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"Don't just praise something towering, plains and hills are just as immortal." —Faye Bailey
In this world, there really are amazing architectural miracles! Such as the Colosseum of ancient Rome, the Patranon Temple in ancient Greece, the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, the pyramids of ancient Egypt, the most worth mentioning is: China's "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" - the Yuanmingyuan. It is too cheesy to define it as a "royal garden", and its beauty is enough to surprise and shock the world!
The Yuanmingyuan was born in 1709, the peak of the Qing Dynasty, that is, the 48th year of the Kangxi Dynasty, and in 1722, after Yongzheng succeeded to the throne, it was expanded on a large scale, and in the Qianlong period, the Yuanmingyuan was added and reconstructed. Later Jiaqing Emperor, Daoguang Emperor and others, even if the financial resources were insufficient, still had to spend a lot of money to add luster to the Yuanmingyuan.
The Yuanmingyuan is the most glorious symbol of the entire Qing Dynasty and a miracle in the history of architecture! Unfortunately, in 1860, the British and French coalition forces invaded, not only plundered about 1.5 million cultural relics, up to the pre-Qin, down to the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming, Qing dynasties of the rare treasures, things are too many to take away, and finally put a fire to burn it, countless treasures will be ashes at this moment.
In 1900, the Eight-Power Alliance invaded China, and the Yuanmingyuan was once again severely damaged, and the Yuanmingyuan, which was already in ruins, was later damaged to varying degrees, and since then, the former glory has no longer existed, only the wreckage and scales are left. The prosperity of the Yuanmingyuan has passed away, and people have nowhere to see the miraculous works of ingenious craftsmanship in the history of Chinese architecture.
In 2006, a 71-year-old man in Zhejiang put forward a great idea, he wanted to rebuild a Yuanmingyuan in Zhejiang and reproduce the miracle of that year! This has also become the desire of the old man to complete the most.
When this "wish" is made public, it is not appreciated, but insulted and despised! The Yuanmingyuan is a symbol of the humiliation of China's modern history, it is the eternal pain of Chinese people, easy to touch is like opening a scar, on the other hand, the Yuanmingyuan is a miracle in the history of architecture, which is the product of a dynasty built for hundreds of years, no matter who says: "I want to rebuild a Yuanmingyuan." "It's all considered wishful thinking!"
This old man is Xu Wenrong, Xu Wenrong was born in 1935, before the age of 40 was still an unknown little person, at this time he has entered the age of confusion, many people are difficult to do any great cause, but he seized the opportunity of reform and opening up at this time, took the lead in hengdian to set up a silk factory, and then "opened a small desert", in the ordinary town without famous mountains and rivers to engage in tourism.
Although the Hengdian building was still very rough at that time, in 1995 he met the director Xie Jin, who wanted to shoot an "Opium War", but searched all over Sichuan, Shanghai, Hangzhou... In the end, the search for scenery was fruitless, until I met Hengdian, and because of this, Hengdian changed from an unknown tourist town to "Oriental Hollywood".
The peasant entrepreneur also stepped into the cultural field, and accumulated great wealth and achieved a successful turning point in his life, but as he had, he experienced a difficult childhood, a young man with wind and rain, a middle age of struggle, and a successful old age, and originally went to the peak of his life, but what greeted him was the "sad twilight years".
Because after the desire to rebuild the Yuanmingyuan was put forward, Xu Wenrong also became the target of public criticism, as a business tycoon, in the eyes of others, it may be false to want to make the Yuanmingyuan "come back from the dead", and it may be true to want to carry out "commercial speculation". Others scolded him for "laboring and hurting the people", "full of copper smell".
Not being understood by others is a sad and sad thing, but Xu Wenrong has never been scolded less in his life, but people are more open to everything in their twilight years, so he frankly said: "Scold! Scold! I have to do what I have to do anyway! ”
In this way, since 2008, Xu Wenrong has been planning for the "Hengdian Yuanmingyuan", and by 2012, everything is ready, and the new Yuanmingyuan project has officially started, the project is expected to cover an area of 7,000 acres, with a total investment of more than 30 billion yuan, and he will reproduce the glory of the year according to the ratio of 1:1.
Of course, the Yuanmingyuan can not only have an empty shell, while planning to build the Yuanmingyuan, Xu Wenrong is thinking, to buy back the cultural relics lost in modern China, although the Yuanmingyuan is new, but the cultural relics are treasures left over from history, are the real witnesses of history, with these cultural relics, the future Yuanmingyuan will not be just an empty shell, Xu Wenrong has paid a huge amount of money to acquire more than 50,000 antiques and works of art.
In 2015, the new Yuanmingyuan (Spring Garden) was opened to the public, tourists can enter to see the beautiful buildings, although everything is new, but the Yuanmingyuan built at a cost of 30 billion yuan has red walls and green tiles, small pavilions, carved beams and paintings... When people go inside to appreciate, they can't help but be shocked by everything here, an old man who is too old to restore such a Yuanmingyuan is not easy, and he himself can also be regarded as a perfect answer to the ideal.