The existing ruins of the Yuanmingyuan Park have been gradually restored to their former appearance through later restorations, and the building ruins inside remain as they were in the past. The Yuanmingyuan Park, located in the Haidian District, northwest of downtown Beijing, China, is a group of large royal gardens of the Qing Dynasty, covering an area of 350 hectares, or about 5,200 acres. The Yuanmingyuan is magnificent in scale, blending various garden styles, utilizing a variety of gardening techniques, and recreating poetic and pictorial moods, and is considered by most Chinese gardeners to be the pinnacle work in the history of Chinese garden art. It is regarded as a model of classical Chinese gardens, which are made of flat land and mountains and water. During the Qing Dynasty, some foreign missionaries in China visited the Yuanmingyuan and called it the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens". The Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

I. The origin of the name of Yuanmingyuan

Yuanmingyuan? , was named by Emperor Kangxi. Emperor Kangxi's imperial three-character plaque, which hangs above the lintel of the Yuanmingyuan Hall. The name of the garden Yongzheng emperor had an explanation, said? Yuanming? The meaning of the word is:? Round and into the God, the gentleman in the time also; Ming and illumination, the wisdom of the people also. Meaning that? Round? means that one's personal character is perfect and beyond the ordinary; ? Ming? means that the political performance is brightly illuminated and perfectly wise. This can be said to be the ideal standard for the ruling class in feudal times to label a wise ruler and a wise prime minister.

Two, Yuanmingyuan modeling features

Yuanmingyuan *** there are more than one hundred garden and landscape architectural complexes, that is, usually referred to as a hundred scenes. Set of halls, pavilions, pavilions, Xuanzhe, pavilions and lounges, corridors and other various garden buildings, *** about 160,000 square meters. Than the entire floor area of the Forbidden City is more than 10,000 square meters. Buildings in the garden, both absorbing the advantages of the successive generations of palace-style architecture, but also in the plane configuration, appearance and shape, group combinations of many aspects of the breakthrough of the official norms of the constraints of a wide range, a variety of forms. ?

Three, Yuanmingyuan religious characteristics

Yuanmingyuan temple gardens, but also reflect a side of ancient Chinese culture. Anyou Palace (Hongci Yonghu), was built according to the old example of Jingshan Shouhuang Temple. It is said to be modeled after the layout of the ancient Indian capital city of Qiaosara, the city *** there are temples, premises 326. Since the Kangxi, whenever the emperor, the dowager empress birthday, princes and ministers into the Buddha statues are stored here.

Remember when I was in elementary school, there is a text is "the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan", so far recalled the scene of reading is also vivid in my mind, indignation, tears, national sentiments are all encapsulated in it, the treasure of our great Chinese nation was so destroyed by the Eight-Power Allied Forces, in the end, I would like to say that the majority of our students should remember the history, don't forget the national shame, and strive to study, revitalize China.