Who burned down the Old Summer Palace? Who burned down the Old Summer Palace?

Anglo-French forces. In the Second Opium War, the British and French forces invaded Beibei and Beijing, looted the Old Summer Palace and set it on fire. The great French writer Victor Hugo condemned this: two robbers, one named France and the other England.

Speaking of the Eight-Nation Alliance, I didn't learn history well, and it seems that I didn't learn the language well.

The Old Summer Palace was burned down by the British and French forces in 1860, and the number of looted cultural relics is roughly estimated to be about 1.5 million, ranging from bronze ritual vessels of the pre-Qin era to famous calligraphy and paintings of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and various rare treasures.

The Eight-Nation Alliance burned the Old Summer Palace.

According to the records of historical books and authoritative reference books such as "Qing Tongjian", "Dictionary of Chinese History", and "Chronology of Major Events in Chinese History", the "burning of the Old Summer Palace" occurred during the Second Opium War (

1856-1860。, the culprit was the invading army formed by the British and French.

In 1860, during the Second Opium War, the British and French forces burned it. In order to cover up the crime, the British army commander, James Bruce, the 8th Earl of Elgin.

It should be the "Anglo-French coalition", and the invasion of China by the Eight-Nation Coalition was decades later.

It was the bandits of Britain and France.

In fact, the Eight-Nation Coalition and the Anglo-French Coalition were burned. The complete destruction of the Old Summer Palace was carried out in two parts.

The Old Summer Palace was burned by the British and French forces, and the British and French forces invaded during the Second Opium War, and in order to fight the Qing Dynasty, the Old Summer Palace was burned.

The Old Summer Palace is a garden built by the Qing Dynasty emperors. There's a lot of uh curiosities in it. At that time, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China.

Crazy robbery of China's treasures. The Old Summer Palace also suffered from it, so it was the soldiers of the Eight-Nation Alliance who burned the Old Summer Palace. Imperialism, so to speak.

The Old Summer Palace was burned by the British and French forces, and the Eight-Nation Alliance Army burned and looted after entering the city of Beijing.

After the Anglo-French army defeated the Qing Dynasty, they burned and looted everywhere in Beijing, robbing many of our country's national treasures, and also burned down the Old Summer Palace.

It was burned by the British and French forces, and everyone should not forget their motherland.

The Eight-Nation Alliance! There are two times in history, in 1860 it was the British army; The year 1900 is unknown, but they are all anyway.

Britain and France, there is no record in history that the Old Summer Palace was burned, only the British and French alliances.

The Old Summer Palace was invaded by the British and French forces, and China burned down.

The Eight-Nation Alliance, not an individual.

The Old Summer Palace is located in the northwest suburbs of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, composed of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden, the hand-sold Wanchun Garden, also called the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty, is one of the famous royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty, with an area of more than 5,200 acres and a construction area of 160,000 square meters, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens, the Qing Dynasty emperor will come here to deal with government affairs every midsummer, so it is also called "Summer Garden".

The Old Summer Palace was built in 1709 (the forty-eighth year of Kangxi) is a garden given by Kangxi to Yongzheng, who has not yet succeeded to the throne, to pass the time, there is such a clip in the TV series "Kangxi Dynasty", Emperor Kangxi finally found that Qianlong was very smart, so he silently began to pay attention to Yongzheng, and it was also at that time that Kangxi intended to pass the throne to Yongzheng, and this story happened in the Old Summer Palace.

After Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, he added the Zhengda Guangming Palace, the Qinzheng Hall and the storage room of the military aircraft department of the six departments of the cabinet to avoid the noise and listen to the government. During the Qianlong period, some parts were added and reconstructed, and the Changchun Garden was newly built in the east, and the Wanchun Garden was merged into the southeast neighborhood, and the pattern of the three gardens of the Yuan Ming Dynasty was formed. During the Jiaqing Dynasty, the Spring Garden was repaired and expanded.

During the Daoguang period, the national strength gradually declined, the financial resources were insufficient, the Daoguang Emperor removed the furnishings of Wanshou, Xiangshan and Yuquan, and the summer resort and Mulan hunting in the Rehe River, but still rebuilt the three gardens of the Yuanming Dynasty.

In 1860, it was burned by the British and French forces, and the cultural relics were plundered by rough statistics, there were 1.5 million pieces, up to the bronze ritual vessels of the pre-Qin era, down to the famous calligraphy and paintings of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties and various rare treasures, in 1900 they were robbed by the Eight-Nation Coalition again, and during the Anti-Japanese War, they suffered from different degrees of high and early damage, and finally suffered damage during the cultural revolution. The 12 zodiac signs in Jackie Chan's movie "Zodiac" are from the Old Summer Palace.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, it was gradually protected and opened to the outside world in 1988!

To sum up: from the establishment to the looting, it has experienced Kangxi, Yongzheng, and Qianlong. Jiaqing, Daoguang, Tongzhi, Guangxu, Xuantong eight emperors. It can be said that the Old Summer Palace witnessed the prosperity and decline of the Qing Dynasty.