In 20 10, Forbes magazine selected 14 as "the most beautiful university campus in the world", and Tsinghua University, China was the only Asian institution on the list. The architect spoke highly of her natural landscape and architecture with distinctive oriental traditional characteristics.
Tsinghua University campus is often called "Tsinghua campus", but strictly speaking, Tsinghua campus refers to a group of gardens with I-shaped halls as the main body in Qing Dynasty.
This group of gardens was built in the early18th century, belonging to the same period as the nearby Yuanmingyuan, and was once collectively called "Yuanming Five Gardens". Tsinghua Campus was originally part of Xichun Park, a villa of Emperor Kangxi in the suburbs of Beijing. During the Daoguang period, Xichun Garden was divided into East Garden and West Garden, of which the East Garden was Tsinghua Campus.
Miao Rixin, 1958, graduated from the Civil Engineering Department of Tsinghua University, and served as the director of the school's infrastructure planning department. After retirement, he devoted himself to the study of school history and gained many unknown and precious historical materials. Miao Rixin found that Tsinghua campus is not only the only well-preserved site among many royal gardens in the western suburbs of Beijing, but also the holy land of Chinese culture.
1860, the British and French allied forces invaded the capital and burned the Yuanmingyuan, and the Tsinghua campus survived.
/kloc-in 0/900, Tsinghua campus was reclaimed by the royal family and abandoned for a long time because of the Boxer Rebellion.
1908, the Chinese and American governments agreed to use the so-called "returned" "boxer indemnity" in the United States to establish the You Mei Graduate School, and the school site was chosen in Tsinghua campus.
1911On April 29th, Tsinghua School opened. This became the beginning of Tsinghua's school history.
During the period of War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression, Tsinghua campus was occupied by the Japanese army and was seriously damaged. 1946 10 June10, Tsinghua University was demobilized, which turned a new page in history. Three hundred years of ups and downs. This garden not only witnessed the rise and fall of a dynasty, but also witnessed the high morale of the students; She suffered aggression and humiliation, but in the end she was closely linked with the fate of national rejuvenation.