What caused the destruction of Nanxun Yiyuan Garden?

Japanese invasion. In Nanxun, the Japanese army burned and looted, destroying a large number of cultural relics and buildings, and Yiyuan was not spared. Among them, Yiyuan building was the most seriously damaged. Ye Jia Library, known as "one of the four major libraries in the south of the Yangtze River", caught fire, and a large number of out-of-print books and ancient books were swallowed up by the fire.