The Yuanmingyuan was unexpectedly harvested, and 50,000 cultural relics were found under the ruins, one of which is more precious than the head of the beast
Yuanmingyuan was once the imperial garden of the Qing Dynasty, now located in Haidian District, Beijing, was founded in the forty-sixth year of the Qing Kangxi, there was a metaphor for the garden of ten thousand gardens, the Emperor of the Qing Dynasty would come to the garden every midsummer to deal with political affairs, so some people also called it the summer palace, even if it is a few words, we can probably imagine its once difficult to hide the luxury and brilliance, how many skilled craftsmen have drawn patterns, exquisitely carved, night and day to create such a place for the emperor of the dynasty to take a vacation, How many workers are bound to work diligently and diligently to clean each palace to make it spotless, how many imperial concubines have stood under the tree by the pool, or read with their backs, or play leisurely, how much history and culture such a garden carries, and how many people praise and praise, but the good times are not long, this large royal garden suffered heavy damage during the Second Opium War in 1860, when the Qing Dynasty was dying, the Western powers began to plot how to encroach on this late sleeping lion while testing the national conditions of the late Qing Dynasty. Unequal wars of aggression are also continuous.
In the Second Opium War, the British and French allies approached the capital and looted the Yuanmingyuan, which contained countless precious objects and frescoes, which could be taken away by them and transported back to their country, while those that could not be taken away were burned and destroyed, and a generation of famous gardens fell. The degree of loss is very serious, the crimes of the British and French coalition forces are difficult to read, according to foreign newspapers reported that the total value of the cultural relics damaged and robbed in the Yuanmingyuan exceeded 6 million pounds, from behind this huge figure, it can be seen that the mainland's historical and cultural trauma is great, the cultural loss is serious, and now as a descendant, we can only see the ruins of the broken wall, and it is difficult to see the magnificent garden scenery of the original, fortunately, there are still some relics left in the bricks and tiles, and there are records that the Tongzhi Emperor once intended to rebuild the decaying Yuanmingyuan. However, the national strength is weakening day by day, the financial resources are insufficient, and the rebels are often infested, they really can't afford it, let alone be distracted, and finally regret it.
But in the folk perspective at that time, they felt that the dead camel was bigger than The horse, after the Yuanmingyuan experienced the looting of the British and French powers, the remaining defeats still attracted many folk thieves to flock to it, the Qing court itself was difficult to protect, and there was no time to send people to maintain it, the Yuanmingyuan eventually became a ruin, the former site of the Yuanmingyuan is now the Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park, which is now a 5A-level national tourist attraction, and posterity has also come to visit after learning history, trying to find the sins of the former glory and the British-French alliance, after witnessing, And can't help but sigh how much the British and French coalition forces abducted, how much we lost, these are irreparable losses, in the later years, the mainland cultural circles have always remembered the restoration work of the Yuanmingyuan, want to put it on the work schedule, but then there have been many wars, regime changes, the situation is chaotic, there is really no stable environment to allow the restoration work, this matter is not put on the agenda, and finally after the Yuanmingyuan was robbed for 150 years, archaeologists have carried out three archaeological activities. We have also accidentally excavated a lot of cultural relics and monuments, and its mystery has been slowly unveiled in the persistent pursuit of archaeologists, so that we have the opportunity to see this pearl in the vicissitudes of cultural history.
At the end of the 1990s, the domestic development momentum was built, it seems to have a relaxed environment for cultural research, and the curiosity of people from all walks of life in the park has intensified, of course, more is the desire to restore the Yuanmingyuan, so some people proposed to open a round of archaeological excavations, of course, there are also opposition voices, some people are not very favorable, they think that once this project is established, it is necessary to have extremely high technical requirements, but also consume a lot of manpower and material resources, all aspects of development at that time, It still may not seem like a good opportunity to start excavating, but after a long debate, the desire for history and culture overcame concerns about real conditions, and after setting the target, archaeologists began to carry out initial preparatory activities in the park.
