Who burned Yuanmingyuan?

a few years ago, there was a cross talk joke. The teacher asked, "Who burned Yuanmingyuan?" The student replied, "I didn't burn it." I didn't burn it anyway. " The teacher reflected this to the parents, and the student's mother said, "It was definitely not burned by our children. We can't blame this on us. " The student's father said, "If you burn it, it will burn. What a big deal! No, we will pay! "

This crosstalk shows that: 1. "Who burned Yuanmingyuan" is a question that school teachers often ask students. Second, many people really don't know who burned the Yuanmingyuan.

Yuanmingyuan was looted and burned by British and French allied forces in 186.

On October 6th, 186, the British and French allied forces attacked Deshengmen and Andingmen in Beijing, and the soldiers of Sengqin and Ruilin retreated to the Yuanmingyuan area one after another, so the British and French allied forces chased them to the Yuanmingyuan. The officers and men guarding the park were outnumbered and defeated. The French army first launched a robbery, and the British commander Grant approved the British army to enter the park. Allied soldiers plundered the treasures and furnishings in the garden. According to British officials' estimation afterwards, the value of cultural relics and treasures (gold, silver, precious stones, silks and satins, antique furnishings, etc.) plundered was as much as 6 million pounds, and the value of rare books, pagodas, porcelain, furniture, etc., which were destroyed because of ignorance of their value or inconvenience in handling, was similar.

Hugo, a French writer, once wrote: "One day, two robbers broke into Yuanmingyuan. One robber looted extensively and the other set fire to it. It turned out that' victory' meant that the two conquerors who robbed shared the stolen goods equally. One filled his pockets, the other filled his boxes, and then returned to Europe arm in arm with a smile. This is the experience of two robbers ... These two robbers, one is called France, and the other is called English. "

On January 16th, 27, Chewing on Words published the top ten Chinese mistakes in 26. The common mistakes in literature and history knowledge are: Eight-Nation Alliance burned Yuanmingyuan. In 19, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded Beijing and trampled on China's sovereignty. At that time, Yuanmingyuan was a deserted garden.

The famous great writer's "A Thousand Years' Sigh" even wrote: "What's more, in time, 8 days before the discovery of the Dunhuang Sutra Cave, Eight-Nation Alliance occupied Beijing and set fire to Yuanmingyuan, and Chinese civilization just suffered a great shame." It can be seen that the misconception that "Eight-Nation Alliance burned Yuanmingyuan" is "deeply rooted in people's hearts".

it was in 19 that Eight-Nation Alliance invaded China, and in 186, the Yuanmingyuan was burned by the British and French allied forces, with a difference of 4 years.