The full text is: somewhere in the world, there is a world miracle, which is called Yuanmingyuan. Art has two origins: one is ideal, which produces European art; One is fantasy, which produces oriental art. Yuanmingyuan's position in fantasy art is the same as that of the Parthenon in ideal art, which is almost the achievement of a superhuman nation's imagination. This is not a rare and unique work like the Parthenon; If there is a fantasy model, it is a huge fantasy model. Please imagine that there are buildings that can't be described in words, and there is a building like the moon. This is the Yuanmingyuan. Please make a dream. The materials are marble, jade, bronze, porcelain and cedar. The beam of this dream is covered with jewels and satin from top to bottom. A temple is built here, a harem is built there, and a tower is built, in which gods are placed and animals are placed, decorated with glass, enamel, gold and gold powder. Ask an architect who is also a poet to build Arabian Nights. Together with flocks of swans, ibis and peacocks, in a word, this is a dazzling abode of fairies and immortals created by human whimsy, with the appearance of temples or palaces. This is the garden. In order to create Yuanmingyuan, it took two generations of long-term labor. This building as big as a city was built from generation to generation. For who? For the people of all countries. Because what time has achieved belongs to mankind. Artists, poets and philosophers used to know Yuanmingyuan. Voltaire talked about Yuanmingyuan. We often say that Greece has the Parthenon, Egypt has the pyramids, Rome has the Colosseum, Paris has Notre Dame, and the East has the Yuanmingyuan. If we say that we have never seen it, we have dreamed of it. This was once a shocking and unknown masterpiece, faintly visible in the indescribable morning light, just like the silhouette of Asian civilization on the horizon of European civilization. This miracle has disappeared.

One day, two robbers entered the Yuanmingyuan. One robber ransacked it and another set fire to it. It seems that the goddess of victory may be a thief. Yuanmingyuan was destroyed on a large scale, which was shared by the two victors. We can see that the whole incident is also related to the name Elgin, which is bound to remind people of the Parthenon. What was done to the Parthenon in those days and what is done to Yuanmingyuan now is more thorough and beautiful, so that nothing is left. If all the treasures of all our cathedrals are added together, it can't compare with this magnificent museum in the East. There are not only artistic treasures in the garden, but also piles of gold and silver products. Great achievements, great gains. Two winners, one full of pockets, visible, one full of boxes; They returned to Europe arm in arm with a smile. This is the story of two robbers.

We Europeans, we are civilized people, and China people are barbarians to us. This is what civilization does to barbarism!

In the face of history, one of these two robbers will be called France and the other will be called England. I want to protest first, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to protest: treating people's crimes, not treating people's mistakes; The government may be a robber sometimes, but the people will never be.

The French Empire swallowed half the fruits of victory. Today, the empire showed the gorgeous rags of Yuanmingyuan with the innocence of some masters. I hope that one day, the liberated and clean France will return the stolen goods to the plundered China.

Now, I confirm that there has been a theft and there are two thieves. Victor Hugo 186 1 year165438+1October 25th lived in Gaocheng.