2. In the third year of Yongzheng (1725), Yong Zhengdi (namely Emperor Sejong of the Qing Dynasty, Yin Zhen) built an additional palace office in the south of Yuanmingyuan, with an area of more than 3000 mu from the original 600 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.
3. 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. These three gardens are managed by the management minister of Yuanmingyuan, and are called Yuanming Three Gardens. In addition, with the joint efforts of Lang Shining, Wang Zhicheng and Michel Benoist, the West Building Scenic Area, which combines Chinese and Western styles, was built in the north of Changchun Garden. Yuanmingyuan also pioneered China's integration of western garden art into the classical royal gardens in China.
4. In August of the tenth year of Xianfeng (1860), the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing. On October 6th, 65438/kloc-0, Yuanmingyuan was occupied. From the next day, the officers and men began to rob and destroy crazily. In order to force the Qing government to accept peace conditions as soon as possible, British Minister Erkin and British Commander Grant ordered Lieutenant General Mitchell to lead more than 3,500 invading troops to Yuanmingyuan in June+65,4381October+August, 5438, and set them on fire. The fire lasted for three days and nights.
5. During the Tongzhi period (1862- 1874), the Tongzhi emperor prepared to restore the Yuanmingyuan for the Empress Dowager Cixi to live in. Later, due to financial difficulties, it was forced to stop work and rebuild other buildings. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing, and the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed again. After the demise of the Qing Dynasty, some warlords, politicians and bureaucrats stole the building materials of Yuanmingyuan, and the site of Yuanmingyuan was further destroyed.
6. In the early years of the Republic of China, warlords who changed like lanterns regarded Yuanmingyuan as an inexhaustible building material field. There are many helpless records in the archives of Puyi period: "Soldiers ride bicycles to haul Taihu Stone 10 vehicles in the park every day." In fact, the situation of dismantling and selling is far more serious than that recorded in the file. Xu Shichang demolished the timber of Ming and Jing Spring Gardens in Yuanmingyuan, and Wang Huaiqing demolished the wall of Anyou Palace and the stone of the west building in the garden. Since then, everything that can be used as building materials in Yuanmingyuan ruins, from square bricks, roof tiles, wall bricks and stone strips on the ground to underground wooden nails, stakes and copper pipes, has been collected and pulled intermittently for more than 20 years! During the Japanese occupation period after 1940, Beijing was short of food, so it was rewarded for land reclamation. Since then, farmers have successively entered the park to fill the lake in Pingshan and open up wasteland to grow rice. Yuanmingyuan, a painstaking effort in the early Qing Dynasty 150 years of victory over lakes and mountains, is beyond recognition.
7. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the management office of 1976 Yuanmingyuan was formally established, and great progress was made in site protection and landscaping, and the surrounding area of Xiyang Building was partially cleaned and arranged. 1983, the Master Plan of Beijing Urban Construction approved by the State Council clearly designated Yuanmingyuan as a ruins park. In the same year, the Beijing Municipal Government allocated special funds to repair the 2,300-meter fence on the northeast and south sides of Changchun Garden. 1984 65438+February, decoration of Fuhai started, which lasted for 7 months. 1985 In the winter, the landscape system of Qichun Garden was renovated, which was completed in the early summer of the following year. And build garden roads, bridges and culverts and garden service facilities, clean up ancient building bases, and carry out greening and beautification. The Yinghai Xianshan Pavilion, Xidaoyuan, Fuhai Center, the new palace gate of Qichun Garden and the flower array of the Western Tower in Yaotai East Island of Pengdao have all been restored in the original site. After two years of renovation, it was officially opened to the public on June 29th. 1988.
8. After 1990 and 1993 land expropriation, Yuanmingyuan Ruins Park recovered all the land use rights of Yuanmingyuan in its heyday. 1988 65438+1October 5th, Yuanmingyuan site was announced as a national cultural relics protection unit. 1988 65438+1October 13 has been designated as a national key cultural relics protection unit. In the same year, the ruins park was opened for trial. In 2000, the master plan of Yuanmingyuan was officially approved by National Cultural Heritage Administration, and the special plan for the protection of Yuanmingyuan site was approved.
9.20081October 20th, 165438 passed the 4A scenic spot evaluation of National Tourism Administration. 201012 won one of the "New Sixteen Scenes of Beijing" and became one of the latest 16 business cards representing the charm of Kyoto.