The Forty-seventh Year of Kangxi: the Collapse of the Anthill of the Heyday
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On July 29, 2008, the Jiuzhou Scenic Area, the core area of the Yuanmingyuan Heritage Park that had been silent for more than 300 years, finally revealed its mysterious face to the world. Europeans who had witnessed the grace and splendor of this garden praised it as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens" and said that the magnificent scene in the garden was difficult to describe in words and unbelievable. However, the wanton destruction by the British and French forces 148 years ago turned this mythical garden into ruins. This goes back 160 years - 300 years ago - to the forty-seventh year of Kangxi (1708). At that time, the Old Summer Palace was still on the drawing board. Kangxi and his ministers were having a heated discussion, and they were red-faced. Finally, a consensus was reached the next year, and construction of the Old Summer Palace started. It took six generations of emperors and more than 150 years to build this royal garden covering an area of 350 hectares and containing more than 160 scenic spots in the northwest suburbs of Beijing.
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