Was Yuan Mingyuan destroyed by the British and French forces? 15

The Old Summer Palace is also a large royal museum with many treasures, books and masterpieces of art.

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. In order to force the Qing Dynasty to accept the terms of peace as soon as possible, the British Minister Elgin and the British Army Commander Grant ordered Lieutenant General Michelle to lead the invading army of more than 3,500 people to the Old Summer Palace on October 18 and set it on fire.

The fire, which lasted for two days and two nights, burned the Old Summer Palace to ruins.

During the Tongzhi period (1862-1874), the Tongzhi Emperor prepared to restore the Old Summer Palace for the Empress Dowager Cixi to live in. Later, due to financial difficulties, it was forced to stop and rebuild other buildings. In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, and the Old Summer Palace was once again destroyed.

After the fall of the Qing Dynasty, some warlords, politicians, and bureaucrats smuggled building materials from the Old Summer Palace, and the ruins of the Old Summer Palace were further damaged.

Depressed! Who said the Eight-Nation Alliance, I'm in a hurry with him!

It's the Anglo-French army!

The catastrophe of the Old Summer Palace originated from the burning and plundering of the British and French forces during the Second Opium War. But that's not all. Since then, the Yuanmingyuan has been gradually abandoned, which is related to the plundering of foreign capitalism and the destruction of the Chinese.

Yes, as if I heard that Victor Hugo of France once described it this way: There were two robbers who stole the richest things in the East, one of them was called France, the other was called England!

It's the Anglo-French coalition, don't say it's the Eight-Nation Alliance, the history course of the first year of high school, read more books if you have time, don't let your national treasure be robbed and don't know who did it.

If you have time to watch the new documentary "Old Summer Palace", which tells the process of the construction and destruction of the Old Summer Palace in great detail.

When the Eight-Nation Coalition entered Beijing, it was mainly plundered and burned by the two powerful countries of Britain and France! Hate! Vicious! Hate!

At that time, the Eight-Nation Alliance was very powerful and burned down the Old Summer Palace!!

It's too much, why doesn't anyone care!

Let them accompany.

Are we Chinese not responsible?

Anglo-French coalition, not the Eight-Nation Alliance.

I want to say: your fire has burned down the treasures of garden art; This fire burned the essence of architectural art: this fire burned down the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, which cost 530 million taels and took 151 years to build.

However, this fire could not destroy the heinous crimes of the British and French forces, the bitter hatred of the descendants of Yan and Huang, and still less the indomitable spirit of the Chinese nation of unremitting self-improvement and perseverance. The ruins of the Old Summer Palace remind us all the time: backwardness - we will be beaten!

We will study hard and never let the tragedy happen again!

It does not matter. The Old Summer Palace was destroyed by the United States, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, etc., when countries invaded our country.

One day without preparation, these robbers forcibly robbed the Old Summer Palace of various treasures, rare treasures. For the first time, they walked in empty-handed, but they returned with a full load.

On October 6, 1860, the British and French troops invaded Beijing and broke into the Old Summer Palace. They plundered everything in the garden that could be taken away. and if he could not carry it, he carried it in carts or animals; If you really can't get it away, you will destroy and destroy it at will.

In order to destroy the evidence of the crime, on October 18 and 19, more than 3,000 invaders were ordered to set fire to the park. The fire burned for three days and three nights, and the smoke cloud enveloped the entire city of Beijing. The treasure of China's garden art and the essence of architectural art have been reduced to ashes.