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The Old Summer Palace, also known as the Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty, is the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, for the fourth prince Yinzhen, that is, the garden of the Yongzheng Emperor, because the Qing Dynasty was established when it was accustomed to the vast Liaoyuan in the northeast, and the climate was cool, after coming to the capital, I felt imprisoned by the palace wall, so that the Qing Dynasty emperors were tired of the lifeless solemnity of the palace. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Began to overhaul the garden, the three gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty in the capital, the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden and the Wan Chun Yuan, as well as the later famous Summer Palace, Chengde Summer Resort, etc., are all imperial palace gardens established by the Qing Dynasty.

The three gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty are composed of the Old Summer Palace, the Changchun Garden, and the Wanchun Garden, and later after the five emperors Qianlong, Yongzheng, Jiaqing, Daoguang, and Xianfeng took more than 150 years to really complete the construction and maturity, covering an area of more than 340 hectares, with a construction area of more than 20 hectares, and more than 150 landscapes, known as the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens.

In addition to being a royal garden and a summer retreat for the emperor, the Old Summer Palace also has important cultural, architectural, collectible, and historical value.

The buildings in the Old Summer Palace include all kinds of characteristic buildings at home and abroad at that time, not only traditional Chinese characteristic buildings, but also some Western buildings, which can be described as a large integration of thousands of years of Chinese architecture, more than 100 landscapes, none of which is repeated, and there are all kinds of architectural characteristics in the north and south of the Chinese great rivers and overseas.

Moreover, there are Taoist and religious buildings with the characteristics of the Old Summer Palace, in addition to the royal ancestral hall with the largest building volume, there is a prescription pot Shengjing in accordance with the rumored Taoist fairyland, the fairy mountain Qiongge building.

The Old Summer Palace enshrines more than 2,200 Buddha statues, more than 30 pagodas, and the front base of the building is made of white marble in the shape of a "mountain", which extends into the water. The whole building is huge and splendid. Whenever the mist begins in the early morning, the building appears and disappears in the smoke, just like the Qiongge Yaotai.

There is also a Buddhism, the Acropolis, the building is built in imitation of the ancient Indian capital, which enshrines the Buddha statues of the Manchu Dynasty and the relatives of the emperor, there are golden bodies, jade bodies, bronze sculptures, etc., more than 100,000 seats.

Whether it is cultural value or architectural value, it is innumerable and immeasurable.

As a garden, the Old Summer Palace has the name of four seasons of everspring, because there are thousands of rare plants in it, in addition to the local representative pine, bamboo, willow, lotus, sycamore, oriental cypress, Chinese acacia, there are also plantains, plum blossoms, Aohan lotus outside the Saiwai, Wutai Mountain nasturtium, South Asian Persian peach, Western mimosa and other rare plants.

It has truly achieved 'twenty-four winds, three hundred and sixty days of flowers blooming'

In addition, the Old Summer Palace also raised hundreds of animals in those years, including white apes, elk, crested ibis, cranes, peacocks, swans, five-colored koi fish, etc., as well as the legendary unicorn 'giraffe'.

There are more than 400 birds in the Western Building alone, and there are more than 400 birds that are caged all year round.

In addition to these, the Treasure Pagoda of the Old Summer Palace is known as the largest royal museum in the world, and the English Empire and the French Empire sent envoys to the Old Summer Palace many times to exchange views, and each time the emperor would reward some knick-knacks to make these uninformed gringos look like treasures.

The number of cultural relics in the Old Summer Palace is a mystery, probably because the number is too large, and the archives about the cultural relics have been missing, which also brings great inconvenience to the later statistics of how many cultural relics have been lost in the Old Summer Palace.

The great French writer Victor Hugo once said: "Even if all the treasures of all the museums of our country are taken together, they cannot be compared with this grand and magnificent Oriental museum."

The halls in the park are decorated with countless rosewood furniture, and there are many rare cultural relics at home and abroad. The Chinese Yuan Pavilion is one of the four major imperial library buildings in China.

Wenyuan Pavilion, modeled after the paradigm of the world's first library pavilion 'Tianyi Pavilion' was established, when Ji Xiaolan was responsible for the compilation and sorting of the "Siku Quanshu" was produced here, and there is also a special collection of calligraphy copy and copy of the "Chunhua Pavilion Post"

"Chunhua Pavilion Post" from the Northern Song Dynasty has a copy version, to the Qing Dynasty has included the ancestor of Chinese characters Cangjie, calligraphy master Wang Xizhi, Wang Xianzhi, Confucius, Yan Zhenqing and other famous calligraphy masters in history 99 copies of the works, organized into a post, the cultural value is self-evident, almost condensed the Chinese millennium literary soul.

However, in 1860, the British and French Empire broke open the palace gate and carried out a brutal ransack.

In the Old Summer Palace, the British and French forces pursued the imperialist practice of 'taking it away if it can be taken away, and destroying it if it can't be taken away', and then with the approval of British Prime Minister Palmerston, the Old Summer Palace was burned down.

