What does the Old Summer Palace tell us when it was burned down by the British and French forces? 5

A generation of famous gardens Yuanmingyuan.

Destroyed. It was destroyed at the hands of the British and French invaders, and it was also destroyed by the Qing Dynasty.

of corruption and incompetence. Its destruction is not only a testimony to the barbaric destruction of human culture by the Western invaders, but also a proof that the ancient civilization will be beaten even if it is backward. We are the Chinese nation.

We don't want to bully other peoples, but we will never allow others to bully us. In order to make the tragedy of the Old Summer Palace a thing of the past forever. In order to make China no longer fall behind and no longer be oppressed by foreign countries, I will now assiduously study scientific knowledge and let the national flag dyed with the blood of the martyrs fly high in the sky and never hang down.

At that time, Gong Zizhen's son led the way, and the coalition army destroyed the garden of ten thousand gardens. Its practical significance is to tell us that if you don't learn and don't develop, you will have to pay a price. History can be turned, and the page of shame must be remembered from time to time, inspiring us to keep improving.

In fact, it is mainly burned by the Chinese themselves... Convenient for robbery.

Tell us to use our wealth for real estate.

It won't last long to build the most glorious palace in the country.

The strength of the country must still be built on the basis of industry, science and technology and national defense.

Good things can't be put in one place.

After being bullied, the weak are unable to resist and are slaughtered by others. So be sure to be a strong one.

Tell us that France is guilty of the same crimes as the brutality, cruelty and robbership of England; He also tells us that if we fall behind others, then we will be insulted and despised by others!! If you think it's good, give it points!! o(∩_o~

Tell us never to believe in the so-called "civilization" and "humanity" of the West!

Because after the British minister Ergin and the British commander Grant saw the hostages and corpses, they thought that only the destruction of the Old Summer Palace could deal a great blow to the Chinese emperor. Therefore, they regarded the splendid imperial gardens as the private property of the Chinese emperor, and became the object of revenge and personal anger of the coalition forces.

The British and French invaded China to launch the Second Opium War. In October 1856 (the sixth year of Xianfeng), the British took advantage"The Yarrow is a royal piece of honor"Provoked the Second Opium War. In March 1857, Britain** appointed Ergin, the former Governor General of Canada, as plenipotentiary, and France** appointed Baron Gro as plenipotentiary envoy to lead troops to China.

In December, the coalition forces gathered at the mouth of the Pearl River, with a total of more than 5,600 people, including 1,000 French troops and more than 4,600 British troops; **More than 20 ships, occupied Guangzhou, established the Allied Forces Committee and imposed colonial rule on Guangzhou. In 1858, the allied forces invaded the suburbs of Tianjin, forcing the Qing Dynasty to withdraw south after signing the Treaty of Tianjin. The following year, during the exchange of ratifications of the Treaty of Tianjin, the British minister Pruss and the French minister Bourblon put together a combined fleet to come to Tianjin Haikou again, with a total of more than 2,000 soldiers and more than 20 ships of various kinds, and returned defeated.

In 1860, Britain and France expanded the war suspicions, reappointed Ergin and Gro as plenipotentiary envoys, and appointed Clinton and Meng Douban as the commanders-in-chief of the two countries' invasion of China, leading more than 18,000 British troops, more than 7,000 French troops, 73 British ships, and 32 French ships, gathered in the Chinese sea. On August 24, they occupied Tianjin, and on October 13, they occupied Beijing, and the invading army burned, killed, looted, and committed heinous crimes. The burning of the famous imperial garden, the Old Summer Palace, caused a huge loss of Chinese culture.

Withdrew from Beijing in early November. In October 1861, China withdrew from Canton after paying all the military reparations to Britain and France under the Treaty of Peking.

From a cultural point of view, the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was an unprecedented tragedy in the history of human civilization. Judging from the course of history, this tragic disaster of backwardness and beating shocked the knowledgeable Chinese.

After the catastrophe of the Old Summer Palace, the Westernization Movement appeared, and the tragedy led to national awakening and progress. In 1861, the year after the disaster, the Westernization Movement to learn and introduce advanced foreign technology began to be established, but due to many obstacles, the country"Self-improvement"The goal has not been achieved for a long time, and the Old Summer Palace itself, as well as the whole of Beijing and the whole of China, continues to suffer. Qingyan.

The Old Summer Palace is a large royal garden in the Qing Dynasty, which was built in 1707, that is, in the 46th year of Kangxi, in 1860, the British and French troops sacked the Old Summer Palace and burned it. The Old Summer Palace existed for a total of 153 years, and every emperor of the Qing Dynasty would expand the Old Summer Palace or add some treasures to the Old Summer Palace. Therefore, by the time of destruction, the construction area of the Old Summer Palace had reached 200,000 square meters, with more than 150 scenes, and at least more than 1.5 million treasures in the garden.

So what damage did the Old Summer Palace suffer? In fact, the Old Summer Palace was completely destroyed, a fire burned for three days and three nights, and in the end all that was left was a ruin. In fact, after the British and French forces burned down the Old Summer Palace, the Tongzhi Emperor also wanted to restore the Old Summer Palace, but because of the financial constraints, the repair silver was stopped a few days later.

So how much damage did the British and French forces loot and burn the Old Summer Palace at that time, and caused China more? First of all, the Old Summer Palace was founded and operated by the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years, and its scale is very large, even not losing to the Forbidden City, which is not only the painstaking efforts of several generations of emperors, but also a museum of treasures all over China. But in the end, they were all snatched away by the British and French forces, and according to Kuanbo, many soldiers of the British and French forces at that time, after snatching these treasures from China, returned to China and became rich directly.

In this regard, many experts have also done special research, after the burning of the Old Summer Palace, the loss of the house alone is as high as 6 million taels**, of course, this does not include the treasures in the Old Summer Palace. Because many of the treasures in the Old Summer Palace are priceless, they can't be measured by money at all. At present, these treasures are scattered all over the world, some are collected by wealthy Western merchants, and some may be in museums.

All in all, it's impossible to recover these things, at least for now. It is understood that among these lost treasures, there are bronzes from the Western Zhou Dynasty, porcelain vases from various dynasties, and various celebrity calligraphy and paintings. Especially during the period of Emperor Qianlong, because Qianlong was particularly fond of celebrity calligraphy and painting, he hid a lot of calligraphy and painting in the Old Summer Palace at that time.

I didn't expect these precious cultural relics to eventually fall into the hands of the Western powers, and what is even more hateful is that the Western powers directly smashed some cultural relics that could not be taken away, and finally set fire to the Old Summer Palace.