The Yuanmingyuan of the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens can be said to be the most regrettable building in history, which was burned for three days and three nights by a fire by the British and French allies. In 1860, the Qing government was corrupt, was greatly destroyed, was invaded by the British and French allies, and on the grounds that the Yuanmingyuan had British soldiers, forcibly invaded the Yuanmingyuan, when they saw the treasures inside, they immediately looted the place, took all that could be taken away, and directly destroyed what could not be taken away.
Now, all we see is the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan, a fire that burned in the Yuanmingyuan for three days and three nights, and since then, the Yuanmingyuan has ceased to exist. We have no chance to see its original appearance, and if we want to understand it, we can only understand how spectacular and magnificent the original art model was through historical records and going to the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan.
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, after the closure of the country, China was already on the decline, coupled with Cixi's administration, privately embezzled two military silver for their own birthdays, which made the road downhill faster and faster, accelerating the speed of the qing dynasty's demise. When the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, we failed, had to sign unequal treaties, and many territories were ceded to other countries, and the Yuanmingyuan at this time was also discovered and targeted by the invaders.
After a long period of planning, they finally found a lame excuse and waited for the opportunity to move into the Yuanmingyuan, which was not long after its completion, and during the period also consumed huge manpower and material resources, but in the end failed to escape the greedy people's hearts. They not only took away the treasure, but also burned it, and the thought of it always aroused the heartache resonance of the Chinese people.
At that time, the Qing Dynasty was very culturally inclusive, and the architectural design of the Yuanmingyuan was also involved by foreigners. Therefore, the model it adopts is a combination of Chinese and Western architectural forms, including our original Chinese architectural characteristics, but also added Western characteristics, the combination of the two, and by the expansion and continuous repair of many generations of emperors to complete, but also the impact art of wooden buildings and stone buildings.
And in the face of such a magnificent and magnificent building, there will always be people who will lose their humanity because of their interests, no one can resist the temptation inside, they frantically rob treasures, kill all the rebels, with the attitude that they can't get what they can't get, others can't get it, burn down the Yuanmingyuan fiercely, and don't want it to be occupied by others.
Every summer, the emperors of the past will bring official documents to the Yuanmingyuan office to escape the summer, the scenery in the garden is pleasing to the eye, and it is not too much to compare it with the Fairy Moon Palace. The Yuanmingyuan was also full of precious treasures collected from all over the world, but no matter how spectacular and magnificent it was, it could not escape the invaders in the end.
For the invaders, it is not their own things that do not have to be cherished, but for the Yuanmingyuan, which is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", it is burned down, which is a regret for the whole world, and many people want to see it as it is. Because the Yuanmingyuan is a building where China and the West merge, the characteristic of China is to build a building with a wooden structure, and the wood material is easily burned out by fire, so the Yuanmingyuan we see now is only left with boulders with Western characteristics.
One of the wonders of historical architecture, the Yuanmingyuan, was burned down, which is the pain of people all over the world, but later, the photos of the group before the burning of the Yuanmingyuan appeared at the auction in the United Kingdom, and this group of photos was exposed, and everyone sighed after seeing it: It is beautiful enough to be a screensaver, and the scenery here is really too beautiful.
The reason why the word miracle is called a miracle is because there will not be a second similar miracle, and the Yuanmingyuan is a typical example of this, and how much effort the architects have put into having such a great artistic model as the Yuanmingyuan. But history cannot be repeated, the Yuanmingyuan will never return to its former appearance, and it has become a pain in the hearts of Chinese people.