History has its own life, it is like a person, both easy-going and self-respecting. ——Yu Qiuyu
(Note: This is a collection of old photographs of the city of Beijing in 1860, when the Old Summer Palace had not yet been burned down by the British and French forces, and this set of photographs is extremely precious.) The picture shows the view of Beijing from Andingmen
Qingyi Garden Wanshou Mountain Flower Chengge Duobao Glass Pagoda. In 1860, Qingyi Garden was destroyed by the British and French forces. Later, Empress Dowager Ye He embezzled 20 million taels of silver from the naval construction to restore the garden, and when the restoration was completed in the fourteenth year of Guangxu, it basically maintained the pattern of the original Qingyi Garden and was renamed the Summer Palace.
The Noon Gate of the Forbidden City. The gate is the main gate of the Forbidden City, centered towards the sun, and is located as a meridian, so it is called the noon gate. There is an end gate in front of the noon gate, and the north side is the Taihe Gate. The plane of the Noon gate is "concave", which inherits the formal basis of the Northern Wei Luoyang Gate and the Tang Dynasty Luoyang Yingtian Gate, and evolved from the Han Dynasty Gate.
Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain in Qingyi Garden. What is less well known is that the name of Qingyi Garden comes from the turquoise water state of Kunming Lake. The combination of Kunming Lake and Wanshou Mountain also makes Qingyi Garden the most beautiful royal garden.
In the Temple of Heaven Prayer Hall in Beijing, it is obvious that the steps are overgrown with weeds. Originally a rectangular hall, used to worship heaven and earth, the Hall of Prayer was originally built in the eighteenth year of Ming Yongle, and jiajing was rebuilt into a triple-roofed round hall in the twenty-fourth year of Jiajing, named "Great Enjoyment Hall", the roof of the hall is covered with blue, medium yellow and lower green three-color glass, which means heaven, earth and all things.
Overlooking the White Pagoda of Qiongdao Island in the North Sea. The White Pagoda was built in the eighth year of Qing Shunzhi, in the form of a Tibetan-style lama pagoda, the gourd treasure bottle-shaped pagoda is all white, the upper two floors have a copper umbrella cover, and the top is a gilded jewel pagoda brake, and the tower stands on top of the corner-shaped Sumire Pagoda.
The majestic ancient city wall of Beijing. The ancient city wall of Beijing was built in the Yuan Dynasty, built in the Ming Dynasty, and used in the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, and was once extremely spectacular.
Wenchang Pavilion of Qingyi Garden, originally a city pass, is one of the gates of Qingyi Garden. The photo was reportedly taken off for £200,000.
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