What does the Old Summer Palace look like, and what does the Old Summer Palace look like now?

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.

The Royal Garden, the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

The current Old Summer Palace is a ruined wall.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial court was corrupt. In addition, the West has begun modern civilization, and the gap between the East and the West has widened to the point where it cannot be made up by manpower. In the Second Opium War in 1860, the British and French forces fought all the way to Beijing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, and burned down the Old Summer Palace, the royal garden at that time.

Countless treasures were plundered by the invaders, and the rest were reduced to ruins.

It's basically a ruin, but it's also a testimony to that period of history.

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The Old Summer Palace is located in the western suburbs of Beijing, east of Haidian District. It was originally a large royal garden in the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of about 5,200 acres, with an inverted character layout and the Old Summer Palace consisting of three gardens, namely Yuanming, Changchun and Qichun, with a total area of 350 hectares.

Its land floor area is as large as the Forbidden City, and its water area is equal to a Summer Palace. The Old Summer Palace brought together the characteristics of several famous gardens in the south of the Yangtze River at that time, integrating the essence of ancient Chinese gardening art, and using the artistic techniques of the garden in the garden.

Melt poetry and painting into a kaleidoscopic landscape. The southern part of the Old Summer Palace is the imperial court area, which is the place where the emperor handles official business. The rest of the area is distributed with 40 scenic spots, of which more than 50 scenic spots directly imitate the famous gardens and scenic spots in other places.

For example, the ten views of West Lake in Hangzhou not only imitate the architecture, but also copy the name. What's more interesting is that there are also Western-style garden scenic spots in the Old Summer Palace. The most famous "water viewing method" is a Western fountain, as well as a maze of thousands of flowers and a Western building.

All have the style of the Italian Renaissance. There is also a model of the city of Venice in the lake, and the emperor can enjoy the "scenery of the water city" thousands of miles away from sitting on the hill on the shore.

The Old Summer Palace is a treasure hall that contains rare cultural relics such as calligraphy and paintings of celebrities, secret classics, bell and ding treasures, gold and silver jewelry, etc., which concentrates the essence of ancient culture. The Old Summer Palace is also a garden of exotic trees and flowers, with millions of precious flowers and trees.

Westerners who have witnessed the Old Summer Palace in its entirety call it the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". Indeed, if it is still the same today as it was 140 years ago, this super-giant garden is a well-deserved "king of the world's gardens".

Unfortunately, in 1860, the British and French troops sacked the Old Summer Palace, the buildings in the garden were burned, the cultural relics were looted, and the miraculous and mythical Old Summer Palace became a ruin, leaving only the ruins and ruins for visitors to pay their respects.

Additional information: The Old Summer Palace was looted and burned down by British and French forces in 1860. On October 6, 1860, the British and French forces attacked Deshengmen and Andingmen in Beijing, and the soldiers of the Seng Lingqin and Ruilin troops retreated to the area of the Old Summer Palace, and the British and French troops pursued them to the Old Summer Palace.

The officers and soldiers guarding the garden were outnumbered and defeated. The French army first looted, and the British commander Grant gave the British permission to enter the park. Coalition soldiers plundered the treasures and furnishings in the garden. Based on UK** post-mortem estimates.

The looted treasures (gold, silver, precious stones, silks, antiques, etc.) were worth as much as 6 million pounds, as were rare books, stupas, porcelain, furniture, etc., which were destroyed because they were not known to be of value or because they were inconvenient to carry.

The French writer Victor Hugo once wrote: "One day, two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace, one robbed and the other set fire to it.

One filled the boxes and returned to Europe arm-in-arm, grinning. This is the experience of the two robbers......These two robbers, one named France and the other England. ”