How many ancient buildings have been demolished in China? More specifically,

Except for the buildings destroyed in the late Qing Dynasty and the Anti-Japanese War, most important ancient buildings were demolished after the founding of New China.

Among them, the ancient buildings in Beijing were demolished the most, which is of course related to Beijing being the capital in the Yuan, Ming and Qing Dynasties.

First, in the early 1950s, in Beijing, the ancient city walls, many arched buildings, the most representative old Beijing city gates, famous houses and former residences that were not destroyed by the British and French allied forces, Eight-Nation Alliance and the Japanese were demolished by Premier Zhou with the words "the sunset was infinitely beautiful and was buried in the coming night", completely ignoring the protests of many scholars and literati at that time.

The surviving old city of Beijing, in the next wave of breaking the capitalism, was unfortunately destroyed even worse by the "guardians". Those ancient bricks of the Ming Dynasty with a history of hundreds of years built factories and bomb shelters.