After the burning of the Old Summer Palace in 1860, Hugo once said

The foreign invaders who burned the Old Summer Palace in October 1860 were the British and French forces. At that time, the British and French empires launched the Second Opium War (1856-1860) against China in order to open up the Chinese market and plunder China's wealth. In this war, the British and French forces occupied Beijing and began burning the Old Summer Palace on October 18, 1860.

According to historical records, Li Keran, the commander of the British and French forces at the time, ordered all the buildings in the Old Summer Palace to be burned down. They not only set fire to a large number of precious cultural relics, works of art, books and other cultural heritage, but also wantonly ravaged and destroyed the flowers, trees and lawns in the park. This incident brought great trauma and shame to the Chinese people and became one of the indelible scars in the history of the Chinese nation.

It is worth noting that in modern society, "Old Summer Palace" has become a symbolic word, often used to describe things that have been wantonly destroyed or suffered heavy losses and cannot be restored to their original appearance.

It shows that he still has a firm stance on the protection of cultural relics.

The impact of the Anglo-French alliance was so bad that even their own people couldn't stand ......

In 1860, the British and French forces and in 1900 the Eight-Nation Alliance sacked the Old Summer Palace twice.

On October 18, 3,500 British troops rushed into the Old Summer Palace and set fire to the Old Summer Palace. This unique masterpiece of the garden was burned to the ground.

Afterwards, according to the Qing Dynasty, only twenty or thirty palaces, pavilions and temples, official gates, duty rooms and other buildings survived in the huge Three Yuan Ming Palaces, but the doors and windows were uneven, and the interior furnishings and several cases were all looted.

Since then, some buildings in Wanshoushan Qingyi Garden, Xiangshan Jingyi Garden and Yuquan Mountain Jingmingyuan have also been burned. The Old Summer Palace and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingmingyuan, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burned to ruins.

When the British invading army burned down the Anyou Palace, because they came suddenly, the chief eunuch locked the gate of the Anyou Palace, so there were 300 eunuchs, palace maids, craftsmen, etc., who were burned alive in the Anyou Palace. became an atrocity in the history of world civilization.

In the year of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, and the gardens in the western suburbs were plundered again. This time, the Qing ** had completely lost control of the Old Summer Palace, and the bandits and ruffians took advantage of the fire to rob, and they were no longer satisfied with robbing the surplus wealth of foreigners.

They sawed off the scattered buildings, wooden bridges, and stakes in the park, and pulled them down with large ropes, and the large and small trees in the park were also cut down indiscriminately.

At that time, Qinghe Town was full of timber piles and busy trading, and the park was lined with charcoal factories, and all the branches and roots of the trees were burned into charcoal. The buildings and ancient trees of the Old Summer Palace were completely destroyed.

Conservation refurbishment. In 1949, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, China attached great importance to the protection of the Old Summer Palace site, and successively listed it as a park land and a key cultural relics protection unit, expropriated the dry land in the park, and carried out large-scale tree planting and greening.

After the formal establishment of the Old Summer Palace Management Office in 1976, the site protection and landscaping have made significant progress, the area around the Western Building has been partially cleaned up and organized, and the garden roads and garden cup facilities in the eastern half of the entire site have been improved year by year from scratch.

In 1983, the "Beijing Urban Construction Master Plan" approved by the first country clearly planned the Old Summer Palace as a heritage park.

On December 13, 2002, the renovation project of Zhengjue Temple in Beijing Yuanmingyuan was officially tendered.

The Old Summer Palace was on October 18, 1860, 3,500 British soldiers rushed into the Old Summer Palace, set fire to the Old Summer Palace, the fire did not go out for three days and three nights, and the smoke clouds shrouded the city of Beijing, which did not disperse for a long time. This unique masterpiece of the garden was burned to the ground.

The Old Summer Palace was founded in 1709 (the 48th year of Kangxi), and was originally a gift from Emperor Kangxi to Yinzhen, the fourth son of the emperor. The Old Summer Palace, also known as the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty, is a large royal garden of the Qing Dynasty, it is located in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, composed of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden and the Qichun Garden, so it is also called the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Palace. In addition, there are many small gardens, distributed on the east, west and south sides, surrounded by stars and moons.

The Old Summer Palace was founded in 1709 (the 48th year of Kangxi), and was originally a gift from Emperor Kangxi to Yinzhen, the fourth son of the emperor.

The Old Summer Palace is the crystallization of the wisdom and blood and sweat of the Chinese people, and is also a model of architectural art and culture of the Chinese people and even the world. The Old Summer Palace is a pain in the heart of every Chinese, and it also reminds us not to forget the national shame and strive for strength.

In October 1860, the Old Summer Palace was looted and burned down by British and French forces.

In 1860, the British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace.

In August 1860, British and French forces invaded Beijing. On October 6, the Old Summer Palace was occupied. From the next day, officers and soldiers went on a rampage for looting and vandalism.

In order to force the Qing ** to accept the peace conditions as soon as possible, the British minister Ergin and the British army commander Grant ordered Lieutenant General Michelle to lead the invading army of more than 3,500 people to the Old Summer Palace on October 18 and set fire to it, citing the pretext that the Qing ** had imprisoned the British and French prisoners in the Old Summer Palace. The fire, which lasted for two days and two nights, burned the Old Summer Palace to ruins.

October 18, 1860.