War time: 1960 10 10. On 5 October, the British and French allied forces arrived at the gates of Beijing (10/0/0. On 6 October, the British and French allied forces invaded the Yuanmingyuan and robbed it. 65438+1October 7-9, Yuanmingyuan was mainly burned, and the fire burned for 3 days and nights).
Intruder: British and French forces arrived at the gates of Beijing.
Assistants: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, United States of America, Third Republic of France, German Empire, Russian Empire, Japanese Empire, Austria-Hungary, Italy.
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The famous royal gardens in Qing Dynasty. In the forty-eighth year of Kangxi (1709), Emperor Kangxi (that is, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty) gave a garden in the north of Changchun Garden in the northern suburb of Beijing to the fourth son Yin _, and personally wrote the garden as "Yuanmingyuan". In the third year of Yongzheng (1725), Yong Zhengdi (that is, Emperor Shizong Yin of Qing Dynasty _) built a palace office in the south of Yuanmingyuan, and the area was expanded from 600 mu to more than 3,000 mu.
From then on, Yuanmingyuan was not only a place for the Qing emperors to rest and visit, but also a place for them to meet foreign envoys and handle their daily affairs. After Emperor Qianlong ascended the throne, he adjusted the garden landscape in Yuanmingyuan, increased the number of architectural groups, and built Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden (Tongzhi renamed Wanchun Garden) in the east and southeast of Yuanmingyuan.
General situation of cultural relics in Yuanmingyuan
Lang Shining (1688- 1766), an Italian, was born in Milan. In the fifty-fourth year of Emperor Kangxi in Qing Dynasty (17 15), he came to China as a Catholic Jesuit monk, and later entered the palace and became a court.
Because Lang Shining brought western painting techniques, he showed the charm of European light and shadow painting to the emperor and other court painters, which was highly valued by Emperor Kangxi, Emperor Yong Zhengdi and Emperor Qianlong.
While Sino-French relations were still at a low ebb, another incident that aroused China's strong dissatisfaction, especially the people's great anger, occurred in Paris: Christie's auction company held a special auction of "Yves Saint Laurent and Pierre Beijing's Treasures" in Paris from February 23rd to 25th, regardless of China's opposition. These items include the heads of mice and rabbits in Yuanmingyuan.
Baidu encyclopedia-burning Yuanmingyuan