The Yuanmingyuan is a large-scale imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty, located in Haidian District, Beijing, People's Republic of China, consisting of the Yuanmingyuan and its annexes Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, so the Yuanmingyuan also has a nickname called the Yuanming Three Gardens.
The Yuanmingyuan is a famous classical treasure building in China, which was built in 1707, originally the Garden given by the Kangxi Emperor to the four sons of the Emperor, and personally inscribed as "Yuanmingyuan", this four princes are the later Yongzheng Emperor Yinchen. Yongzheng was very fond of the courtyard where he had lived, and even directly moved the office location and the sleeping palace to the Yuanmingyuan, which can be said that his time in the Yuanmingyuan was longer than that of the Forbidden City.
One is a beautiful scenery, rare treasures are everywhere in the garden, one is the oppressive imperial palace, everyone naturally prefers the Yuanmingyuan, so the emperors of the later Qing Dynasty are very fond of the Yuanmingyuan, constantly repairing and supplementing, the Yuanmingyuan displays more and more cultural relics, the scenery is more and more beautiful, the value is amazing, and it is famous overseas.
The Yuanmingyuan is not only the peak of China's royal gardens, known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", but also praised by the French literary artist Victor Hugo as "a model of oriental art." "But Pifu is innocent, he is guilty of his own sins, and the Yuanmingyuan is so famous that it has attracted not only the admiration of the people, but also the covetousness of those who have ill intentions."
After the British and French forces occupied Beijing, they invaded the Yuanmingyuan in one fell swoop, snatching away many precious cultural relics and smashing some large treasures that could not be taken away. Because the Qing government was incompetent at that time, let alone seek justice from them, even if they were afraid of escaping one step too late; the people were weak and weak, and there was no way to stop their atrocities.
After the British and French coalition forces completed the looting, a fire was set in the Yuanmingyuan, such a strange garden that condensed the sweat of the Chinese working people for hundreds of years and the historical and cultural treasures of China for thousands of years, and thus became a shocking ruin in a fire, but although the losses were heavy this time, after all, the Yuanmingyuan had a "deep foundation", and there were still many good things left.
The peak of the Yuanmingyuan During the reign of Cixi, Empress Dowager Cixi was known to be the culprit who single-handedly led to the demise of the Qing government, and she loved the Yuanmingyuan very much, and even embezzled the military expenses of the Beiyang Marine Division. In the Nagasaki Incident in 1886, Japan had a brief confrontation with the Beiyang Naval Division, and finally lost due to fear of the battleships of the Beiyang Naval Division.
This victory was worthy of affirmation at that time, but in the long run, it bred the arrogance of the Qing government, which was already in the situation of being opened by the Western powers, but immersed in the false victory of the Beiyang Marine Division crushing Japan, Cixi began to feel that the Beiyang Naval Division was already so strong anyway, and there was no need to spend a lot of military expenses to maintain, so she began to use the beiyang naval division's military expenses to build a garden every year.
Yes, you read that right, Cixi is so terrible, and it is estimated that she only did it with military funds to build gardens. Not only did she build a garden, she also continued to extravagantly extravagantly, and her 60th birthday was held in a field of people's unhappiness, and the degree of luxury did indeed reach the strength of the whole country to celebrate her birthday.
In 1894, the Sino-Japanese War broke out, and the Beiyang Marine Division, which had been encroached upon by the garden and occupied by the military, was naturally inferior to the angry And Strong Japanese Marine Division, and ushered in a tragic defeat. The defeat of the Sino-Japanese War made the European and American powers once again want to gain more benefits from the Qing government, so in 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, and the Yuanmingyuan was once again looted, this time finally completely destroyed.
After the Qing government was destroyed, the warlords of the Republic of China were in a scuffle, and the War of Resistance Against Japan broke out... One by one, one big thing after another makes people have no time to take care of the Yuanmingyuan. Until the founding of New China, the spring breeze of reform and opening up blew all over the ground, China's national strength became stronger and stronger, and the Chinese nation slowly stood tall among the nations of the world.
Now China has the strength to protect anything that belongs to it. Some people have asked whether we should consider rebuilding the Old Summer Palace, and this idea has caused great repercussions in society. The Yuanmingyuan was built to restore the former glory of the first garden in the East. Such an idea is good, but there are many drawbacks.
First of all, even with China's current economic situation, the manpower and material resources required to completely rebuild such a huge project as the Yuanmingyuan are very large. However, after its completion, the Yuanmingyuan did not have great economic value. In other words, you can only throw so much money in vain to raise a garden with only historical and cultural value. And it is also necessary to invest a lot of manpower and material resources to take care of the garden, in case the cultural relics inside are lost and damaged.
Therefore, the price paid and the return obtained are not proportional, from the perspective of economic value, it is obviously not cost-effective, so the State Administration of Cultural Heritage, in consultation with the Beijing Municipal Government, replied that the ruins of the ruins of the ruins warn future generations not to forget the national shame, the alarm bell is always ringing, the reconstruction of the Yuanmingyuan lacks the necessary archaeological and historical documentary basis, and will change the historical status quo of the Ruins of the Yuanmingyuan destroyed by the great powers, and its necessity and feasibility should be carefully demonstrated.
Some people may say that although the economic value of the Yuanmingyuan may not be high, it is also our precious cultural heritage? Do we have to consider economic value in everything we do? This sentence is not unreasonable, but now many cultural relics are displayed in special museums, if you want to rebuild the Yuanmingyuan, it is bound to relocate some cultural relics to the park. But what if Chinese is damaged during the migration process?
And speaking of cultural significance, I think the cultural significance of the Yuanmingyuan is more important to warn the Chinese nation not to forget the national shame, which is the best cultural language that those ruins and broken walls can tell us. Each culture has its own unique vehicle, and we can't look at things from a paranoid perspective. It is true that the reconstruction of the Old Summer Palace will satisfy our cultural appreciation, but correspondingly we will also lose a wake-up call.
Whenever I stand in front of those ruins and broken walls, a kind of heartache strikes my heart, which is the shame of the country and the shame of the Chinese nation. Those ruins are also telling us: don't forget the national shame, forge ahead, China's future will be more exciting!