Study On Qing Dynasty Of Tongzhi Period Repairs Old Summer Palace

Old Summer Palace gathers together the area located at Beijing western suburbs all previous dynasties botanical garden, Qing Dynasty constructs in the Kangxi 48 years in the Ming Dynasty waste garden foundation becomes. Yong Zheng time Old Summer Palace acquires the new scenic area, Emperor Qianlong the time regards as the most main palace garden unceasingly Old Summer Palace, in his long-time tenure in office, craved in expands Old Summer Palace, Old Summer Palace has achieved its heyday in this time. After Qianlong, Old Summer Palace's large-scale extension ended along with the national strength decline, even the basic maintenance cost was very continually difficult to maintain. In the second Opium War, the England and France Allied armies are buying the mouth to be defeated greatly by Qingjun, to retaliate Qing Dynasty, the England and France Allied armies intrude on Beijing, seizes Old Summer Palace.In order to give clear emperor in the spirit the attack, the British armed forces set on fire extremely barbarically in the Xianfeng ten year at the beginning of September fifth day date burn down Old Summer Palace. With burns down after England and France Allied armies' plundering, Old Summer Palace has encountered the serious destruction, is only because the Old Summer Palace scope is vast, but also some part escapes death by a hair's breadth, remains constructs 13, mostly is located at north Old Summer Palace the remote place. Tongzhi 12 year Tongzhi emperor personally guides the government into a new era, next year is also Cixi 40 birthdays, therefore Tongzhi emperor then repairs Old Summer Palace take the filial two palace queen mother as the issue imperial edict. The edict issued, encounters censor Shen Huai, to tour hundred Sichuan et al. the oppositions, Tongzhi emperor acts willfully, through reprimanding, the recall method executes one person as a warning to others, repairs the project official operation finally in Tongzhi 12 year in October eighth day date Old Summer Palace.Although the project plan is very great and detailed, but the project needs the expense and the material are actually the difficult problems which urgently awaits to be solved. The construction cost important source in nobles and ministers' contribution, might from Old Summer Palace begin to the work suspension, the official only to contribute 302,000 silvers, needed the expense with the project to compare, but the futile attempt, was unable fundamentally to solve the expense problem. Besides this, the material which the project needs similarly is also difficult to ask, particularly repairs the log which the Old Summer Palace project needs. Tongzhi emperor and the internal affairs government office official adopted each method to seek the log, but result and unsatisfactory. Moreover because sought for the project to need the log to cause Li Guangzhao the document occurrence, this document has caused the great unrest, opposed that repaired Old Summer Palace's call to surge upward once more. The Tongzhi 13 years on July 16, gong Crown Prince Luan unites other ministers to submit a written statement to Tongzhi emperor state one's case, forced Tongzhi emperor to stop finally building the project.