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June 10, 1960, the eight-nation allied forces launched a crazy war of aggression against China, they took what they could take away, can not take the camel pull; really can not take away, deliberately destroyed. After this war of aggression.

Over the centuries, generations of emperors and kings collected treasures, were robbed by the Eight-Power Allied Forces. The value of the things robbed by them is incalculable and even more incalculable. Even Wadesi, the commander-in-chief of the invading forces, said, "China's loss this time can never be estimated."

The national treasure, the Yongle Canon, was compiled by 2,169 people, ***22,877 volumes, divided into 11,915 books. At that time, the invading army came here and destroyed the national treasure "Yongle Dictionary" one by one. Some were used to pave the ground; some were used to pad guns; some were used as pillows; and some were used as mounting stones. Until now, Britain, France, the United States, Japan, major reading museums in the collection of "Yongle Dazhen" about 180 books.

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The Yuanmingyuan was burned down by the British and French allied forces in 1860, and the number of cultural relics looted was roughly estimated at about 1.5 million, ranging from bronze ritual objects of the pre-Qin and Qin eras to calligraphy and paintings of celebrities and all kinds of rare and exotic treasures of the Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties.

In 1900, the Eight-Power Allied Forces invaded Beijing, the western suburbs of the Royal Garden was again robbed. In the war period, and was damaged to varying degrees. Finally, in the "Cultural Revolution" period, the Yuanmingyuan also suffered some damage.

Burned after the Yuanmingyuan ruins after the founding of New China began to be protected, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Landscape Architecture in 1956 began to take measures to protect the planting of trees, the Yuanmingyuan ruins in 1976 with the establishment of the franchise. June 29, 1988, the Yuanmingyuan ruins to the community to open up.