"Please build a dream out of marble, white jade, bronze and porcelain, make cedar stilts, cloth them with satin, decorate them with precious stones, build shrines here, build harems there, put idols of gods, decorate them with glass, decorate them with gold, decorate them with fat powder. Ask the architect of the poet to build a thousand and one dreams of one thousand and one nights, add gardens, square pools, and fountains, and imagine a fairyland in human fantasy, which is a palace and a temple. ”
This is a monologue at the beginning of the documentary, which makes us think of the image of the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens in our minds, not the ruins and broken walls that are now displayed.
Most of this documentary is about the events of Lang Shining's lifetime, this elderly figure who has experienced three generations of Kangqian, witnessed the process of the Yuanmingyuan from scratch, from ordinary to legendary, although this international friend participated in the construction of the Yuanmingyuan, but after all, from the perspective of an outsider.
China's modern history is a history from prosperity to decline, and foreign invaders finally burned down this building representing the feudal system, stimulating every Chinese person and arousing their national self-esteem.
This is released in 2006, the work of director Jin Tiemu, the best documentary of the 12th Huabiao Awards, high-definition, digital technology reproduces the whole process of the history of the Yuanmingyuan from the establishment, expansion and destruction of the Yuanmingyuan Brilliant three-dimensional animation will present a magnificent Yuanmingyuan, as if traveling through it. Let every Chinese return to that era.
The Yuanmingyuan is not only a history of Chinese humiliation, the Yuanmingyuan should be the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" that makes the Chinese people more proud of their nationality.