The first is to divide the area, detect the reasonable location, and then use the metal detector to conduct detailed detection in the place, in order to produce the most accurate and stable operation plan, more fortunately, the metal detector sent an exciting signal when detecting the place, and then the national cultural relics department will pay attention to this project, and for this purpose, a special meeting to study, all walks of life have expressed their agreement, hoping that the association can finally make a prudent decision, both can excavate cultural relics to study history and culture, but also strictly protect the site from damage, finally, The national cultural relics department has made a very rigorous decision, archaeologists can excavate parts of the park, of course, including the imminent repair work, archaeologists are both happy and worried, the work is exciting, but they also know that this work is not easy, the excavation and restoration of the Yuanmingyuan is not only a matter of great importance to the archaeological community, but also for the history of the entire country, so it is necessary to be extra careful, There must be no mistakes, otherwise it will cause immeasurable losses, fortunately the effort pays off, and when the work is about to come to an end, archaeologists have excavated a large number of cultural relics in an unopened land with an area of about 50,000 square meters, which is a bonus for the staff present.
As soon as this news came out, it attracted a large number of interested people in the shortest possible time, after all, for many years people have had infinite curiosity about this site, and the public wanted to see up close whether this large royal garden still had some treasures belonging to us after it was severely damaged and looted, and could the cultural relics experts restore it? Some people feel that the difference can't help but ask during the Second Opium War, the Yuanmingyuan has long been looted by the great powers, so where did the cultural relics found in the later archaeological activities come from?
Experts explained that because the Yuanmingyuan was one of the few large-scale imperial gardens in the Qing Dynasty, it occupied a large area, the number and variety of cultural relics treasures were also extensive and rich, at that time, the powers and the best they could not do to transport everything there, so there were many difficult to take away or relatively small cultural relics, thrown in the water well or dug a large pit deep buried in the ground, so later archaeologists in the archaeological activities of these cultural relics, is the one that was discarded at that time, and most of these cultural relics excavated later are also some bumps. One of the largest reasons for the damaged scratches was the destruction of the British and French powers at that time, and the other part of the reason was that it was hidden in the ground for a long time by the mud, and it was more or less corroded, and the archaeologists also excavated and classified on the one hand in the process of work, and urgently repaired on the other hand.
In this archaeological activity, the most eye-catching cultural relics that have been able to see the light of day are the bronze gilded elephant heads. In addition, there are some jade carved stone ornaments and so on have also been praised for a long time, among which the most eye-catching cultural relics are bronze gilded elephant heads, which can be said to be the most exquisite in this archaeological activity, and extremely precious. Today it is still golden and dazzling under the lights, and one of the most important reasons that it can be preserved so well and has not faded away is the efforts of the archaeologists, it is their night and day repair work, so that the national treasures are rebuilt day and night, restored in good condition, and become dazzling, the significance of this cultural relic unearthed is extraordinary, it almost represents the high level of casting technology of Qing Dynasty craftsmen, as well as the high level of gilding skills at that time, in addition to a cultural relics are also very classic, That is the pastel tiles, the pastel tiles excavated in this archaeological activity are exquisitely patterned, the pattern pattern is also another kind of exquisite, ordinary people see its beautiful appearance, which makes them can't help but marvel.
But people who know a little about these processes know that the most important thing about the specialness of this cultural relic is that in the Qing Dynasty, the raw material used by the craftsmen was dry sand, which should be very rare at that time, and the advantage of using this raw material was to make the heat and heat dissipation relatively even during the production process, and the use of this material showed the wisdom and research spirit of the ancient craftsmen, and there was another treasure Jiajing Emperor stone carving, which had a seal and a pair of jade seals engraved by the Jiajing Emperor himself, and the seal was engraved with the poetry of the dragon and the poetry, Even if it has been a long time, you can still recognize the handwriting on it, the other pair of jade seals is the same, there is the words of the treasure of the Jiaqing Imperial Pen on it, the years have flowed but the antiquities have not changed in the slightest, some people wonder how the jade seal at that time fell into the water, and some people speculated that it was the palace people who threw it into the hands of thieves in order not to let the jade seal that symbolized imperial power fall into the hands of thieves, and various theories were only speculations after all, and the specific situation at that time was unknown.
