Why did the Eight Nations burn the Old Summer Palace, was the Old Summer Palace burned by the Eight

Because the eight countries themselves did not have such beautiful buildings, they were very jealous, and they didn't want other countries to have them, so they burned them

It was the two robbers of the British and French forces who burned down the Old Summer Palace in order to get the treasures of the garden and to cover up their crimes.

The destruction of the Old Summer Palace at the hands of the British and French forces was a matter of the Second Opium War, and the Eight-Nation Alliance entered Beijing in 1900, a difference of more than 30 years

The logic of the robbers is that if they don't burn it after the robbery, they can't cover the mouths of the world, for details, please see the "Three Light Policy" during the Chinese War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the burning of the Old Summer Palace by the Eight-Nation Alliance

The Old Summer Palace was not burned by the Eight-Nation Alliance, but was burned down by the British and French forces in 1860. The Old Summer Palace is a large imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty in China, located in Beijing, consisting of the Old Summer Palace and its attached gardens, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden (later renamed Wanchun Garden), known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

The Old Summer Palace was founded in 1707 (the forty-sixth year of Kangxi), covers an area of square kilometers, with a construction area of 200,000 square meters, with more than 150 scenes, and was originally given by Emperor Kangxi to the fourth son of the emperor Yinzhen. Kangxi inscribed the plaque "Yuanmingyuan", and "Yuanming" is the Yongzheng law. 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.

On October 6, 1860, British and French forces burned the Old Summer Palace. Emperor Tongzhi wanted to repair it, but was forced to stop due to financial difficulties. After the Eight-Nation Alliance, the Old Summer Palace was destroyed by warlords and bandits, and finally fell into ruins.

Afterwards, according to the investigation of the Qing Dynasty, some buildings of Qingyi Garden in Wanshou Mountain, Jingyi Garden in Xiangshan and Jingmingyuan in Yuquan Mountain were burned down. The Old Summer Palace and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingmingyuan, Jingyi Garden, Changchun Garden and Haidian Town were all burned.

Historically, the invading armies burned the Old Summer Palace twice. The first burning of the Old Summer Palace was in the tenth year of Xianfeng in the Qing Dynasty (1860), when the British and French troops invaded Beijing. The British and French forces burned, looted, barbarously looted, and burned down the world-famous Old Summer Palace, and most of the temple buildings in the park were destroyed by fire.

The second burning of the Old Summer Palace was in the 26th year of Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty (1900), when the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing and set fire to the Old Summer Palace again, so that the remaining 13 royal palace buildings here were plundered and burned.

In my opinion, there is a reason why the Eight-Nation Coalition chose to burn down the Old Summer Palace instead of the Forbidden City. First of all, there is an essential difference between the Forbidden City and the Old Summer Palace, and the burning of the Old Summer Palace is not an accident, but an inevitability. Let me now share my own views on this issue.

1. The Old Summer Palace is a place of royal entertainment, while the Forbidden City is the foundation of a dynasty.

Although both the Old Summer Palace and the Forbidden City represent the imperial power of the Qing Dynasty, in fact there is a big difference between the two. The Old Summer Palace was just a place for the nobles of the imperial palace to have fun, while the Forbidden City was the place where the Qing emperors worked. After burning the Old Summer Palace, the Qing Dynasty could still operate normallyIf the Forbidden City was burned, then the Qing Dynasty would lose not only face, but also the order of the court.

For the Eight-Nation Alliance, they only wanted to give the Qing Dynasty a disadvantage, not to paralyze the Qing Dynasty. After all, these demons only want the Qing Dynasty to be their puppet, not to let the Qing Dynasty perish. If the Qing court's court was paralyzed, the Eight-Nation Coalition would have no way to reap the benefits of the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, they chose to burn the Old Summer Palace instead of the Forbidden City.

2. The value of the Old Summer Palace is higher.

The purpose of the Eight-Nation Alliance's coming to China was to grab money, and if there were the most treasures in China in that era, it would be the Old Summer Palace. As a royal garden, the Old Summer Palace contains countless treasures. Although there are many treasures in the Forbidden City, they are still not as good as the number of treasures in the Old Summer Palace.

From this point on, the Eight-Nation Coalition is more willing to grab a rich placeTherefore, the Old Summer Palace became their first choice, and the Forbidden City escaped.

Because the Old Summer Palace is a private leisure and entertainment place for the royal family, burning the Old Summer Palace means a warning to the royal family, so that they will be obedient and not resist in the future.

The Forbidden City is the imperial palace, the symbol of the regime, and the place of office, and burning the Forbidden City means making the regime inoperable. It doesn't do them any good.

The great powers do not actually have the strength to rule the whole of China, and they need an obedient puppet regime as a tool to rule China. And the Qing ** is huge, systematic, powerful, and vulnerable, and this weak regime that is strong on the outside and strong on the inside, is their most ideal tool of rule. In addition to the Qing **, there is no other organization that is both obedient and powerful, so for the great powers, it is best to retain the power of the Qing **, then burning the Old Summer Palace and keeping the Forbidden City is a reasonable choice.

Therefore, the British and French troops looted and burned the Old Summer Palace, but ordered the Forbidden City to be protected; The Eight-Nation Coalition burned the Old Summer Palace again, but did not burn the Forbidden City.