Due to the complicated judgment of the' cultural relics' in Yuanmingyuan, and the long-term confusion about the knowledge and understanding of the scattered cultural relics in Yuanmingyuan, a large number of non-Yuanmingyuan old collections have been wrongly described as scattered cultural relics in Yuanmingyuan.
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Yuanmingyuan once had the reputation of "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens", but it went through many hardships.
1August 860, British and French forces invaded Beijing and went straight to Yuanmingyuan. After the cultural relics in the park were looted, the British commander Erjin ordered the burning of Yuanmingyuan. 1900, Eight-Nation Alliance invaded and Yuanmingyuan was destroyed again. After the Revolution of 1911, warlords, bureaucrats and politicians stole a large number of cultural relics in the park. During the Cultural Revolution, many stones were lost in the garden.
After more than 100 years of man-made destruction, no one can tell exactly how many Yuanmingyuan cultural relics are scattered outside. Every palace and garden in the Qing Dynasty originally had a "display record" to register the furniture, wall pendants, antiques and antiques in each room, but the "display record" of Yuanmingyuan has never been found.