In this archaeological activity, the staff also found that belonging to the Yuanmingyuan Hall of Yanqing Hall, there are some remnants of mural decorations, the most worth mentioning is the surrounding embellishment, the use of cloud stone, exquisite, in the decoration, the decoration of the large store than the decoration of the side shop in the number and process are unparalleled, the above mentioned several cultural relics, are urgently sent to the cultural relics laboratory after the discovery of the emergency repair, the middle after a number of processes to make them return to their original state to the greatest extent, Eventually became a member of the national treasure, although the actual conditions at that time were constrained by the long intermediate time, the degree of damage was serious, even if the most top technology at that time was used to restore these cultural relics, it was difficult to ensure that all the cultural relics were restored in good condition, but we can not deny the significance of this cultural relics rescue activities, archaeological staff and cultural relics restorers have done their best to excavate and repair and remedy.
The bad experience of the Yuanmingyuan is not only a humiliating history of the destruction and plundering of a royal garden, but also one of the historical symbols of the humiliation of old China since the late Qing Dynasty, which embodies not only the traces of time but also the footsteps and truths of history, starting from the Opium War, the Western powers discovered the truth of the national conditions of the late Qing Dynasty' declining state affairs, which was completely self-contained paper tigers, so they began to constantly provoke the invasion, the door of the country was forced to open, the people were like fish and meat to be slaughtered, and the invaders smelled the bloody smell of sharks in the sea. From the beginning of trying to get a piece of the pie to the end of the blatant comparison of who shares more, this is simply a history of humiliation in modern times.
The rulers can not protect the people, or even protect their own country, as the ruler but fleeing everywhere, step by step to give way to the territory ceded out, cultural antiques have also been robbed and scattered overseas, and now they have to redeem at a high price the cultural relics they stole from our country, and these cultural relics are rebuilt, we can also see from it that the Yuanmingyuan was once brilliant, and its decline is a huge loss in the history of Chinese history and world architecture, but with the rapid development of China, we should be very confident. In the future era, archaeologists and cultural relics restorers on the mainland will certainly be able to restore the beauty of the Yuanmingyuan to the beginning, so that future generations can once again feel the spectacular scenery of Chinese culture.
In fact, we should study and understand that there is a deeper truth, first of all, we must be patriotic, strive to build the country, the country is strong in order to make the people rich, not to be bullied, we will never allow the tragic situation of the Yuanmingyuan to be staged again, resolutely resist any form of cultural aggression and cultural deprivation, protect our culture, history is the root of a nation, any nation should keep history in mind, in recent years, South Korea has been trying to take China's traditional culture for itself, and even more to take it to apply for heritage, only because they were once our vassal states in history. Therefore, inheriting some of China's traditional culture, the mainland, as an independent cultural power, should protect its own country's traditional culture, resolutely not allow some small countries without cultural roots to steal our culture, resolutely resist cultural aggression and cultural thieves, and secondly attach importance to the inheritance of excellent traditional culture.
In fact, in recent years, there have been more and more young people concerned about the development of China's long history and culture, began to be willing to understand China's traditional culture, understand the story behind the cultural relics dynasty, the first two years with the national treasures, I repair cultural relics in the Forbidden City and other meaningful cultural programs broadcast, there are more and more young people determined to repair cultural relics, archaeology is no longer unpopular, because they have seen the charm of culture, and voluntarily to publicize the excellent culture of history, the real culture as their own spiritual wealth and forward momentum , the last is the civilized visit, words and deeds, not limited to the restoration of the Yuanmingyuan, there are many cultural relics and monuments are repaired under the efforts of the staff, so we need to do not touch or take lightly in the process of visiting, so as not to destroy the labor crystals of the staff, the most serious is to cause indelible harm, if the civilized visit is the requirement for tourists, then words and deeds are the requirements for some staff in the field of culture and entertainment, remember to show cultural relics on a program, The host reminded a female star to touch the cultural relics less and take it lightly, but the female star casually said that it does not matter if it is broken, it can be repaired. This has also aroused the disgust of many viewers, the female star as a public figure with tens of millions of fans, but has such a shallow sense of cultural relics protection, never realized the difficulty of cultural relics restoration work and the degree of non-renewable preciousness, as a Chinese is really ashamed of her.
Finally, I still hope that Chinese traditional culture can be better disseminated, the Yuanmingyuan can also have a more brilliant cultural future, and the back waves of the new era can also correctly view China's excellent traditional culture to understand the knowledge of cultural relics and become a new generation of qualified cultural heirs