本文以英法聯軍火燒圓明園事件為背景，圓明園係皇家園林，位於首都要津，卻遭英法聯軍擄掠焚毀，數百名守園者殉死，咸豐帝亦匆忙由圓明園後門出逃至熱河行宮避禍。這是極為恥辱的一段史事，當時京城差點陷落，眾所皆知，但整起事件詳細經過以及事後之咎責，卻因此事被視為國恥，而為史書所略，文人士子亦罕有述及者，尤其在咸、同年間，更為人所避諱。基此，筆者期能通過現存書寫英法聯軍火燒圓明園事件之詞史，探究這個在當時略帶政治忌諱的事件撰寫為詞，係以何種視角追憶與評價戰爭史事。蓋詞之特質本就宜於抒情而非敘事，故而於歷史事件之表現遠不如詩歌那般淋漓酣暢，由此觀之，乃詞之為體之侷限；然而，在表現人們面對此一重大歷史變故時所產生的幽微心曲，詞顯然又比詩歌更加細膩且曲折，故本文擬援引西方「文化記憶」的理論，同時結合「新歷史主義」的觀點，探究咸、同年間書寫英法聯軍火燒圓明園事件之詞史作品，如何建構集體記憶並產生政治文化意義下的身分認同以及由此延伸之傷悼視角，藉以尋求文化場域裡屬於詞史作品更多元的詮釋空間及更豐富的內在意涵。

This project is based on the Burning of the Old Summer Palace by the Anglo-French forces. The Old Summer Palace, Yuanmingyuan, is an imperial garden located outside Beijing, but it was looted and burned down by the Anglo-French troops. Hundreds of guards died, and Emperor Xianfeng also fled from the back door to the Chengde Mountain Resort in a hurry. It is a very shameful piece of Chinese imperial history. At that time, it was well known that the capital was almost occupied. However, the detailed process of the whole incident and the subsequent accountability were regarded as a national shame, which was omitted in the historical records and rarely mentioned by scholars, especially under the rulings of Xianfeng and Tongzhi. Due to this, the researcher intends to explore how the incident was documented in the Historical Ci and how the war was recalled and evaluated from different perspectives. The nature of Ci is more lyrical than narrative, and therefore the Ci's representation of historical events is far less lively than that of poetry, which is the limitation of Ci itself. This paper investigated how the Ci works on the burning of Yuanmingyuan by the British and French troops during the regimes of Xianfeng Emperor and Daoguang Emperor constructed collective memory and produced identity in a political and cultural sense, as well as the extended perspective of grief and mourning, in order to seek a more diverse interpretation and insights for the Ci works.