Remember the Old Summer Palace in the primary school text? It is known as the "garden of ten thousand gardens" by the world, and is praised as the "model of ideal and art" by the French writer Victor Hugo. As a world-famous royal garden, it has both national architecture and Western landscape; There are not only magnificent halls, but also exquisite pavilions and pavilions: there are imitations of various places of interest and poetic imagination...

In the first month of the 1st year of Qianlong (1736), the emperor ordered the palace painters Tang Dai and Shen Yuan to paint for the temples and places of the Old Summer Palace. After nine years, the painting of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace, which was painted on silk, finally came out. It shows 40 unique landscape groups including righteous and bright, diligent and virtuous, Kyushu Qingyan, and the moon opening clouds. Each painting is also attached with the Hongli poem of forty scenes written by Wang Youdun. After three years of mounting, this set of four earth landscapes was formally installed in the Fengsan unselfish Hall of the Yuanmingyuan in June of the 12th year of Qianlong (1747). However, in 1860, the Old Summer Palace was robbed, and the beautiful garden was plunged into a sea of fire. The palace maids, eunuchs and craftsmen were burned alive, and the money and treasures were looted. After the fire, the former art hall was left with only broken walls, and the forty scenes did not escape the misfortune of the Old Summer Palace, and fled overseas with other cultural and art treasures... For a long time, the image of the Old Summer Palace was a blank in the minds of the Chinese people. People can only "see the pavilion in the rubble, the lake in the mang reed, and the flowers and trees in the hazel". This is the fall of Chinese civilization and the eternal pain in the hearts of Chinese people。

The original painting of the forty scenes of the Old Summer Palace is now collected in the National Library of France. It has high artistic value and good visual effect. It is an ideal reproduction of the grand scene of the Old Summer Palace. Appreciating the painting is like roaming around the world and enjoying the scenic spots at home and abroad; Wandering around, it seems to be in the realm of fantasy。

In order that the devastated Old Summer Palace can reproduce its former style, and in order to remember the past glory and historical lessons, Mingxi media finally obtained the authorization of the French National Library through various efforts. On July 21, 2022, with the combination of digital technology and offline empowerment, and in conjunction with Jingyi technology, it jointly launched the digital special exhibition of the 40 scenes of the Old Summer Palace, which presented the 40 scenes in digital form to the eyes of the Chinese people, Welcome the cultural relics in exile abroad home in a new form。

The National Library of France is the largest library in France, developed from the Royal Library. Its history can be traced back to Charles V. It is the king's library established to collect the books and collections of the royal family in the past dynasties。

In 2018, the Dunhuang Cultural Expo exhibition "reproduction exhibition of scattered overseas Dunhuang fine cultural relics", initiated by Mingxi media - Mihe, was authorized by the French National Library to provide many Chinese cultural relics scattered in France. Mingxi media has also established a deep cooperative relationship with the French National Library. The National Library of France leads the world in the construction of digital libraries and library networks. It starts to digitize books, establish bibliographic databases, formulate a series of network development plans, and participate in the European multi-national cooperation project - "European Electronic Library Image Service Elise" plan. On March 5, 2018, the digital resources of Dunhuang relics collected by the National Library of France were officially released in the "Chinese ancient book resource library" of the ancient book digitization website opened by the National Library of China, marking the return of the overseas Dunhuang documents to China through digitization。