The fire burned for three days and three nights, and thick smoke and black fog wafted over the entire capital, making people desperate like the end of the world.

The burning down of this world-famous garden is not only a national shame for a country in China, but also a loss and catastrophe for the entire human civilization.

When the French writer Victor Hugo heard the news, he risked being killed by imperialism and wrote a letter to the time.

'Hugo's Letter to Captain Boutreel'

The letter euphemistically expressed his denunciation of the atrocities of war and the looting of civilization as a literary and artistic worker.

One day, two robbers broke into the Old Summer Palace. One robber looted, another robber set fire, one called English and the other French.

At the same time, I hope that in the era of peace, these looted things can be returned to the Dragon Kingdom.

But Mr. Hugo's wish, it seems, has not been fulfilled in the past 140 years.

After the Old Summer Palace was burned, the Empress Dowager Cixi ordered part of the Old Summer Palace to be restored after she came to the throne, although she had already built the Summer Palace at that time.

However, because of the emptiness of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the Old Summer Palace project was huge, and the restoration work was forced to stop after ten months.

But it was this that had suffered a lot of hardships and survived, and in 1900, it suffered a devastating blow, the Eight-Nation Coalition invaded China, and completely destroyed the Old Summer Palace, including the ruins of the wall, and even the trees in the garden were cut down.

After two devastating blows to the Old Summer Palace by foreign enemies, the last trace of breath was sucked away by the warlords, who blew up all the huge stone buildings in the Old Summer Palace during the Republic of China, and then sold them to various places. ’

Later, in 1940, the Japanese invaders occupied the capital, and cultivated land on the ruins of the Old Summer Palace, not even letting go of the 'corpse'.

The Old Summer Palace, which was supposed to be stable and perseverance at the top of the history of world civilization, was finally barbarically ransacked, which should not only be a national disaster, but a disaster and catastrophe for human civilization.

But the real purpose of the destruction of the Old Summer Palace was not only the great temptation brought by cultural relics and materials, but also the real evil intentions of the Western powers.

The Roman Empire burned down the Library of Alexandria, the oldest library in the world, completely cutting off the civilization of ancient Egypt.

This is a premeditated 'burning' of cultural destruction.

It was not only because the Western powers coveted the rich Chinese treasures, but also because although the Western civilizations were not as brilliant as the East at that time, they were not bad, especially at the spiritual level, and the respect for culture and art was more important than that of the East.

How could they be so brainless as to burn down such a world-class civilization treasure garden?

What they want to burn is a civilization that has been passed down for thousands of years by the Chinese nation.

The catastrophe of the Old Summer Palace not only gradually condensed the cohesion of the entire Chinese nation, but also gradually awakened the literary soul that had been deposited for hundreds of years, and from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, a large number of masters in the field of literature and art appeared.

In that war-torn era when life was not guaranteed, so many Chinese talents were born, which was tantamount to the favor of the ancestors, and the sky would not die in China.

Therefore, for Wang Yao, the meaning of the Old Summer Palace is not only a symbol of national shame, but also a declaration in the face of other civilizations in the world.

The Chinese civilization has never died, and the Chinese civilization is still brilliant.

So when he heard the news of the beast head of the Old Summer Palace, Wang Yao was excited and didn't sleep all night, but due to the system upgrade, he couldn't sort out his knowledge, so he could only connect the records about the Old Summer Palace in his mind and wanted to write another play.

But this story is much bigger than Mr. Wu Xun's story, and it not only involves the civilization of a country, but also the background and significance of the times, which has always been a huge system, and Wang Yao spent one night to complete only one story line.

From the outbreak of the First Opium War to the end of the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, the development process and some of the stories in it.

It begins with the language of the Kangxi Emperor towards the Western powers.

"Overseas countries such as the West, thousands of years later, the Dragon Kingdom is afraid of being affected, this is contrary to my expectations"

Although he was still confused and had only one outline, Wang Yao was very excited, and he wrote until the third pole of the day, when he was interrupted by Mr. Ma's phone call.

"Is the gentleman up?" Mr. Ma asked on the phone.

"Probably not, where are you?" Wang Yao got up and stretched.

"Just got off the plane, I went to the hotel to look for you, tell me the room number. Mr. Ma smiled.

Wang Yao told the room number, took a shower in the bathroom, moved a little, sorted out all the things he wrote yesterday, and waited for Mr. Ma to come.

About half an hour, there was a knock on the door, Wang Yao opened the door, wearing an embroidered dragon robe, with a dark gray embroidered dragon coat on the outside, looking a little fairy-like.

Dayu is a kind of coat in Hanfu, which evolved from the Taoist crane coat, with large sleeves and wide overall, which looks solemn but does not look bulky at all.

And this is obviously improved, the sleeves are wide and moderate, and the length of the dress is up to the calf, but it is a bit like a wide-sleeved windbreaker, but compared with the regular feeling of the windbreaker, the big coat has a solemn and fairy atmosphere.

"Why are you dressed like this?" Wang Yao was stunned and said with a smile.