1. The burning of Old Summer Palace occurred during the Second Opium War.

2. In the 10th year of Xianfeng (1860), after the British and French forces captured Beijing, they occupied the Old Summer Palace. The Chinese defenders were outnumbered. Wen Feng, the minister in charge of the Old Summer Palace, committed suicide by throwing himself into Fuhai. Concubine Chang who lived in the garden was frightened and died. British army leader Elgin, with the support of British Prime Minister Palmerston, ordered the burning of the Old Summer Palace. 3,500 British and French troops rushed into the Old Summer Palace and set it on fire. The fire did not go out for three days.

3. In October 1856, Britain and France launched war against China again and occupied Beijing in 1860. The British and French forces burned, looted, and looted the Qing Dynasty's royal garden, the Old Summer Palace. This war was called the Second Opium War.