The history of the Old Summer Palace, the glorious history of the Old Summer Palace

The Old Summer Palace is a treasure of China's garden art, once had the title of "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", there are all kinds of gardens in the Old Summer Palace, well, if it is still 140 years ago. It must be a well-deserved world garden,..

Introduction to the Old Summer Palace: also known as the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty, is a large royal palace in the Qing Dynasty, located in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, composed of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden and the Wanchun Garden, so it is also called the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Palace. The garden covers an area of more than 350 hectares, with a construction area of 200,000 square meters and more than 150 scenes.

Historical experience: In the 48th year of Kangxi, Emperor Kangxi gave a garden in the north of Changchun Garden in the northwest suburbs of Beijing to his fourth son Yinzhen, and personally titled the garden "Old Summer Palace". In the third year of Yongzheng, Emperor Yongzheng added the palace office in the south of the Old Summer Palace, covering an area of more than 600 acres to more than 3,000 acres.

In August of the 10th year of Xianfeng, the British and French forces invaded Beijing. On October 6, occupy Yuanli and demolish Zaoming Garden. From the next day, officers and soldiers went crazy.

Today we will discuss how brilliant the Old Summer Palace, the highest peak of human historical architectural technology, is?

Let's take a closer look.

The destruction of the Old Summer Palace is shocking, how brilliant was it in its heyday? How brilliant was the Old Summer Palace in the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens"? In a word, the crown of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign royal gardens!

The Old Summer Palace, also known as the Three Yuan Ming Palaces, consists of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden and the Wanchun Garden. With a construction area of 200,000 square meters and more than 150 scenes, it is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

The Old Summer Palace was originally given by Emperor Kangxi to the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen (Yongzheng). Old Summer Palace", this name was named by Emperor Kangxi. The three-character plaque of Emperor Kangxi's imperial book is hung above the door of the Old Ming Palace.

After Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he adjusted the landscape of the garden in the Old Summer Palace, added building groups, and built Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden (renamed Wanchun Garden in the Tongzhi period) in the east and southeast neighbors of the Old Summer Palace. At that time, there were about 600 main garden buildings hanging plaques, which was the crown of ancient and modern Chinese and foreign royal gardens.

In addition to more than 100 kinds of native flowers and trees, more than 20 kinds of trees and flowers such as plum blossoms and plantains in the south of the Yangtze River, Ao Han lotus and Wushaer ware in the north of the Saibei, nasturtium in Wutai Mountain, mulberry in Xinjiang, Persian peach in South Asia, mimosa in the West, and countless rare animals were introduced.

In addition, the Old Summer Palace was also a treasure house, and it was also the largest royal museum and art gallery in the world at that time, with many treasures, books and art masterpieces. It contains rare cultural relics such as calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, secret mansion classics, bell and ding treasures, gold and silver jewelry, etc., which concentrate the essence of ancient culture. He was praised by the French writer Victor Hugo as "a model of ideals and art".

The Old Summer Palace, founded and operated by the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years, has been famous for its grand regional scale, outstanding construction skills, exquisite architectural scenery, rich cultural collection and profound national cultural connotation, and is known as "the model of all gardening arts", and was praised as "the model of ideals and art" by the French writer Victor Hugo.