End of the year went to Beijing act had to suffer 30 years of rare cold, snow for several days long. Chiba lunch that day, in the face of the snow outside the window, when suddenly an impulse, like to visit Summer Palace.
Almost all attractions in Beijing, near the Forbidden City, much of the Xiangshan, Badaling, and so on, as early as more than 20 years ago, with a summer and five dollars a bus pass, they viewed one by one, so in later the years, although dozens of times to Beijing, but he has not Tap Pro to those spots. However, is this still not let me forget even the Yuanmingyuan. In those days, people are busy with leaders of the non-merits and demerits, attend to tidy up the garden, and therefore did not open, in my recollection, the Summer Palace became the scenery of hearsay.
For the Summer Palace, was originally to understand in this area. The Five Dynasties and Qing Dynasty emperors attracted to create a battalion of the Royal Court, was built in 1709, Emperor Kangxi, from the Summer Palace, Changchun Park, Yee Spring Garden composed of three parks, covering about 350 hectares, is to artificially create a spectacular, beautiful scenery large-scale landscape garden, but also a rich collection of the Royal Museum. Surface of the water park 40% of the total area the size of the water stream in conjunction with the circulation of the rivers and lakes into a complete water system. Infix stack size of the garden soil Hill, leave the Rock Hill, Block 250, and water combination of smoke as the water the whole garden Jiangnan blurred. Unfortunately, in October 1860 by the British and French allied forces burning robbed an empty, after the Boxer Rebellion, and will again be warlords, bandits damage. The beauty of the past no longer exist, leaving future generations only in ruins. Yuanmingyuan great influence not because of its treasures, but its powers, the prima facie evidence of being trampled on in history.
The way to the Summer Palace, the snow did not stop, sporadic snow hit your face, was covered in Qin reveals a cold. Into the Summer Palace's main entrance, west across the small courtyard, is the first of the Chinese Room Rinpu scenery. At this point, the stone paths along the side of the pool, facing the Binghan-on, across such a masterpiece of frost. Water is Bai Yingying, the mountains and rocks are Bai Yingying, and not to mention those ice hanging on the eaves, and even then hanging in switchgrass, but also filled with snow embroidered velvet. Regardless of wherever, make many people feel a cold wind is cold, stone cold, the water depths of those dry reed is cold, only our breathing inside Teng some mist, which seems to confirm this in the Yuanmingyuan is still alive.
After a closer look and found Yuanmingyuan little imagination and the heart compared to the original is, indeed, some of the gap. The emperor's back garden is not as elegant as imagined beautiful, is not really what the macro length films, such as Jiangnan style scenery and a mixture of Western scenery, the smell somewhat counterfeit. The construction of such a garden to the south of the waterscape moved and did not like to Jiangnan style, South Orange Hovenia like. Cost versus the construction of this garden, it must have possession of the emperor who plundered treasure to enjoy, or to the southern air flow attachment, or a kind of greedy. Culture, such Royal courtyard, retaining a Summer Palace has been sufficient. The two gardens, one south and one north, one complete, one incomplete, and for mapping, some may complement each other by.
I remember going to Shanghai in 1982, a meeting, we had room in Anhui Province with the same arguments over peer-Summer Palace. At that time China has been raised to repair the Summer Palace, but when national power is not strong. However, is not to repair the Yuanmingyuan is endless dispute. Said the repair, meaning that this is a treasure of Chinese culture and mass entertainment areas; say no repair, then no need to say, should focus the money on construction. Wolia dispute was blushing, I insisted on the latter, he insisted on the former, no one has to convince who they let the matter rest. Today, the twinkling of an eye for over 20 years, time flies do not drown the scenes. Visit the Summer Palace, and read the pile had been sadly long chaos stone, but also a clear idea, which Yuanmingyuan only protected from having to rebuild.
History can not be repaired. There is now a masterpiece of the modern garden, such as the tea brew a hundred times, without the slightest taste. "Dream of Red Mansions" Grand View Garden inside the how, it was envisaged that very well received at both Grand View Garden repair a result, visitors do not buy it, even on the "Dream of Red Mansions," the obsession for this very dull Guawei lame to follow suit. There are fancy, "Journey to the West", and engage in a bit Havoc in Heaven, in the end really has become a farce. I think, is to rebuild the Great Wall together, Longkou has been revised from the old to the Jiayuguan, and even spend more modern building materials, Tim will not be what the final taste, will let people off-putting. That's the way, the original nature of things, do not hard to create something new and change in mind. If so bent on doing, it will be counterproductive. Imagine, if the ancient Roman Colosseum has long been one with the shiny new marble repair up, there was ash Pang times while helping out the city, but also to restore its once prosperous city in history, scenes, history Then there is the unique charm do?
Now, the fix is not what has been difficult to Yuanmingyuan, and senses that we can create magnetic levitation train arrogant, repair, Yuanmingyuan but Tannangquwu general. Shenzhen is not built many large buildings do? Such as Window of the World, Splendid China, Folk Village and the future of the world can be a class of large-scale landscape construction won, repair Yuanmingyuan be overemphasized. If our mind is to simply add a couple of recreational attractions, in order to people's entertainment, it lost its original meaning of repairing the Yuanmingyuan. Summer Palace in order to fix what I am afraid this is not a simple problem.
Repair park for many reasons, not repair park there are many reasons, but one of the most real. People, the most ugly is a good forget the pain of the scars. Yuanmingyuan repaired, it is no longer the face of a devastated, but the peacefulness of the scene, then, who control his British and French troops, or how the burning and looting of the Boxer Rebellion, who Gude Shang ask that part of history ? The Summer Palace that was preserved, and anyway, in Chinese eyes is a red alert. Face painting run-down of the scene, like waiting for a bleeding wound, it will remind us of those forgetful people, in the toast of the red and green lights while to pay, but also some worried feeling.
Summer Palace burned, smashed, robbed, indeed regrettable that the remaining monuments to be carefully protected, but the face of such defective vision is only resentment aggressors is not enough. The country who will bully the weak. Burned the Summer Palace, though it is sad is that some unfortunate and a garden can be worth how much? Recall that the late Qing period, the country is aggression, people have been devastated and their loved ones brutally burning, would not do even more heartache. The corruption of the Qing Dynasty weak powers of aggression is bound to suffer, resulting in death the country seen their homes destroyed. Like this decadent dynasty, not to mention the forces of eight gunboats, and to that time, perhaps the place to which a peasant uprising, you can put the Qing dynasty, the so-called burn a gray. On this point, but added that we should always be vigilant.
(December 18, 2002)
Author: wangzc
