The war of history has turned the Old Summer Palace into wreckage, but the remnants are still there, and history is still there. Let us feel the humiliating history from these wreckage, reflect on today, look forward to the future, cherish peace, and create a better tomorrow together.
The ruins of the Old Summer Palace are still owned by the Xunqing royal family after the establishment of **, and the Qing House of Internal Affairs has an official position in the garden, but these ** do not participate in the management, and the actual management power belongs to the secretary of the Old Summer Palace, which is responsible for a chief eunuch.
There are still many precious cultural relics on the site, including broken walls, bricks and tiles, and rockery stone carvings. However, these artifacts have since suffered severe damage and looting.
Yandu Daily once recorded that some of the Taihu stones in the garden were moved to a private garden outside the Xibian Gate to be used as a set. The warlord Cao Rulin ordered his subordinates to haul the Taihu Lake stones in the park, and took the stones between the two villages of Yuquan Mountain and Chuanying as their own and used them to build private houses.
After the Old Summer Palace was burned down by the British and French forces, although it was garrisoned by officers and soldiers, there were often garrisons and bandits who colluded to dismantle and sell bricks and stones without permission. According to the "Yellow Post", on November 10, 1919, Adjutant Guo of the 3rd Artillery Battalion and dozens of soldiers pulled bricks in the park.
At the same time, the Third Frontier Division of the Ministry of War also pulled away the bricks and stones of the Old Summer Palace many times. In addition, Jing Zhaoyin and the infantry commander Yamen even abused their power to rush the relics of the Old Summer Palace, such as from September 7 to October 13, 1922, Jing Zhaoyin hauled 222 cars of Taihu stones.
Although the official claims to protect the Old Summer Palace, the reality is that its insiders use their power to act privately and damage the country's cultural heritage. This is not only a trampling on history, but also an insult to the national spirit.
We should strengthen the supervision and punishment of these acts, protect our cultural heritage, and let future generations enjoy these precious historical relics.
For a long time, it is not uncommon for local people to steal relics in the park, and various treasure theft cases occur frequently. For example, in 1919, Qin.
2. Yu Dehai, Song San and others stole 132 city bricks, 17 square bricks, 140 yellow-green glazed tiles, 32 white marble piers, 6 white marble, 4 Shanzi stones and 18 slate stones.
These acts of vandalism and theft have deeply distressed the general public, but under the corrupt and incompetent rule of Beiyang**, people are unable to make effective changes. Therefore, some people of insight have proposed that the cultural relics of the site be removed for protection.
At that time, Shejitan was being developed into a park, and the board of directors of the park through the Ministry of Internal Affairs transported some Taihu Lake stones from the Old Summer Palace to the park as rockeries, and some rockeries in Zhongshan Park were made of these stones from the Old Summer Palace.
In addition, several stone pillars engraved with the "Orchid Pavilion Preface" were also transported to the park to increase the ornamental scenery of the scenery.
In 1915, the Zhengyang Gate repair project was nearing completion, in order to add scenery, it was planned to erect a pair of stone lions on the east and west roads north of Zhengyang Tower and in front of Zhengyang Gate, and at the same time, many pairs of stone lions were also planned to be erected on both sides of the stone stairs on the north side of the arrow tower.
Through the Ministry of the Interior, the Zhengyangmen Engineering Agency transported a pair of stone unicorns and a pair of stone lions from the Old Palace of the Old Palace to Zhengyangmen to enhance its magnificence.
* In the early years, Xinhua Gate, as the main gate of the ** mansion, underwent large-scale renovation and painting, and the stone lion seat in front of the door was also moved from the Old Summer Palace. In addition, Tsinghua University, Yenching University, etc., also used a large number of stones, bricks and timber from the Old Summer Palace in the process of building schools.
Although these units embezzled the relics of the Old Summer Palace, after all, these belongings did not fall into the hands of individuals, and a number of valuable cultural relics were preserved.
The Old Summer Palace, known as a rare garden in the world and a treasure house of China's historical relics, has been burned by imperialism several times, and now only a pile of ruins remains; And these remnants of the ruins were so destroyed by the Beiyang warlords, it is simply outrageous!