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圆明园是清朝的皇家园林，西洋楼景区以其欧洲风格建筑而闻名，十九世纪毁于英法联军战火。圆明园遗址目前是重要的旅游景点，并被视为爱国主义教育的象征。
在一块巨大的磨砂玻璃上投影着游客在园明园遗址里充满乐趣地留影的场面。现场堆积古罗马风格的石膏装饰材料，其上用隐形幻彩颜料书写了《阿弥陀经》中关于西方极乐世界的描述。紫光灯与射灯的光每三秒切换一次，荧光色的经文就在黑色的空中忽隐忽现。
佛经将西方描述成美好的净士，现代史中的西方则是一个侵略者，而今天欧洲风格的家庭装饰是一种时尚。就象清朝的皇帝建造圆明圆的西式建筑，中国人对西方矛盾复杂的心态始终充满了想象的成份，建筑是一个有趣的个案。
Elysium :ornament from the West 1999
Yuanmingyuan Park (Winter Palace) was the royal garden in the Qing Dynasty and the Xiyanglou District was well known for its architecture of European style, which was ruined by the joint invaders of UK and France in the 19th century. The relics of Yuanmingyuan is now one of the most popular tourist resort in Beijing and is also considered as the symbol of patriotic education.
One large piece of ground glass reflects the scenes of tourists enjoying taking pictures in the relics. Many plaster ornamental materials of Ancient Rome Style, on which Amitabha Sutra's scripts of description of the West Pure Land with fluorescent paints are written, are plied on the scene. The purple lights are switched to white lights once every three seconds only to make the fluorescent sutra flicker in the darkness.
The West is described as Pure Land in the sutra, comparing with the image of invaders of the West in the modern history. While European style has turned to be a fashion of family ornaments. From the western style architecture in the Winter Palace in the Qing Dynasty, Chinese people's mixed feelings of contradiction and complexity to the West are full of imaginary elements. The architecture is but a very interesting case.
