Mainly concentrated in Qian Chao District, Houhu District, West District and North District of Yuanmingyuan, as well as Gongmen District of Wanchun Garden and Xiaqingtang at the entrance of Fuchuntang. However, less than 10 months after the project started, it was forced to stop work for maintenance due to the exhaustion of funds. Since then, Empress Dowager Cixi has built the Summer Palace, but not the Yuanmingyuan.
Eight-Nation Alliance 1900 invaded Beijing, and the gardens in the western suburbs were looted again. This time, the Qing government has completely lost control of Yuanmingyuan. Bandits and local ruffians are not satisfied with robbing foreigners of their surplus wealth. They sawed off the scattered buildings, columns and wooden bridges in the garden after the fire robbery, and pulled them down with big ropes. The trees and trees in the garden were also cut down.
At that time, the timber in Qinghe town was piled up like a mountain, and the trade was busy. There were many charcoal factories in the park, and all the branches and roots were burned into charcoal. Buildings and ancient and famous trees in Yuanmingyuan were completely destroyed.
After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan were plundered by bureaucrats, warlords and profiteers for a long time. In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords who changed like lanterns regarded Yuanmingyuan as an inexhaustible building material field.
At this point, Yuanmingyuan has been looted by fire, wood and stone, and all the buildings, trees and bricks in Yuanmingyuan have disappeared. During the Japanese occupation period after 1940, Beijing was short of food, so it was rewarded for land reclamation.
Since then, farmers have successively entered the park to fill the lake in Pingshan and open up wasteland to grow rice. Yuanmingyuan, a painstaking effort in the early Qing Dynasty 150 years of victory over lakes and mountains, is beyond recognition.
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After the Yuanmingyuan was burned by the British and French allied forces, it was still forbidden by the Qing court and was guarded by specialized agencies and special personnel. However, after Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing in 1900, the invading army again carried out public robbery and the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed again.
The "Serene Kincaid" in Changchun Garden was originally built on the double-layer white marble altar in the lake. Magnificent and tall buildings survived the battle of British and French allied forces, but the battle of Eight-Nation Alliance was finally destroyed in ruins.
The "Pengdao Yaotai" in Fuhai Center was also destroyed by the Eight-Nation Alliance War. The "solemn dharma circle" and "Wei Zao Tang" in Wanchun Garden were also destroyed at this time.
Baidu encyclopedia-Yuanmingyuan
People's Network-Yuanmingyuan was robbed and burned (recalling the past and present)