Frenchman Xie Manlu
In 1882, the French minister secretary Xie Manlu and his entourage came to the north of the Old Summer Palace site to explore, and used the camera to record the precious images including Anyou Palace, Ritian Linyu, Shunmutian, Broken Bridge and Remnant Snow, Lianxi Pleasure Place, Fish Leaping Kite Flying, Beiyuan Mountain Village, Xiyanglou Ruins, Haiyue Placket, Fahui Temple Glazed Pagoda, Changchun Garden Palace Gate and other precious images.
The gate of the Anyou Palace of the Old Summer Palace
The Old Summer Palace is a wooden day
The Great Water Law of the Old Summer Palace
He was the only person to use his camera to capture photographs of the wooden buildings of the Old Summer Palace before they were destroyed. It provides a very important reference for our research on the Old Summer Palace today.
Theme: Walk into the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" - a Frenchman's journey through the ruins of the Old Summer Palace in the 19th century
Date: 17 April 2024 (Wednesday)
Time: 14:00-15:30
Speaker: Liu Yang, born in Beijing in 1981. Vice President of Beijing History and Folklore Society, now working in the Management Office of the Old Summer Palace. He is the author of "The Summer Palace of the Past-Old Summer Palace", "Old Shadows of Three Mountains and Five Gardens", "The Grand Scenery of the Old Summer Palace Today", "Who Collected the Old Summer Palace", "The Emperor of the Five Dynasties and the Old Summer Palace", "The Story of the Old Summer Palace", "Three Mountains and Five Gardens under the Diorama", "The Gate Pier of Old Beijing" and other works.
【Viewing method 1】At 14:00 on April 17, open the Weibo homepage of @Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park on Sina Weibo, view the latest Weibo, and click the video link in Weibo to watch.
【How to watch 2】Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park WeChat video account