famous gardens and scenic spots in various parts of China, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, and its main building types include halls, halls, pavilions, platforms, buildings, pavilions, pavilions, corridors, pavilions, houses, boats, pavilions, halls, bridges, gates, walls, towers, as well as temples, Taoist temples, villages, markets, etc.; There are 38 types of floor plans. Most of the landscaping of the Old Summer Palace is based on the theme of water, and some of the buildings contain a lot of religious elements.

How did the Yuanming Imitation Garden come about, the name was named by Emperor Kangxi. The three-character plaque of the Kangxi Emperor's imperial book is hung above the lintel of the Old Summer Palace Palace. There is an explanation for this "Yuanming" Yongzheng Emperor, saying that the meaning of the word "Yuanming" is:

round and into the gods, the gentleman is also in the middle of the time; Bright and pervasive, the wisdom of the master is also. In addition, the "Yuanming" is the Buddha name that the Yongzheng Emperor has been using since the time of the prince, and the Yongzheng Emperor believes in Buddhism, called the "Yuanming Layman", and has a deep study of Buddhism.

The Old Summer Palace is a treasure of China's garden art. It has the reputation of "the garden of ten thousand gardens", which means that there are gardens of any style. Indeed, if it is still the same today as it was 140 years ago, this super-giant garden is a well-deserved "king of the world's gardens".

It was originally a royal garden unique in the Qing Dynasty.

Construction began in 1709 and was largely completed in 1809, a century in turn. Since then, the restoration and expansion of three generations of Jiaqing, Daoguang and Xianfeng has a history of more than 150 years. In the past, people called it the Old Summer Palace, but in fact it was the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun and the H Chun (three wheels, with a total area of 347 hectares.

The land floor area is 10,000 square meters more than the Forbidden City, and the perimeter is about 10 kilometers.

The water area is equivalent to the Summer Palace. The three gardens are separated by a wall; The former is the Wanchun Garden, and the two parks are tied to the back, with the Old Summer Palace on the left and the Changchun Garden on the right. The Old Summer Palace is a water garden that occupies more than half of the entire park. Some landscapes are named after water.

In the mountains and rivers around, there are more than 140 scenic spots, bringing together the characteristics of several famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, integrating the essence of ancient gardening art in our country, and melting the poetry and painting into the ever-changing scene with the artistic technique of the garden in the garden. Among them, there are more than 50 scenic spots that directly imitate the famous gardens and scenic spots in other places.

There is also a model of the city of Venice in the square river, and the emperor can enjoy the "scenery of the water city" thousands of miles away from sitting on the bank on the mountain. The Old Summer Palace not only has extremely exquisite furnishings and decorations, but also collects and displays rare treasures, cultural relics, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, secret classics, bell and ding treasures, gold and silver jewelry and rare cultural relics, concentrating the essence of ancient culture.