The bronze statue of the animal head of the zodiac in Yuanmingyuan was originally a part of the fountain outside Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan, and it was a bronze statue of the Qing Dynasty. 1860, the British and French allied forces invaded China and burned Yuanmingyuan, and the bronze statue of the animal head began to be lost overseas.

By 20 12, the bronze statues of bull head, monkey head, tiger head, pig head and horse head had returned to China and were collected in Poly Art Museum. 20 13 On April 26th, French Pino family announced in Beijing that they would donate the bronze mouse heads and rabbit heads of the Twelve Water Methods in Yuanmingyuan to China for free. The donated mouse head and rabbit head are two of the bronze statues of the 12 zodiac animals lost in the Yuanmingyuan in Beijing.

2. Yuanmingyuan Seal

At the end of the year, Xue Fucheng, a diplomat, recorded in the Diary of an Envoy to Britain, France and Italy that in the 16th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1890), the "Imperial Seal of Yuanmingyuan" was found in the China showroom of Paris Oriental Museum. One said:' Baohe Taihe', sapphire square seal, slightly larger; A' Yuanmingyuan Seal', white jade square seal, slightly smaller. "

1904 (30th year of Guangxu reign), Kang Youwei visited Paris. He saw the treasures and imperial seals of the Forbidden City in China in the Qigui Pavilion, which he thought were the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan.

3. Forty scenic spots

The Forty Scenery of Yuanmingyuan is a 40 landscape paintings drawn by court painters and ci ministers according to Li Hong's will around the ninth year of Qianlong (1744).

1860, when the British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan, this precious set of paintings was taken away by the invaders and presented to the French emperor Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, who is now in the National Library of Paris, France.

4. Qianlong Imperial Seal left China from the end of 19 to the beginning of the 20th century. He was taken out of the Forbidden City during the Boxer Rebellion. In 1950s and 1960s, a European collector obtained the Qianlong Imperial Seal and gave it to his son Asaf. 20 10, 1 1, Asaf intends to auction the jade seal. Asaf described the white jade seal as "a symbol of imperial power in the heyday of China".

5. Emerald Watermelon is a cultural relic of Qing Dynasty in China, a pair of * * *, belonging to peerless national treasures. It is made of a lot of tourmaline imported from America. Watermelon skin is green with dark green stripes: you can also vaguely see black melon seeds and red flesh in the melon.

Deeply loved by Empress Dowager Cixi, she was buried with Emerald Watermelon after her death and stolen by warlord Sun Dianying. Her current whereabouts are unknown.