The Old Summer Palace, also known as the Three Old Summer Palaces, is a large royal palace in the Qing Dynasty. The reasons for not restoring the Old Summer Palace are:

1. The existing ruins of the Old Summer Palace are an eternal commemoration of national humiliation. The land is a living teaching material for patriotic education from generation to generation;

2. If it is restored, the educational value of historical cultural relics will be lost, and people need to remember this humiliating history;

3. The current main value of the Old Summer Palace is no longer the splendor of the palace buildings or royal gardens a hundred years ago, but the shame left after being burned by the invaders;

4. Restoration of the Old Summer Palace It is a complete destruction of historical relics, which is contrary to the current national cultural relics protection law.