To live in Beijing for more than a year, have been to many famous attractions, such as the Great Wall of Badaling, Fragrant Hills, the Forbidden City, Tiananmen Square, the Summer Palace and so on, strolling through a lot of parks, such as Zhongshan Park, Chaoyang Park, Majiwan Wetland Park, the Guta Park, Zizhuyuan Park and so on, there is actually a place that makes me haunted by the place I did not go, that is, the Yuanmingyuan. Our elementary school textbooks on the study of the "fire Yuanmingyuan", grew up a little and watched the "fire Yuanmingyuan" movie, a glimpse of this lost garden special desire.
Every countryman has a so-called "Yuanmingyuan complex", because the garden includes Chinese cultural relics, architecture, crafts, and even the Chinese civilization, which was lost under the destruction of external forces, and every Chinese person has a deep complex about it. This is a national shame of China that should be remembered for generations. We can forgive, but we can not forget, forgetting means betrayal.
Today is a day off, so I can finally realize this wish. In fact, from my home to ride a bicycle to the Yuanmingyuan only thirty minutes, but usually work or accompany the daughter, actually can not find free time to go, say really some funny. In the morning, I went out with my daughter, she went to school and I rode to the Yuanmingyuan alone. I came to the Yuanmingyuan to see the vast grass in addition to trees is the stone, mound, a barren scene.
How can you not imagine that this is the place where most of the emperors from the Yongzheng Dynasty to the Xianfeng Dynasty dealt with the imperial government for five generations. The garden is a pleasant environment, beautiful scenery, set the world's beauty in one, the emperor here to read, poetry, enjoy the scenery, flowers, garden residence of the cozy life is the Qing dynasty emperors to deal with the chaos of the dynasty outside of the rare spirit of relaxation.
160 years ago, on October 18, the British and French forces broke into the Yuanmingyuan, the "Garden of Gardens" reputation of the Yuanmingyuan burned. Yuanmingyuan this miracle has disappeared. Hugo to Captain Butler's letter strongly condemned the Anglo-French allied forces burning Yuanming the bandit behavior. He wrote:
One day, two robbers from Europe broke into the Yuanmingyuan. One robber looted the property and the other set fire to it. It seemed that, having won, they were ready to steal. They looted the Yuanmingyuan on a large scale, and the loot was divided equally between the two victors. ...... The treasures of all the great cathedrals of Europe put together might not be worth this marvelous and opulent museum in the East. There are not only art treasures there, but great piles of gold and silver. The bounty! A great harvest! Two victors, one stuffing his pockets, which is visible, the other filling his trunk. They returned to Europe arm in arm, smiling. This is the story of these two robbers.
He went on to write: will be sanctioned by history of these two robbers, one called France, the other called England ...... The French Empire swallowed half of the spoils of this victory, and today, the Empire is actually naive enough to think that it is the real owner of the property, bringing the rich and magnificent rags of the Yuanmingyuan for display. I hope that one day the liberated and clean France will return this booty to the plundered China, which is the real owner.
One of the pinnacles of Chinese courtyard gardens is the Yuanmingyuan, but this top garden was destroyed by the British and French forces with a fire in 1860, which was definitely a very heavy blow for China. Because of its poor financial resources, the Tongzhi Emperor later restored the Yuanmingyuan to only about 13 attractions. When the Eight-Power Allied Forces captured Beijing, they also looted and burned down the Yuanmingyuan, and the 13 sites restored to the Yuanmingyuan were destroyed, and the Yuanmingyuan could never be restored. The famous American writer Mark Twain once said Twain, once said: These are the people who squat in the dark for a long time, he even said there are some missionaries also involved in the robbery.
In the West, there are also righteous people like Hugo and Mark Twain, who also pointed out that this kind of banditry is wrong, especially the robbery, which is even more shameful. And the Yuanmingyuan has nothing to do with politics, it is entirely artistic, represents a civilization, is one of the highest embodiments of human civilization, the Yuanmingyuan is a spiritual wealth owned by mankind *** with, but was destroyed by a group of ignorant thugs in the West, which is not only the sadness of the Chinese people, but also the most tragic memory in the history of world civilization. Consumed more than a century, spent countless skilled craftsmen to build the gardens, buildings, treasures on the fire burned three days and three nights, everything was reduced to ashes, Hugo and other Western masters of this civilization was destroyed to issue a just and grieving voice, it can be seen that the burning of the Yuanmingyuan is the most horrible memory in the history of human civilization.
