Last night, I watched the big documentary Yuanmingyuan by myself. Digital technology makes this familiar ruined garden lifelike, exquisite, beautiful and amazing.
Yuanmingyuan, I will feel a little happy when the syllable of this word comes out from my lips and teeth. This word is holding such a beautiful memory.
The original memory of Yuanmingyuan has been blurred. What impressed me more was riding with my uncle and aunt in junior high school. It was a beautiful autumn day. The sun was shining and the sky was as blue as a plateau. The ruins of Dashuifa and related buildings seem to be covered with a layer of golden light. Perhaps life at that time was being gilded by youth? We took a lot of photos in ginkgo forest and birch forest next to Dashuifa.
In high school, my best high school classmates and I rode from the east of Beijing to Yuanmingyuan in the northwest corner. There was no charge at that time. I remember we were boating in Fuhai, and my paddle picked up a big fish on the boat. We both laughed and were very happy. We also visited Liu Hezhen Jun's cemetery. In a field of weeds, people live not far away.
After I went to college, I went to Yuanmingyuan more often, because Yuanmingyuan is almost the back garden of my school. I remember that at the beginning of school, Yuanmingyuan held a large-scale garden party at night. In order to avoid tickets, we slipped to the small door on the west side, met the handsome guys in the flag class and their families, and then slipped in.
After four years in college, I went to Yuanmingyuan more often, which is the most suitable place for walking in love season.
I go there less often after work, maybe two or three times in this decade! Later, many new buildings were built there and tickets became more and more expensive. How long will it last? Has it been five years since the last time?
I wrote these personal experiences carelessly because I am familiar with and even appreciate the desolation there. But I never imagined it to be brilliant. Facing those lakes, broken bridges, ruins and weeds, I can't imagine its glory and glory. Just like facing an old woman in her twilight years, in her vicissitudes of life wrinkles, I can't imagine her youthful demeanor of "soft hands, solidified skin, smart smile and beautiful eyes". Watching "Burning Yuanmingyuan" starring Liu Xiaoqing more than 20 years ago did not connect the scenes in the film with the ruins of reality.
Last night, Yuanmingyuan showed me the absolute beauty of the old woman when she was young, and I was deeply shocked.
This film begins from the perspective of Italian missionary Lanzinin. After he arrived in China, he hoped that Emperor Kangxi would appreciate his western oil painting techniques. In order to please the emperor, he drew a grandson of Kangxi. As a result, the emperor saw it and said, "This painting is just a child, and there is no artistic conception." Ran Ning spent seven years learning China's painting skills, and began his career as a royal painter who served the three generations of Yong and Gan for 50 years.
Yuanmingyuan was the emperor's departure from the palace with Changchun Garden as the main body before Kangxi died. Because the Manchu people did not adapt to the hot climate after entering the customs, the Forbidden City was extremely uninhabitable. Kangxi built Changchun Garden in the northwest corner of Beijing, which is called Haidian because of its many lakes. Under the careful arrangement of the emperor's fourth son, Yin Zhen, Kangxi first met his 12-year-old grandson, Li Hong, in a garden in the west of Changchun Garden, the predecessor of Yuanmingyuan. He appreciated Li Hong's wisdom very much and solved the problem of the ownership of the throne from another angle.
It is precisely because of this complex that Yongzheng and Qianlong spared no effort to build Yuanmingyuan after they ascended the throne. Especially during the Qianlong period, the wealth of the empire occupied 1/3 of the world, and the population also occupied 1/3. Qianlong regarded himself as a powerful country in China and set an example for people all over the world. He heard that the French king Versailles had a big water law, so he ordered Ranzining to build a west garden in the east of the whole garden, and there must be a big water law.
The restoration of the garden took ten years. On the day of completion, the royal family and ministers came to visit in an endless stream, amazed. Qianlong gave this garden to ChristianRandPhillips, the daughter of a tribal leader who made great contributions in quelling Junggar rebellion. Tens of thousands of people have worked hard for more than ten years, consuming huge wealth from the state treasury. In the end, it is just a gift from the emperor to his woman.
Digital technology is used in many places in the film to restore the original appearance of Yuanmingyuan in its heyday.
Finally, regarding the burning of Yuanmingyuan, the film also uses a rational and objective analysis, which is different from the previous anger.
Judging from the achievements of human civilization, I deplore the destruction of this garden. But from another point of view, this garden is the epitome of China's feudal thought in 2000, which reflects the feudal emperors' efforts to be a feudal literati, collecting rare treasures and precious calligraphy and paintings of the country, including the form of national architectural gardens, and trying to make the country poor. This garden is extravagant, which violates the sum of heaven and earth and may be doomed to its demise?
I saw a paragraph in the blog "Aegean Home" on the Internet: Just like the poet Paul? Valerie once said, "Our civilization, as we all know now, will die." We can accept the disappearance of the Alexander Lighthouse and the Colossus of Rhode Island in the earthquake, the nothingness of the hanging gardens in history, the disintegration of Zeus in the fire, and finally the destruction of Yuanmingyuan. It is true that everything has a beginning and an end, but many times, we don't want to see such an ending.