The Yuanmingyuan is a history of humiliation, it makes me think y! Here is my documentary Yuanmingyuan afterthought for you, I hope you like it!

Documentary Yuanmingyuan Afterthought Part 1

This week, I watched a digital documentary, which is called "Yuanmingyuan". The Yuanmingyuan tells the story of the 18th century, the rise to fall of the Qing Empire, and the destruction of the Yuanmingyuan. Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong created the unprecedented prosperity of the Qing Dynasty, but it was this great wealth that allowed the later emperors to relax their vigilance, and the luxurious Yuanmingyuan was reduced to ashes under the fire of the British and French forces.

The clip that makes me feel the most is: In 1840, Britain launched the First Opium War against our country. The Qing government sent 30,000 men to resist with the British army, which had only 8,000 men. The weapons of the Qing army were still the same as those of more than 200 years ago: swords, birdshot and cannons. The British army was armed with the most advanced rifles and repeating guns. Nevertheless, the Qing soldiers fought with blood, and as a British officer said: although the Qing army's weapons were backward, their courage was respectable. Meanwhile, Emperor Xianfeng was very cowardly and indecisive, and instead of directing the battle at the scene of war, he fled to the Summer Palace, where he smoked opium and was served by his consort for bathing.

The stark contrast between these two clips made me very angry. I feel that as the head of the Qing Empire, Xianfeng had this responsibility and obligation to command the battle and boost morale at the scene of the war. It may be that no matter what he did, he could not change the situation that the previous emperors, including him, were conservative and arrogant enough to make the empire backward, and could not change a war that had long been doomed to failure, but if he became a deserter in the first place, he failed to fulfill the duty that a head of state should do. The Qing Empire under such an emperor is doomed to destruction.

The Garden of Perfect Brightness is China's first large-scale epic digital documentary. It documents the efforts and aspirations of Yongzheng as well as Qianlong's arrogance and disdain for the Western Industrial Revolution. The Garden of Perfect Brightness opened my eyes to the Italian missionary Lang Shining and the French missionary Wang Zhicheng, both of whom tried unsuccessfully to show the Chinese emperor the power of science. Therefore, they could only serve the emperor.

How could the Yuanmingyuan be destroyed under the great wealth created by Kangxi and Yongzheng? Because the emperor's conservatism and arrogance ate away at the Qing Empire. The emperors believed that the Qing Dynasty was heavenly and indestructible. As a result, they had no communication with the West and had no idea that the age of agricultural civilization was over and the age of cavalry was gone. Although the British envoys gave the Qing Dynasty cannons and guns, the Emperor did not think to improve the backward weapons of the Qing army. The Chinese emperors spent all their money on pleasure and not on education and national defense. As a result, the Yuanmingyuan would disappear from the face of the earth.

The Yuanmingyuan is a history of humiliation, and it makes me think y!

Documentary Yuanmingyuan After Viewing Part 2

After watching the historical documentary "Yuanmingyuan", there is an indescribable taste in my heart.

The architecture of the Yuanmingyuan is indeed majestic and spectacular. Such a grand, beautiful complex reminds me of the Palace of Versailles in France and the East Palace in St. Petersburg, Russia. The palaces of the emperors of a hundred years ago were so magnificent, so extravagant, so marvelous.

However, Versailles, the East Palace are still there for visitors from all over the world to enjoy. And the Yuanmingyuan today? A piece of rubble only. Empty weeds nearly a meter high weeds swaying with the breeze, behind the alabaster brick base powerless to tell the splendor of the world.

I fell into a deep thought. The emperors built huge palaces, the purpose is to show off their or literary talent or martial arts strategy of the unrivaled. The Qing dynasty unified China, consolidated the vassal states to establish an unrivaled hegemony in East Asia, but also up Yuanmingyuan. When the people who started the building for fun quickly no longer, and these buildings are witnessed? See him up high, see his building collapsed? of everything. I can not help but stunned: history is in the end in the sigh, or in the sneer dynasty rulers arrogant?

I have often imagined what I would have thought if I had been the soldier who plundered the Yuanmingyuan that year. The supreme palace of an almost incomprehensible land? So be it! Maybe we shouldn't ask those soldiers to understand the significance of this ancient and beautiful culture? They were just ordinary British and French soldiers. They certainly didn't have the luxury of poetry and painting, nor the Chinese culture of worshiping the authority of the emperor. All they saw were the diplomats and soldiers of their own countries who had been killed by the treacherous Qing government, and the countless treasures in the Yuanmingyuan that could mean years of wages. The soldiers of the British Empire might have hoped to get some good stuff to go back and sell for a good price to make up for their livelihood?

What a huge misunderstanding, what a huge joke.

A magnificent structure of the Chinese was built by a foreign? foreign devils? The Chinese burned it down in a fire.

How many symbols of the country that the Chinese truly loved?

How many symbols of the country that the Chinese people loved with all their hearts? Why is it that in old black-and-white photographs taken by foreigners, the luxurious palaces of Beijing are always pathetically upstaged by the poor people in the streets? Why is it that this country, with all its incredible greatness, is seen and wanted to be seen only as thousands of acres of good land where not a single crop is grown, built by destructive consumption?

This is the Yuanmingyuan, the garden of all gardens, and its destruction by foreigners was a pitiful tragedy.

Documentary Yuanmingyuan After Viewing Article 3

Today's class class, Mr. Chen arranged for us to watch the documentary "Yuanmingyuan", so that we can look back at the history, so that we can understand the former spectacular splendor of the Yuanmingyuan, but also so that we can remember the great shame of the Anglo-French Allied Forces to ransack the Yuanmingyuan.

Just as soon as class started, we sat quietly in our seats, waiting to watch the documentary "Yuanmingyuan". The movie begins with an introduction to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty and Emperor Kangxi's artistic and scientific cultivation as well as his governance. From the point of view of the Italian missionary Lan Shining, the movie recounts the efforts made by several generations of emperors to build the Yuanmingyuan.

Before watching the movie, we had already studied The Burning of the Yuanmingyuan and Letter to Captain Butler on the Anglo-French Expedition to China, and we had a partial understanding of the history of the Yuanmingyuan. After watching this documentary, we have a deeper understanding of this great building.

When we saw the architectural drawings of the Royal Academy for the Yuanmingyuan, such a beautiful and spectacular scene made us all marveled, especially in the construction of the Yuanmingyuan spent on manpower and material resources, we can not help but sigh: ? This is really worthy of a miracle of the world in the art of fantasy has a high status.? Unfortunately, this great masterpiece was destroyed in October 1860, and from then on, this great masterpiece disappeared from the face of the earth.

Watching this documentary, I felt the prosperity and prosperity of the Qing Dynasty in its heyday, the mind reflected the beauty of the Yuanmingyuan silhouette, this set of Kangxi, Yongzheng, Qianlong life's work and the construction of a great building can only become a dream shadow. And the reason is because of the decline of the Qing Dynasty, Xianfeng Emperor's mediocrity and corruption of the government. This allowed the British and French forces to take advantage of the situation and looted and burned down this great building. I for the British and French forces of brutal acts and no humanitarianism, the destruction of civilization and art to express strong indignation, the decline of the Qing Dynasty corruption to express helplessness and sympathy. One can only say that it was the weak who were the strongest, who told us that we did not have strong military power and good leaders at that time. That is why it is said that if you want to strengthen the country, then you have to strengthen the people.