Today, let's discuss how brilliant Yuanmingyuan, the peak of human history and architectural technology, is.
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The destruction of Yuanmingyuan is shocking. How brilliant was the heyday? How brilliant was Yuanmingyuan, the Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens? In short, it is the crown of royal gardens in ancient and modern China and abroad! Yuanmingyuan Garden, also known as Yuanming Three Gardens, consists of Yuanmingyuan Garden, Changchun Garden and Wanchun Garden. With a building area of 200,000 square meters, 150 scenery, it is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".
Yuanmingyuan was originally a gift from Emperor Kangxi to his fourth son, Yin Zhen. Yuanmingyuan ",the name was named by Emperor Kangxi. Above the gate of Yuanmingyuan, there is a three-character plaque of Emperor Kangxi's imperial book. After Emperor Qianlong succeeded to the throne, he adjusted the landscape of 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. At that time, there were about 600 plaques hanging in the main garden buildings, which was the highest among the royal gardens in ancient and modern times.
In its heyday, Yuanmingyuan was also the Royal Botanical Garden, which was a rare zoo at that time. In addition to 100 kinds of native flowers and trees, more than 20 kinds of flowers and trees, such as plum blossom and banana in the south of the Yangtze River, Aohan lotus in the north of Saibei, golden lotus in Wutai Mountain, mulberry in Xinjiang, Persian peach in South Asia, mimosa in the west, and countless rare animals, have been introduced and cultivated.
In addition, Yuanmingyuan is also a treasure house, and it was also the largest royal museum and art gallery in the world at that time, with many treasures, books and artistic masterpieces. There are famous calligraphy and painting, secret house classics, Zhong Ding treasures, gold and silver jewelry and other precious cultural relics, which condense the essence of ancient culture. It was called "the model of ideal and art" by the French writer Hugo.
Yuanmingyuan, which was founded in the Qing Dynasty, has been operating for over 50 years. It was once famous for its grand geographical scale, outstanding architectural skills, exquisite architectural landscape, rich cultural collection and profound national cultural connotation, and was praised as "a model of all gardening arts" and "a model of ideals and art" by French writer victor hugo.