Hugo s praise of the Old Summer Palace and the satire of the invaders 5

I know ah Praise: Please build a dream with marble, jade, bronze, porcelain, make its roof truss with cedar, decorate it with precious stones, drape it with silk, build a temple here, build a harem there, build a city tower, put the statue of a god in it, put a strange beast in it, decorate it with glass, decorate it with enamel, decorate it with **, apply grease powder, ask the architect who is also a poet to build a thousand and one dreams of a thousand and one nights, and add gardens, a square pool, a fountain at a glance, and flocks of swans and ibis.

And peacocks, in short, suppose that some kind of dazzling cave that man fantasizes about, which is a temple and a palace in appearance, is actually a unique miracle in the world, and that is this famous garden.

Greece has the Parthenon.

Egypt had pyramids, and Rome had the Colosseum.

There is Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris.

And in the east there is the Old Summer Palace.

If you say, you haven't seen it, but you have dreamed of it. It's some kind of shocking and unknown masterpiece, faintly visible in the indescribable morning light. It's like the horizon of European civilization.

Silhouette of an Asian civilization glimpsed above.

Satirize. One day, two robbers from Europe broke into the Old Summer Palace. One robber looted the property, and the other set it on fire.

Great achievement! The harvest is huge! Two victors, one stuffed with fanny packs, which is visible, and the other with a full box. They returned to Europe, arm in arm, grinning. This is the story of these two robbers.

We Europeans are civilized people, and the Chinese are barbarians in our eyes. That's what civilization does to barbarism.

Now, I confirm that there was a theft and that there were two thieves.

The Old Summer Palace is an important cultural treasure and art temple in China, and being robbed and destroyed by the invaders is not only a shame for our country, but also a witness to the banditry of the invaders. I want to say to them that one day, when the Chinese nation is rejuvenated, all the stolen cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace will be claimed back in another way.

Praise: I don't want to remember your past prosperity, I only want to open my eyes and see the remnants of your prosperity and the scars of the nation.

Thanks to the ups and downs of the past hundred years, it did not sweep away the scars and remnants, and deliberately left the tragedy of the first garden of the motherland.

Scars are painful, but touching them can keep the heart awake, and yesterday's blood and prosperity will not pass in vain.

The remnant is not beautiful, it is the ash of beauty. However, the ashes preserve the bitter hatred of beauty in the event of suffering: it is not the scenery that you hurt, but the human heart, and sooner or later you will feel this pain.

Hateful: You have burned not only the beautiful scenery, but also the dignity of our Chinese nation, as well as the crystallization of our wisdom!!

Somewhere in the world, there is a wonder of the world. This miracle is called the Old Summer Palace. There are two ** in art, one is the ideal, the ideal produces European art; The first is fantasy, which gives rise to oriental art.

The Old Summer Palace is in fantasy art what the Parthenon is in ideal art. - Hugo.

The French Empire, having received half of the loot from this victory, was now naïve enough to display the splendid plunder of the Round Garden as if it were the real owner. I aspire to the day when France will be able to shake off its burdens, cleanse its culpability, and return this wealth to China, which has been plundered. - Hugo.

In 1861, in a letter to his friend, Captain Barrett, who had participated in the Second Opium War, the French writer Victor Hugo, severely reprimanded the crimes committed by the British and French forces in the Old Summer Palace, expressing the venerable sense of justice and openness of this literary giant. The letter reads:

One day, two robbers broke into the summer palace, one robbed it, and the other burned it. It turns out that victory is a plunder. The victors stole all the wealth of the summer palace and then divided the spoils among themselves.

All these things are done in the name of Elgin. This reminds one of the Parthenon.

They had brought the Parthenon to the summer palace, but this time they did it more simply and thoroughly, sweeping it away, leaving nothing behind. Even if all the treasures of all the churches in our country are taken together, they cannot be compared with this grand and magnificent Oriental Museum.

The Oriental Museum houses not only outstanding works of art, but also a wide range of gold and silver products. That's a great deal of work and a lot of extra money! One of the victors had one bag full of pockets, and the other one filled several chests.

After that, they held hands and returned to Europe. This is the experience of these two robbers.

Let me prove for the time being that these two marauders were responsible for this robbery. Your Excellency, you now finally know that I have a full understanding of the matter of this military expedition to China.

The two robbers who will be punished by history, one is called France, and the other is called England. It represents the voice of millions of honest people.

While the Old Summer Palace was still burning, Prince Gong Yixin, who was ordered to stay in Beijing, promised all the conditions of the invaders. Soon after, the text of the Treaty of Tientsin was exchanged with Britain, France, and Russia, and the Treaty of Beijing was signed.

The great writer Victor Hugo once said: "Two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace, one was England and the other was France." ”

It expresses Hugo's anger and sigh at the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, a gathering place of ancient Chinese treasures, which was destroyed in one fell swoop, and the great powers brought not only material destruction, but also spiritual and cultural destruction.

Somewhere on Earth, there was once a wonder of the world, and its name was the Old Summer Palace. Art has two principles: the idea and the dream.

Ideas give rise to Western art, and dreams give rise to Eastern art. Just as Barthenon is the representative of conceptual art, the Old Summer Palace is the representative of dream art. It brings together the work of a people, almost entirely of the imagination of mankind.

Unlike Barthenon, the Old Summer Palace is not only a one-of-a-kind, one-of-a-kind masterpiece, but also a sublime example of dreamlike art – if fantasy can be a model at all. You can imagine a fairyland-like building that you can't describe in words, and that's the Old Summer Palace.

1. Hugo's famous quote in "The Destruction of the Old Summer Palace":

Only when we are strong can we safeguard the dignity of a nation and a country.

Falling to pieces is nothing.

As long as you can stand up bravely again and work hard.

2. Hugo was saddened by the disappearance of the Old Summer Palace; Hugo was indignant, Hugo was indignant at the destruction of the treasures of Oriental civilization; Hugo.

Hugo condemned the barbarism of the Anglo-French forces; Hugo spoke out and praised the Old Summer Palace as unparalleled in the history of human civilization.

artistic value.