Yuanmingyuan – Ruins of the Old Summer Palace (圆明园)

Peking · China · Ruin · Grusel 3/5

When the 'Garden of Gardens' was burned in 1860, hundreds of palace servants died in the flames of the Anyou Hall – in the marble ruins the wind is still said to carry weeping.

Yuanmingyuan, the Old Summer Palace, was called the Garden of Gardens – the emperors' paradise of lakes, pavilions and European marble palaces. In October 1860 it was looted by British and French troops, who then put the entire estate to the torch as punishment of the imperial court. The fire burned for days. In the Anyou Hall, the palace's ancestral temple, some three hundred eunuchs, palace women and servants had barricaded themselves; they burned to the last soul. What remains today are soot-stained marble fragments of the European palaces, standing like gravestones over a vanished world. Visitors at dusk tell of weeping that rides the wind across the ruin field, of footsteps in the dry grass, and of the sense of being watched among the fallen columns – as if those who burned never left their master's garden.

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Yuanmingyuan – Ruins of the Old Summer Palace (圆明园) liegt in Peking, China.