In 1873, at the British Fubi auction, the photos before the burning of the Yuanmingyuan were openly auctioned, the starting price was 200,000 pounds, equivalent to 1.7 million yuan, these photos were taken by the reporters accompanying the British army, they captured the last appearance of the Yuanmingyuan before it was burned, seeing these photos, Our netizens have sighed, so beautiful and unparalleled yuanmingyuan was looted by two robbers, set fire to it, how people do not feel heartache.
When the Anglo-French coalition army invaded Beijing, the Xianfeng Emperor immediately abandoned the city and fled, resulting in the fall of the Yuanmingyuan, which contained countless rare treasures were all brought back to their own country by these bandits, it is said that the British and French allied forces pulled more than a dozen trains to transport all these national treasures of our country, but after the robbery, they still refused to let go of the Yuanmingyuan, especially the British army was determined to burn down this royal garden to retaliate against the rulers of the Qing Dynasty, and the Yuanmingyuan no longer existed in the world.
In fact, the reporters accompanying the British army took a large number of photos before the Yuanmingyuan was burned, but many of them were burned by the British army, because they wanted to destroy the evidence of the crime and did not want the world to know their crimes, so now there are few photos left before the Yuanmingyuan was burned, and the others are the photos restored by experts using high technology for the Yuanmingyuan, and now we can only appreciate the peak of China's ancient garden skills across the screen.
Now the Yuanmingyuan ruins have set up a protective park, experts and staff are still on the site of restoration, now has excavated more than 50,000 cultural relics, but the Yuanmingyuan certainly can not be restored, now we can only feel the traces of history on the ruins, backward will be beaten, if it is not the Qing government is corrupt and incompetent, the rulers are greedy and afraid of death, how can our country's treasures all be lost overseas, the Yuanmingyuan is not only the eternal pain of the Chinese people, but also let us always remember this lesson.