If the British and French forces hadn t burned down the Old Summer Palace, what would the Old Summer

The Old Summer Palace is located in Haidian, a western suburb of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. It was founded in the 46th year of Kangxi (1707) and consists of three gardens: Yuanming, Changchun and Qichun. There are more than 100 garden landscapes, with a construction area of more than 160,000 square meters, which is a large royal palace created and operated by the Qing Dynasty emperor for more than 150 years.

The Qing Dynasty poured the material resources of the whole country, gathered countless fine craftsmen, filled the lakes and mountains, planted strange flowers and trees, collected 40 scenic spots at home and abroad, built 145 large buildings, and collected countless art treasures and books and cultural relics. Among these buildings, in addition to the Chinese-style courtyard, there are also Western-style buildings such as Haiyan Hall and Yuanying Temple in Changchun Garden, which is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". In 1900, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded Beijing, burned and plundered, and the Empress Dowager Cixi fled to Xi'an with Emperor Guangxu.

Subsequently, the relics of the Old Summer Palace were seized by bureaucrats, warlords, and profiteers for a long time, and even destroyed in an organized manner by the authorities. The magnates of Beiyang**, including some of those who are responsible for the protection of the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, all rely on their power and have taken away stone carvings and Taihu stones from the Old Summer Palace to repair their garden houses. The invaders not only robbed the precious historical artifact, but also ruthlessly reduced it to ashes.

Covering an area of 350 hectares (more than 5,200 acres), of which the water surface area is about 140 hectares (2,100 acres), the land construction area of the Old Summer Palace is more than 10,000 square meters than the Forbidden City, and the water area is equal to a Summer Palace, and the total area is equal to the Forbidden City!

It inherits China's excellent gardening tradition of more than 3,000 years, not only has the grace and luxury of the palace building, but also has the euphemism and variety of the garden garden in the south of the Yangtze River, and at the same time, it absorbs the European garden architecture form, integrates different styles of garden architecture, and makes people feel harmonious and perfect in the overall layout. It's really true:"Although it is made by people, it is like being opened by heaven"。

The Old Summer Palace is not only famous for its gardens, but it is also a royal museum with a rich collection. The great French writer Victor Hugo once said:"Even if all the treasures of Notre-Dame de Notre-Dame in our country are taken together, they cannot be compared with this grand and magnificent Oriental Museum"。

The halls in the park are decorated with countless rosewood furniture, and there are many rare cultural relics at home and abroad. The Chinese Yuan Pavilion is one of the four major royal library buildings in China. There are precious books and cultural relics such as "Four Libraries of Books", "Collection of Ancient and Modern Books", and "Collection of Four Libraries" in various places in the park.

The Old Summer Palace was once famous for its grand regional scale, outstanding construction skills, exquisite architectural scenery, rich cultural collection and profound national cultural connotation, and was known as "the model of all gardening arts" and "the garden of ten thousand gardens".

On October 6, 1860, the British and French troops ransacked the Old Summer Palace, the cultural relics were looted, and the buildings in the garden were burned down from the 18th to the 19th. So far, the miraculous and mythical Old Summer Palace has become a ruin, and only the ruins and ruins remain for visitors to pay their respects to.

Like the Temple of Heaven and the Forbidden City, it has become a museum.

No one knows what it looks like, and the people who have been there are no longer in this world.

If they hadn't burned down the Old Summer Palace, it would have been incredibly beautiful by now!! Like a fabulous wonderland.

It still won't exist, because it is destined to be destroyed in history.

Because of its luxury, because of its beauty, and because of the greedy eyes that stare at it!

Ha ha. If it hadn't been burned, the current Old Summer Palace would definitely be priceless.

Then we in China will be richer than the United States haha.

There are tens of millions of treasures in it.

Let's say there are 500 treasures in it.

Hahahaha

It was burned down by the British and French forces in 1860.

There are countless treasures.

How many treasures the British and French invaders robbed of the Old Summer Palace can never be said because the furnishings in the garden and the accounts were all looted. The following information may be used to get a glimpse of the leopard.

Qing historical materials show that there were only 441 pieces of European clocks and watches of all sizes displayed and stored in the Old Summer Palace at that time, and only one large clock survived the disaster.

After the fact, 1,197 pieces of lost objects that had been snatched by bandits and "abandoned by the invading army" were seized, which was at best only one-half of the objects in the park.

According to a newsletter in The Times at the time, "it is estimated that the total value of the looted and destroyed property is more than £6 million".

In fact, a large part of the objects that were snatched and damaged by the British and French invading forces were priceless. This heinous crime of destroying human culture is truly heinous!