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He rescued precious architectural drawings when the Old Summer Palace's burned | China Documentary

#history #china #royal #architecture In the last days of China’s Qing Dynasty (1644-1911), the fate of the Yangshi Lei – a line of royal architects – hung by a thread. Just as the family’s fifth generation, Lei Jingxiu, took leadership of imperial projects, foreign armies began to arrive, and Beijing’s Old Summer Palace was burned to the ground. As his world crumbled, Lei made a daring attempt to rescue precious architectural drawings from the flames. ▶▶Subscribe to China Documentary: https://bit.ly/31ODgus ▶Yangshi Lei:    • 20,000 archives saved by the legendary fam...   Click to Watch More: ✪Blossom Matters:    • Stunning! It turns out that these flowers ...   ✪Jiayuguan of the Hexi Corridor:    • Why did the 1st emperor of the Ming Dynast...   ✪Original Taste of Ulanqab:    • This Ulanqab speciality will overthrow all...   ✪Diving Deep:    • Chinese submarine explores unknown seabed ...   ✪Endless Fields of Gold:    • Is China crazy? Setting the goal of produc...