Some foreigners will think that the Oriental Palace of Versailles Western House is the Yuanmingyuan, due to the Western House is a large stone construction, so the Yuanmingyuan site remains only the Western House, and the rest of the Yuanmingyuan is a wooden structure, after the fire burned, after a period of time on the complete disappearance, only in the Western House there are still some residual vestiges can be seen. This is China's first large-scale imitation of European-style gardens, Western-style buildings and courtyards, enriching the Yuanmingyuan landscape and cultural connotations, adding exotic colors, so that the "Garden of Gardens" reputation more deserved.
The Xiyanglou is the first complete work with group scale since the European architecture spread to China in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties, and it is also the first creative attempt to combine the two architectural systems of the East and the West and the national forest system. The birth of the Xiyanglou prompted the emergence of more masonry imitation of Western-style buildings in China, and in the century since then, influenced a number of Chinese buildings with Baroque style, and even formed a new architectural style. After the Yuanmingyuan robbery, Chinese garden architecture almost nothing left, and Western-style buildings because of the masonry structure as the main body, relatively resistant to preservation, so it became the entire Yuanmingyuan site architecture remains the most places.
I stood in front of these broken walls, imagining its majestic appearance, heart pounding. Yuanmingyuan site is the Western powers oppression, enslavement of the Chinese nation's strong evidence, is a symbol of China's modern history of humiliation. Yuanmingyuan Park, is the Chinese people cherish and care of human cultural heritage, call and love the symbol of peace, is to promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, reflecting the soft power of China's culture, carry forward the important brand of excellent Chinese culture.
A history of the rise and fall of the Yuanmingyuan proves from one side that only the prosperity and stability of the country can make the Chinese nation stand in the forest of the world's peoples. When the country's political, economic and cultural development at the forefront of the world, our forefathers created a unique "Garden of the Garden", creating China and the world's greatest civilization; and when the country's political, economic and cultural development is seriously lagging behind, a generation of the Garden was destroyed under the fire of the invaders, our civilization by the barbaric hegemonists. destroyed.
For 160 years, the ruins of the Yuanmingyuan have existed in its own unique image. It is not that the country does not have the money to rebuild it, but the ruins and the ruins are much better than creating a fake Yuanmingyuan to feel the sadness of history and the weather that the motherland has experienced. This extremely vivid, visual and intuitive patriotism textbook, not only has a deep cultural value, but also has a huge political and emotional value, so that we come to visit the people are full of tears, heart pounding.
She has always inspired the people of the country to go forward, forge ahead; she has always signaled the people of the country to forget the shame of the country, bearing in mind that "corruption is bound to lag behind", "backwardness will be beaten" this painful lesson; she has always reminded us not to imperialism, the illusion that they siege our wolves, and the people of the world, the people of the world, the people of the world, the people of the world. She always reminds us not to have illusions about the imperialists, they surrounded our ambition is not going to change, friends come with good wine, jackals come with shotguns, we have to throw away illusions, always be ready to return the enemy's fire.
In addition to the ruins of the Xiyanglou, Yuanmingyuan and other parks are much the same, long pavilions, ginkgo boulevard, weeping willows, gardens, sand gulls on the lake, Kam Scales swimming, a variety of birds to show their provocative gestures, the water on the water surface of the ducks across the surface of the water flooded with a long strip of water waves, walk in the Yuanmingyuan, recalling its hundreds of years of history, by the flourishing of a time to a piece of rubble, so that the human heart sadness and sighs, however, the beauty of being in the nature. The Garden is a beautiful place to enjoy the beauty of nature. The rebirth of the Yuanmingyuan to a new attitude to meet all the guests, glowing with a different kind of vitality and vigor.