The Imperial Gardens By Victor Hugo - 893 Words

The Old Summer Palace, known in Chinese as Yuanming Yuan. Emperor Kangxi named the garden as Old Summer Palace. The first â€Å"yuan† means round, which hints the hoping to be a perfect person that like a round, without a gap. Ming imply the wish that to govern the dynasty and politic bright and clear. It was originally called the Imperial Gardens and located in western suburbs of Beijing China. I will introduce this famous Chinese great art because it described by Victor Hugo as â€Å"dazzling cavern of human fantasy with the face of a temple and palace† (Jenkins, 2016) Throwback to the Qing Dynasty, during summer, emperor Qing moved to here to avoid the heat. This is the reason that emperor Qing named it Summer Palace. The old Summer Palace†¦show more content†¦During the period of emperor Jiaqing ascended the throne, the Old Summer Palace was repaired and upgraded. During the period that Daoguang emperor wielded power, the dynasty was declining, and the nati onal treasury was not enough. However, the emperor still put money into building the Old Summer Palace. Unfortunately, the catastrophe came. In 1856, with the support by the Tsarist Russia and the United States, British and French jointly launched the second opium war. On October 6, 1860, troops broke into the Old Summer Palace and looted valuable relics inside. The ransacking continues till the second day. The world was sad about the destroy, as Victor Hugo wrote,† Two robbers breaking into a museum, devastating, looting and burning, leaving laughing hand-in-hand with their bags full of treasures; one of the robbers is called France and the other Britain.† (pg184, Ming, 2012) The troops robbed frantically and vandalized the Old Summer Palace because they wanted the Qing government sign files to accept the terms and conditions that unfair to Qing government. The beautiful great garden was devastated after the two-days loot. Three days later, on October 11, 1860, the British ransacked the Old Summer Palace again. The most sorrowful thing is British lieutenant, Mitchell led 3,500 cavalries into the Old Summer Palace, set the Old Summer Palace on fire on October 18, 1860. After the 3-days fire, the world-beater garden masterpieceShow MoreRelatedArt History Study Guide3003 Words   |  13 Pages–Aphrodite of Melos * Epigonos –Gallic Chieftain Killing His Wife and Himself; Dying Gaul * Hagesandros –[and Polydoros, Athanadoros] Laocoon and His Sons * S Chapter 10 China * 6 Dynasties (220-579) * Gu Kaizhi – Imperial Instructress to Court Ladies * Wang Xizhi –Letter Feng Ju album * Song (960-1279) * Fan Kuan –Travelers Among Mtns and Streams * Xia -12 Views from a Thatched Hut * Xu Daoning –Fishing in a Mtn Stream Read MoreOne Significant Change That Has Occurred in the World Between 1900 and 2005. Explain the Impact This Change Has Made on Our Lives and Why It Is an Important Change.163893 Words   |  656 Pageshad been based on the exploitation of indigenous labor and precious minerals in the highlands of the hemisphere, and of African slaves and cash crops in its tropical islands and coastal lowlands. Peru and Mexico were the jewels of the Spanish imperial crown. Saint-Domingue and Barbados were two of the rich- WORLD MIGRATION IN THE LONG TWENTIETH CENTURY †¢ 27 est spots on the planet, worth much more to their French and British colonial masters than the vast expanses of Louisiana, Anglo