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The Yuanmingyuan Imperial Garden is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was founded in the 46th year of Kangxi (1707), composed of the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, which is a Western and Chinese royal style garden, with a construction area of 160,000 square meters, and is a large royal palace created by three generations of emperors of the Qing Dynasty in more than 150 years, and is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". The Old Summer Palace inherits China's excellent gardening tradition of more than 3,000 years, not only the grace and luxury of the palace architecture, but also the euphemism and variety of the Jiangnan garden, and at the same time absorbs the essence of the European garden, integrating different styles of garden architecture, and is praised as "a model of ideal and art" by the French writer Hugo.

In October 1860, the Old Summer Palace was sacked by the British and French forces and set on fire.

The Old Summer Palace is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace was founded in the 46th year of Kangxi (1707), composed of the Old Summer Palace, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, which is a Western and Chinese royal style garden, with a construction area of 160,000 square meters, and is a large royal palace created by three generations of emperors of the Qing Dynasty in more than 150 years, and is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

The Old Summer Palace covers an area of 350 hectares, of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares, the land construction area of the Old Summer Palace is 10,000 square meters more than the Forbidden City, and the water area is equal to a Summer Palace, and the total area is equal to the Forbidden City!

In October 1860, during the Second Opium War, the Old Summer Palace was sacked by the British and French forces and set on fire.

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According to the information, the Old Summer Palace, also known as the Old Summer Palace, is located at No. 5 Zhongguancun East Road, Haidian District, Beijing, China, and is one of the royal gardens during the Qing Dynasty. The Old Summer Palace was built in 1709 by Emperor Yongzheng of the Qing Dynasty to commemorate his mother, the Holy Ancestor and Empress Xiaosheng. Covering an area of 350 hectares, the Old Summer Palace is one of the largest, most ornate, and most exquisite imperial gardens in Chinese history.

There are many kinds of landscapes in the Old Summer Palace, and the buildings are exquisite, including a large number of palaces, pavilions, gardens, ponds, rockeries, etc. The Old Summer Palace reached its heyday between the mid-18th and mid-19th centuries and became one of China's most famous gardens. However, in the 60s of the 19th century, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by the British and French forces, and it became a tragic history in modern Chinese history.

Today, part of the Old Summer Palace has been restored, but most of the buildings have been destroyed, and the remaining buildings and landscapes are only a small part of the glory of the past.

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. After Yongzheng ascended the throne in 1722, he expanded the original garden, and added the Zhengda Guangming Hall and the Qinzheng Hall in the south of the garden, as well as many duty rooms of the cabinet, the six ministries and the military aircraft department, hoping to "avoid the noise and listen to the government" in summer.

During the reign of Emperor Qianlong, in addition to the partial addition and reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace, he also built a new Changchun Garden in the east and merged it into the Wanchun Garden in the southeast. The pattern of the Three Yuan Ming Gardens was basically formed. In the Jiaqing Dynasty, the Qichun Garden (Wanchun Garden) was mainly repaired and expanded, making it one of the main garden places.

During the reign of Emperor Daoguang, the state affairs were declining day by day, and the financial resources were insufficient, but he would rather withdraw the furnishings of the "three mountains" of Wanshou, Xiangshan and Yuquan, and do not give up the reconstruction and decoration of the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty. On October 6, 1860, the British and French troops ransacked the Old Summer Palace, looted cultural relics, burned them, and wanted to restore them when the Tongzhi Emperor wanted to restore them, but due to financial difficulties, they were forced to stop and rebuild other buildings. After the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was attacked by bandits and finally turned into ruins.

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It is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, east of Haidian District. It was originally a large royal garden in the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of about 5,200 acres, with an inverted character layout and the Old Summer Palace consisting of three gardens, namely Yuanming, Changchun and Qichun, with a total area of 350 hectares. Its land floor area is as large as the Forbidden City, and its water area is equal to a Summer Palace.

The Old Summer Palace brought together the characteristics of several famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, integrated the essence of ancient Chinese gardening art, and melted the poetry and painting into the ever-changing scene with the artistic technique of the garden in the garden. The southern part of the Old Summer Palace is the imperial court area, which is the place where the emperor handles official business. The rest of the region is.

Xianfeng period.

In August of the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the 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 Mitchell to lead the invading army of more than 3,500 people to the Old Summer Palace on October 18 and set fire to it on the pretext that the Qing ** had imprisoned the British and French prisoners in the Old Summer Palace. The fire lasted three days and three nights.