Yuanmingyuan is a garden given by Kangxi to his fourth son Yin Chan in 1709, "Yuanmingyuan" is also named after Kangxi, the meaning of the word "Yuanming" is: God, the time of the gentleman is also in the middle; Ming and Puzhao, people also. Among them, it refers to the ideal standard of personal quality class, which Kangxi used to warn Yongzheng.
In the Second Opium War, the Anglo-French army went north after occupying Guangzhou and hit the city of Tianjin. The Qing government was also corrupt and backward to the extreme, and did not do its best to resist and only wanted to negotiate peace, so it allowed the invading army to come and sign a series of unequal treaties, and the Anglo-French coalition army burned and plundered in China, committing all kinds of evil and committing heinous crimes.
However, after looting the Yuanmingyuan, the British army was still not satisfied, so under the pretext of the Qing government's arrest of diplomatic envoys and inferior treatment of prisoners of war, they burned the Yuanmingyuan, and the real concept of burning the Yuanmingyuan refers to the burning of the Three Mountains and Five Gardens of the Royal Family in western Beijing, when the fire burned for three days and three nights, and the sky over the capital was filled with black smoke.
Luckily, before the destruction of the Old Summer Palace, an Englishman took a photo, and although it was black and white at the time, it was still a surprise. According to the information, this old photo before the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan was actually sold for 200,000 pounds at auction, which is really a sigh.
At the same time that the old photos of the Yuanmingyuan were auctioned, the Tongzhi Emperor also issued an edict in 1873 to rebuild the Yuanmingyuan, but less than a year after the start of construction, it was persuaded to stop because of the shortage of funds. The restoration of the Old Summer Palace is important, but remembering history is the most important. In the past hundred years, it will always be a painful history that is difficult to uncover.
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