大学生英语演讲-圆明园遗迹.ppt

* * The Ruins of Yuanmingyuan 文秘1111 吴嘉露 As you know,Yuanmingyuan was ever a royal garden.It was very large and gallant.What was different to most of other ancient Chinese garden,Yuanmingyuan was in western style. Yuanmingyuan was built in 1703,and completed in 1792. It was made up with Yuanmingyuan,Changchunyuan and Wanchunyuan.There were more than 100 sights and it occupied 160,000 square meters. More interesting is, was built in the western garden yuanmingyuan scenic spot. The most famous wonder, is a western fountain In Emperor Qianlong year, when the Lantern Festival was coming, Emperor Qianlong would sat in the gloriette(亭子) and there was a big maze around him. Then when someone said ”Start!”, four ladies-in-waiting were running fast to the gloriette from four directions at the same time, because the one who arrive first would acquire an abundant rewards. So I thought it was an interesting custom in Yuanmingyuan. array labyrinth and circle million Then, on October 6th in 1860, combinted armies of English and Franch were coming. They brought many guns, grenades and many other advanced weapons. They rushed to Yuanmingyuan, and robbed everything valuable. They put them in many cars and took them away. If something was too large to take, they would destroy it. What’s more, they fire Yuanmingyuan three days! So, Yuanmingyuan was destroied seriously. No sight was complete. The gallant royal garden change to ruins in three days. But Emperor Xianfeng had run away. *