150th anniversary commemoration of the victims Yuanmingyuan

       Luo Gan

 Recently, the Yuanmingyuan Park, located west of Beijing, is being held a Cultural Festival to celebrate the Chinese traditional Mid-Autumn festival. The park pedestrians, such as weaving, the scene enjoyable. But a few days, one would change the atmosphere, because this year is the Summer Palace just killed the 150th anniversary of October 18, 1860, soldiers of the British and French troops burst into royal garden of Qing Empire. Chinese people usually high the intense importance of history, in particular grieve at the modern history since the Opium War, so it will conduct a series of commemorative activities. 
    Earlier this year, China Heritage Fund with the Yuanmingyuan Administration jointly held a "heritage, we work together —large public events of Conservation Yuanmingyuan" and assumed part of the damaged Yuanmingyuan relics protection and restoration, to make them to reproduce the historical reality. 
    A commemoration of the most important sites in the flood method of organizing, a theme party, the party will adopt the "dialogue of civilizations: Dreaming of Yuanmingyuan", "Century Symphony: profound changes," "Golden Age of the Renaissance: Harmony sail "three chapters, to represent 300 years of great changes of Yuanmingyuan. 
    In addition, it introduces the Yuanmingyuan Administration and Publicity Department, France-China Friendship Association will donate the Yuanmingyuan Administration, Mr. Victor Hugo • statue. Hugo statue will be placed in front of Yuanmingyuan Western, copy ratio of 1 to 1. The "French Shakespeare," said Hugo, in "Letter To Captain Bartlett" in denouncing the British and French forces a robber, condemned them to destruction of the oriental culture crime.