The Yuanmingyuan is a treasure in the construction of ancient Chinese gardens, but now it is nowhere to be found, at the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Yuanmingyuan was burned down by the British and French forces, and now only the regrets of the Yuanmingyuan are left.
In our impression, it was the French and British troops who burned the Yuanmingyuan together, but a hundred years later, the British have told different truths, so what are the British talking about?
Later, the British army admitted that it was only the British army that burned the Yuanmingyuan, and the French army did not burn the Yuanmingyuan, but the British and French troops all ransacked the Yuanmingyuan, and after looting the Yuanmingyuan, the British army insisted on burning the Yuanmingyuan to destroy their own evidence. However, the French army did not approve of this behavior, and the British army did not listen to the persuasion of the French army and insisted on burning down the Yuanmingyuan.
The fire burned for three days and three nights, and the entire garden was reduced to ashes, but even if the British and French allies acted arbitrarily in the Yuanmingyuan, the Qing government still did not dare to resist, and even cut the land to pay compensation.
In fact, the British army burned not only the Yuanmingyuan, all the three mountains and five gardens in Beijing were burned by the British army, the reason why the British army did this is because the Qing government once killed British prisoners, and the British also remembered the losses in the original trade, so they burned the three mountains and five gardens in order to retaliate against the Qing government. The destruction of the Yuanmingyuan is really a great shame for China, and if it is backward, it will be beaten, and this sentence deserves to be remembered at all times.