1, Qing Xianfeng ten years (1860) after the British and French allied forces captured Beijing, on October 6 to occupy the Yuanmingyuan. Chinese defenders were outnumbered, the Yuanmingyuan Minister Wen Feng threw himself into the Fuhai, living in the garden of concubines died of shock. The British and French armies ransacked the Yuanmingyuan for two days, and then marched into the city. on October 11, the British army sent more than 1,200 cavalry and an infantry regiment to ransack the Yuanmingyuan again, and the British plenipotentiary, James Bruce, used the excuse that the Qing government had imprisoned Basha Li and others in the Yuanmingyuan as a condition for including the Yuanmingyuan in the negotiations on the preconditions for peace. on October 18, 3,500 British troops rushed into the Yuanmingyuan and set it on fire, which did not go out for three days. Extinguished, Yuanmingyuan and the nearby Qingyi Garden, Jingmingyuan, Jingyi Garden, Changchunyuan and Haidian town were burned to a ruin, Anyou Palace, nearly 300 eunuchs, palace maids, craftsmen buried in flames. Become a rare atrocity in the history of world civilization.

2, the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, which is a reference to what people are used to saying. In fact, the real concept of the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, not only the burning of the Yuanmingyuan, but the burning of the Royal three hills and five gardens in western Beijing. The scope of the burning was much larger than the Yuanmingyuan.

3, these three mountains and five gardens are: Wanshou Mountain, Yuquan Mountain, Xiangshan Mountain three mountains, Qingyi Garden, Yuanmingyuan, Changchunyuan, Jingmingyuan, Jingyiyuan five gardens.

4, the history of the invading forces burned the Yuanmingyuan had two times. The first burning of the Yuanmingyuan Qing Xianfeng decade (1860), the British and French forces invaded Beijing. Anglo-French allied forces everywhere burning, looting, savagely looting, burning the world-famous Yuanmingyuan, most of the temple buildings in the park was also destroyed in the fire. When the British and French forces burned the Yuanmingyuan, the intention was to raze it to the ground, but due to the Yuanmingyuan garden area is too large, the attractions scattered, and the vastness of the water, some remote places and water attractions were spared. According to the Tongzhi 12 years (1873) winter survey, the garden still exists in 13 buildings. For example, the Yuanmingyuan Pengdao Yaotai, hidden boat dock, Qichunyuan large palace gate, Zhengjue Temple and so on.

5, the second burning of the Yuanmingyuan is the Qing Guangxu 26 years (1900), the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, once again set fire to the Yuanmingyuan, so that the remaining 13 royal palaces here were looted and burned.