Who knows what cultural relics were looted in the Old Summer Palace

1. Bronze statue of the monkey's head.

The Shen monkey of the Chinese zodiac, a national treasure-level cultural relic, was originally placed in front of the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace one of the 12 bronze statues of the zodiac. Due to the invasion of the Eight-Nation Alliance, it was purchased back by China Poly Group Corporation and is now in the collection of Beijing Poly Art Museum. It has extremely high historical value.

In 1860, after the "burning of the Old Summer Palace", it was plundered and lost overseas, and was later purchased by China Poly Group Corporation, and is now in the collection of Beijing Poly Art Museum.

2. Seal of the Old Summer Palace.

Xue Fucheng, a diplomat at the end of the Qing Dynasty, recorded in his "Diary of an Envoy to Britain, France, Italy and Belgium" that in the sixteenth year of Guangxu (1890 AD), he found that "there are two sides of the jade seal of the Old Summer Palace" in the Chinese exhibition room of the Oriental Museum in Paris. One said:

Baohe Taihe', green jade square seal, slightly larger;One is called 'Old Summer Palace Seal', the white jade square seal, slightly smaller". In 1904 (the thirtieth year of Guangxu), Kang Youwei traveled to Paris, and saw the treasures of China's inner government and jade seals in the Strange Rules Museum, and thought that they were cultural relics of the Old Summer Palace.

3. Forty scenes.

The 40 views of the Old Summer Palace refer to the 40 garden scenery groups with unique patterns in the garden. A view is a "round garden" or garden complex.

In the first month of the first year of Qianlong (1736), Hongli passed the decree to the painter Leng Mei of the Ruyi Museum: according to the 36 scenes of the summer resort drawn by the Kangxi Dynasty, the draft of the "palace premises" of the Old Summer Palace was divided into scenes. Soon after, Tang Dai and Shen Yuan were ordered to paint.

Shen Yuan painted the house, and Tang Dai painted the earth, mountains, trees and stones. Later, Zhou Kun and others also participated in the drawing of this set of "Yuanmingyuan Album".

4. Female history proverbial map.

The Female History of Zhen is a silk painting created by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty of China. The original work has been lost, there are copies of the Tang Dynasty, the original 12 paragraphs, because of the age, only 9 paragraphs remain, for the silk color book, now in the British Museum.

The work depicts the deeds of the female fan, including the story of Feng Yuan in the Han Dynasty who shielded the bear and protected the Han Yuan Emperor; There are stories of Ban Jieyu refusing to be with Emperor Cheng of the Han Dynasty, in case Emperor Cheng was greedy for women and mistook the government. The rest of the paragraphs are all about the moral sentiments that upper-class women should have, with a certain didactic nature.

5. Panorama of the Old Summer Palace.

Forty Views of the Old Summer Palace was drawn by Qing Dynasty court painters Shen Yuan and Tang Dai, and inscribed by Qianlong.

In 1860, when the British and French forces burned down the five gardens and three mountains in western Beijing, they plundered these forty paintings. It is now in the collection of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France. Since 1860, when the British and French forces invaded Beijing and burned the Old Summer Palace, not only the Chinese garden, which can be called the "treasure house of oriental culture and art", was burned, but a large number of treasures and cultural relics were also taken away by the British and French forces (including these 40 sets of 80 panoramas of the Old Summer Palace painted during the Qianlong period), and have been refusing to return to China.

Bronze statues of pig heads and horse heads, etc.

The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace.

It was originally a part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Hall of the Old Summer Palace, and it was a red copper in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty.

Cast statues. In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China and burned the Old Summer Palace.

The bronze statue of the head of the beast began to be lost overseas.

As of November 2019, seven bronze statues of animal heads lost in the Old Summer Palace, including the head of the ox, the head of the monkey, the head of the tiger, the head of the pig, the head of the rat, the head of the rabbit and the head of the horse, have returned to the motherland in different ways. Among them, the bronze statue of the pig's head and the bronze statue of the horse's head are by Stanley Ho.

In 2003 and 2019, he invested in the purchase and returned it to the state.

April 26, 2013, the Pinault family, France.

In Beijing, it announced the donation of rat and rabbit heads to China free of charge. On November 13, 2019, Stanley Ho donated the bronze statue of the horse's head to the State Administration of Cultural Heritage and returned it to the permanent collection of the Old Summer Palace. The whereabouts of the remaining four remain unknown.

White marble fish, a pair of bronze lions, a pair of vases, from October 18, 2003, the pig's head and the tiger's head, the ox's head and the monkey's head, which returned in 2000, will be exhibited free of charge in the Old Summer Palace. So far, the head of the tiger, the head of the ox, the head of the monkey, the head of the pig, and the head of the horse have reunited in Beijing!

12 bronze heads except for dragon heads, snake heads, chicken heads, and dog heads were all bought back.

There are more than that, there are 12 zodiac animal heads, many scriptures, various cultural relics, calligraphy and paintings, countless.

The Old Summer Palace is located in Haidian District, a western suburb of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace. It was founded in the 46th year of Kangxi (1707) and consists of three gardens: Yuanmingyuan, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden. There are more than 100 garden landscapes, with a construction area of about 160,000 square meters, which is a large royal palace created and operated by the emperor of the Qing Dynasty for more than 150 years.

The Old Summer Palace is known as the "Garden of Ten Thousand Gardens".

There are too many people, the Old Summer Palace was burned down, and there are still some remnants left.