The humiliating events that took place after the destruction of the Old Summer Palace

Information about the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, information on the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, extinguishing materials of the Old Summer Palace On October 18, 1860, the British and French forces began to burn the world-famous Qing Dynasty royal gardens.

In addition to the autumn breeze in October, we can't help but feel nostalgic for the beauty of the classical gardens of the Old Summer Palace, a typical example of garden art in the western suburbs. On the contrary, as the British military chaplain said, "It is necessary that there is no poet, painter, art connoisseur, foreign scholar, and other genius to write all the gardens, to describe them thoroughly, and to give you a little idea .......""The tragedy of the ruins left after the catastrophe is sending countless mourners in the 20th century, which has inspired many people to think about it.

The French writer Hugo praised the garden as a wonder of oriental art, the western suburbs of Beijing are picturesque, not only the verdant mountains are interspersed with hundreds of miles, the mountain springs also meandered to the southeast of the plain, converging into the famous Kunming Lake and other rivers, lakes and ponds, if the road is colorful. From Liao, Jinqu to the Ming Dynasty, the rebels who were building the capital in Beijing have successively established many garden palaces here. From its fashionable and remote northeast to the Manchu royal family, after the establishment of the capital of Beijing, and then sinking into the beauty of the south of the Yangtze River, and experiencing some European luxury construction from foreign missionaries (unfortunately not interested in its technology and culture), he decided to integrate the beauty of the whole country in the royal Old Summer Palace.

The Old Summer Palace was in operation for 151 years, from its construction in 1709 to its burning down in 1860. Several generations of Qing emperors did not know how to spend more than the country's financial and material resources to build that unprecedented royal garden of previous dynasties. The garden is composed of Fangming Garden, Wanchun Garden, Changchun Garden, so it is also called "Fangming Three Gardens".

The three gardens cover an area of 5,200 acres, which is 850 acres larger than the largest existing royal garden, the Summer Palace. The construction area is 160,000 square meters, which is equivalent to the construction area of the Beijing Imperial Palace. There are no more than 100 scenic spots in the three parks, and countless buildings, palaces, corridors, pavilions, and pavilions are all outside the mountains and rivers.

Fang Mingyuan adheres to the inferior garden-making art of foreign dynasties, brings together famous gardens and scenic spots across the country, and also courageously accepts the Western form of construction, presenting a group of "Western buildings" that combine foreign and Western styles. Foreign gardens can be called the assimilation of scenery and architecture, which is not in line with Western gardens and is not suitable for Japanese gardens to follow the scenery. The Old Summer Palace is a combination of foreign, Japanese and Western European three types of garden spirit, its reputation has not spread to the West for a long time, taking the same name as the Palace of Versailles in France, was destroyed as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

The park also collects many secret books, celebrity calligraphy and paintings, Ding Yi ritual vessels, gold bead treasures, copper porcelain antiques, and is one of the treasure houses of human culture. The famous French writer Victor Hugo once wrote a letter to Captain Butler: "There is no wonder of the world in a corner of the world."

The wonder is called the Old Summer Palace. There are no two streams of art, one is the ideal, and the ideal occurs in European art; One is fantasy, fantasy happens in oriental art. The Old Summer Palace is imagining its position outside of art, just as the Parthenon is outside of ideal art.

Go to the Encyclopedia of the Old Summer Palace, where the introduction is very detailed, and I won't copy it for you.

The Eight-Nation Coalition is not a human being, destroying what my Chinese ancestors left behind, but the most unforgivable thing is Cixi, the national shame...

The Old Summer Palace was destroyed by the British and French forces, and some people were ordered to set fire to the garden, and the fire burned for 3 days and 3 nights.