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Yuanming Yuan, known as the Old Summer Palace, was the great imperial palace-garden complex on the northwestern outskirts of Beijing.
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It was renowned for its beauty and luxury.
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With the combination of the essence of Chinese traditional architecture with a western architectural look, Yuanming Yuan had the most
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magnificent landscape in the world. However, what took nearly 150 years to build and consumed countless wealth and manpower was looted
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and burned by the Allied French and British Forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War. For days the Allied French and British Forces loot-
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ed the rich treasures of the palace, and then in order to conceal their crime, they put every structure to torch.