What are the national treasures of the Old Summer Palace?

The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace - the head of the rat and the head of the People's Daily Online Culture Channel on February 23 The news that the French Christie's auction house will auction the bronze statues of the rat head and the rabbit head in the Old Summer Palace has attracted great attention from Chinese at home and abroad. In the past 150 years, the bronze statues of the 12 zodiac animal heads of the Old Summer Palace have been scattered overseas, and there are currently five heads of cows, tigers, horses, monkeys and pigs returning to China through various channels, and the bronze statues of rat heads and rabbit heads are also expected to be reasonably claimed through legal channels, and the remaining five dragons, snakes, sheep, chickens and dogs are still missing. It's hard to come back!

Stupid, you can find it on the Internet, and there are also in our history books, and some of them are coming back, and there are many of them that have been bought at a high price、、、 and China is not going to get back all the national treasures, some have not been found, and some are in private collectors' collections. But it would be good if they had great mercy

If you have a friend, you can get a friend.

There are those who return to China. By 2012, the bronze statues of the head of the ox, the head of the monkey, the head of the tiger, the head of the pig and the head of the horse have been returned to China and collected in the Poly Art Museum. On April 26, 2013, the French Pinault family announced in Beijing that they would donate the bronze rat and rabbit heads from the 12 major water methods of the Old Summer Palace to the Chinese side free of charge. The rat head and rabbit head donated this time are the Old Summer Palace in Beijing.

Two of the lost bronze statues of the zodiac.

At present, 8 of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the 12 water laws of the Old Summer Palace have returned to China, of which the dragon head is currently well preserved in Taiwan, but the head of the snake, the head of the chicken, the head of the dog, and the head of the sheep are missing.

Water Viewing Stone Screen: This stone screen was first used by Emperor Xuantong.

's uncle Zaitao.

Stored in a private garden, it was transported back in 1977 and restored to its original location. This is the first lost cultural relic of the Old Summer Palace to be completely returned.

Raising bird cage stone piers: In the 70s of the last century, the site of the west gate of the bird cage was moved to a certain unit at No. 17 Tiancunshan South Road, and in 2013, the troops returned these four stone piers to the Old Summer Palace.

Fountain on the north side of Harmony Fun: This fountain was moved to Dongcheng District in the 20s of the last century.

In the garden of a courtyard in Cuihua Hutong, it was not until 1987 that it was moved back to the original site of the Old Summer Palace as a whole.

Big Water Law Stone Fish: In the mid-30s of the last century, it was used by the Kuomintang.

Army Lieutenant General Yang Jie.

Moved to the courtyard of his private residence in Xidan Heng Ertiao, and returned to the Old Summer Palace in November 2006, and the existing Old Summer Palace Exhibition Hall.

The stone lion of the Old Summer Palace.

In the 20s of the last century, it was moved from the Old Summer Palace to No. 87 Courtyard of Xijiaomin Lane, and in 2009, the pair of stone lions and part of the stone carvings of the Old Summer Palace were returned to the Old Summer Palace.

At the beginning of 2003, the China Special Project for Rescuing Lost Overseas Cultural Relics ** found the whereabouts of the bronze statue of the pig's head in the United States. After hard work, the American collector agreed to transfer the bronze statue of the pig's head to the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

He Hong, a member of the Standing Committee and a patriotic entrepreneur, donated more than 6 million yuan to buy back the bronze statue of the pig's head.

In 2007, Sotheby's announced that it would auction the horse's head, which again caused a public uproar, and after negotiation, Ho Hung made a second move, buying the bronze statue for 69.1 million Hong Kong dollars before the auction and donating them to the state.

In April 2013, the French Pinault family announced in Beijing that they had decided to send the bronze rat and rabbit heads of the Old Summer Palace to China free of charge, and that seven of the 12 Chinese zodiac signs of the Old Summer Palace would be returned to China.

In July 2013, the reporter was from the National Museum of China.

It was donated to China by the Pinault family of France at the end of last month**.

The bronze rat head and rabbit head of the Old Summer Palace will be exhibited in the basic exhibition of the "Road to Rejuvenation" of the National Museum of China from the 18th.

On February 27, 2016, the four animal heads of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace "Ox Head, Tiger Head, Monkey Head, and Pig Head" were officially unveiled in the Weinan Museum, which is the bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace.

The first exhibition in Shaanxi Province. Also on display is a 1:1 casting of the head of the zodiac animal in pure gold.

Most of the treasures of the Old Summer Palace are now collected in some foreign museums, and 8 of them have returned.

Five bronze animal heads of ox, tiger, monkey, pig and horse have been rescued by patriots in 2000, 2003 and 2007 respectively, and are collected in the Poly Art Museum. It is now known that the head of the rat and the head of the rabbit were donated by the chairman of the French PPR group on April 26, 2013 and sent back to China, and the head of the dragon is in Taiwan and is well preserved.

The bronze statue of the 12 zodiac animal heads in the Old Summer Palace was originally a part of the fountain outside the Haiyan bench in the Old Summer Palace, and it was a red bronze statue in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The south shore is Zi Rat, Yin Hu, Chen Long, Wu Ma, Shen Monkey, and Xu Dog; On the north shore, they are the ugly cow, the rabbit, the snake, the sheep, the rooster, and the pig. In 1860, the British-French-Sen alliance invaded China and burned the Old Summer Palace, and the bronze statue of the beast's head began to be lost overseas.