24. The Three Gardens of the Old Ming Dynasty (1)
Before the Qing rulers entered the customs, they lived a nomadic life in the northeast and had a cool climate. After the pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info entered the customs, they were very unaccustomed to the dry and hot climate of Beijing in midsummer. The Qing Dynasty emperor felt that it was dull and depressed, especially in the early years of Kangxi, after the fire in the Forbidden City, in order to prevent fire, high palace walls were built. The courtyards and courtyards of the palace are set together, and the water flow of the stream and ditch is too gentle, almost becoming stagnant water, which makes the emperors a little tired of the palace life with deep walls, so from the early years of Kangxi, they began to build gardens, and this construction project lasted for more than 200 years. In the western suburbs of Beijing, there are continuous Xishan Xiufeng: Yuquan Mountain, Wanshou Mountain, Wanquanzhuang, Beihaidian and other terrains, artesian springs are everywhere, and in the low-lying places converge into large and small lakes and ponds.
The Yuquan landscape flows into Kunming Lake from west to east, becoming the largest water surface in the western suburbs. Large areas of rice fields have been cultivated here, forming a natural scenic area. As early as the Liao Dynasty, the feudal emperor chose to build the Yuquan Mountain Palace, and in the Ming Dynasty, the natural scenery here attracted more tourists, so some dignitaries and nobles occupied the countryside to build villas, and a large area of land was occupied by a piece of land. In the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Li Wei, the marquis of the Qing Dynasty of the Ming Dynasty, built a large number of buildings here, and first built the Tsinghua Garden, which is magnificent in scale and known as the "first garden in Beijing" (the site is outside the west wall of Peking University). Later, Mi Wanzhong guided the lake outside the east wall of Tsinghua Garden, and opened up the elegant and beautiful "Spoon Garden", taking the meaning of "a spoon in Haidian". In the empty suburbs, there are pavilions and pavilions and lakes and mountains, and it has become a famous place for gardens in the suburbs of Beijing. In the Qing Dynasty, the emperor also took a fancy to the western suburbs, an excellent place for gardening. Large-scale construction of gardens began.
"Old Summer Palace", this name was named by the Kangxi Emperor. The three-character plaque of Emperor Kangxi's imperial book is hung above the door of the Old Summer Palace. There is an explanation for this "Yuanming" Yongzheng Emperor, saying that the meaning of the word "Yuanming" is: God, the time of the gentleman; Bright and pervasive, people too. Meaning, "circle" refers to the ideal standard of the class of personal qualities. The location of the Old Summer Palace is in the north of Jiaotun, about a mile away from the Changchun Garden, the Old Summer Palace in the Kangxi era, there are the front lake, the back lake, etc., and there are "peony terraces", "natural pictures" and other garden landscapes built in it. When the Old Summer Palace was still a feudal garden, the scale could not exceed the emperor's Changchun Garden, so there were not many scenery and fame, far less than the Changchun Garden. But later, with the accession of the master, the peaceful and prosperous era of the Qing Dynasty arrived, and in its more than 60 years of successive expansion, it finally became the most magnificent royal garden in China's history. After Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he adjusted the landscape of the garden in the Old Summer Palace, added building groups, and built Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden (renamed Wanchun Garden in the Tongzhi period) in the east and southeast neighbors of the Old Summer Palace. These three gardens are all under the management of the Minister of the Old Summer Palace, called the Three Gardens of the Old Summer Palace.
On June 3, the emperor and the imperial concubine, Yi Guifei and ** concubines' carriage slowly passed by the wall in front of the palace gate, and got off in front of the palace gate. In the movie "The Burning of the Old Summer Palace", the weak Emperor Xianfeng held the dragon in his hand, listening to the battle situation from the front line, his face was full of panic; When he heard that the "Old Summer Palace" had been burned down and looted, he vomited blood and fainted.
The picture switches to the once graceful and luxurious Old Summer Palace, filled with black smoke and firelight, and the leaders of the British and French allied forces are holding civilized sticks, under the deterrence of the muzzle of Western-style weapons in the black hole, they let their subordinates loot on a large scale; Everywhere the hooves of the beasts are everywhere, the grass and trees are sad, and the bricks and stones are weeping. The huge Old Summer Palace was destroyed beyond recognition, and the royal dignity of the Qing Dynasty was trampled to pieces. Since then, the Chinese nation has entered a history of humiliation for nearly 100 years, and anyone can kick it and bite it.
Xingzhen's expression turned cold and hard, Xiao Anzi was worthy of being a human spirit, and looked at Yi Guifei's expression to turn indifferent, and asked quietly: "Guifei Niangniang, what are you thinking?" ”
"Hongu is thinking of a word."
"What words? Tell me about it. ”
"That is, if you fall behind, you will be beaten." Xingzhen dropped this sentence that made An Dehai puzzled, and followed Emperor Xianfeng into the main gate of the Old Summer Palace without looking back.
Emperor Xianfeng sat down in the East Warm Pavilion of the Qingyan Hall in Kyushu, the little eunuch who had been prepared had already been prepared, stepped forward to serve in a quick and orderly manner, first a soft white hot towel was handed to him, and then into the ginseng soup and bird's nest, and finally the little eunuch Ruyi, holding into a large fruit box with vermilion lacquer embedded in the drop, kneeling next to the throne, the lid of the box was opened, inside were five kinds of candied fruits such as golden silk dates, wood lotus root, red lychee, apricot pear, muskmelon, etc., the emperor forked up a piece of melon with a golden fork and put it in his mouth to eat, and a little bit of travel fatigue was relieved. Xingzhen accompanied the emperor to use some fruits, the other concubines had already been settled, and the concubine Kang Ci also went to the "Changchun Immortal Pavilion" to rest.
The emperor dropped the golden fork, settled down, and asked with a smile, "Lan'er, have you chosen where to live?" ”
"The first time the concubine came to the garden, where can you know where to go, but last time the emperor remembered, the concubine told you, thinking about going to Hangzhou, I heard that there is a house built in this garden according to the ten views of the West Lake when Lord Qianlong went down to the south of the Yangtze River, where does the concubine want to live." Xingzhen said with a smile.
"This is naturally easy to say, well, just live in the wind lotus in Quyuan, the lotus at this time just gives you the heat of the summer, and it is close to my Kyushu Qingyan, and I often come to see you." Emperor Xianfeng thought for a while, and then pointed out the wind lotus in the Quyuan to Concubine Yi.
"Thank you to the emperor, the concubine went to settle first, the emperor, you should also rest first, and then call the military aircraft to discuss the matter, although the state affairs are busy, but the emperor's body is the first priority." Xingzhen saluted like a ceremony, and was ready to retire with Anqian's hand, Emperor Xianfeng smiled and bowed his head, and after Yi Guifei retreated, the emperor closed his eyes and raised his mind, and after a while, he said: "Chuan Li Concubine, Dongnuan Pavilion serves." ”
"Wow!"
There was something going on last night, and it was reissued this morning, and there is another chapter in the evening.