1. The bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animal heads in Yuanmingyuan
The bronze statue of the twelve zodiac animal heads in Yuanmingyuan was originally the knife part of the fountain outside the Haiyan Palace of Yuanmingyuan. It is a red bronze statue cast during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. In 1860, the British and French forces invaded China and set fire to the Old Summer Palace.
By 2012, the bronze statues of bull head, monkey head, tiger head, pig head and horse head were 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 twelve-water bronze rat and rabbit heads from the Old Summer Palace to China. The donated rat heads and rabbit heads are two of the missing 12 zodiac bronze statues in the Old Summer Palace in Beijing.
2. Seal of the Old Summer Palace
Xue Fucheng, the last diplomat, wrote in his diary that the four British countries, France and Italy: In the 16th year of the reign of Emperor Guangxu During the period (1890) he discovered "the jade seal of the Old Summer Palace on both sides" in the exhibition space of the Chinese Oriental Museum in Paris. One said: "To maintain harmony is too harmonious", a sapphire square seal, slightly larger; the other said 'Old Summer Palace Seal', a white jade square seal, slightly smaller.
In 1904 (the 30th year of Guangxu), Kang Youwei To Paris. He had seen treasures and seals in the Chinese Qigui Museum and thought they were relics of the Old Summer Palace.
3. Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace
The "Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace". "According to the will of Emperor Qianlong Hongli, around the ninth year of Qianlong (1744), these forty scenes were painted by court painters and courtiers.
In 1860, when the British and French forces set fire to the Old Summer Palace, This precious set of paintings was plundered by the invaders and presented to the French Emperor Napoleon III. It is now in the National Library in Paris, France.
4. "Adonis". " is a silk scroll painting by Gu Kaizhi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty in China. The original work has been lost, but there were copies in the Tang Dynasty. There were originally 12 pieces, but due to their age, only 9 pieces are left. They are painted on silk and are now in the collection. British Museum.
5. Panorama of the Old Summer Palace
"Forty Scenes of the Old Summer Palace" was painted by Shen Yuan and Tang Dynasty, and was inscribed by Qianlong in 1860. The allied forces set fire to the Five Gardens and Three Mountains west of Beijing and looted the 40 paintings, which are now in the French National Library, Paris, France. Since the British and French forces invaded Beijing in 1860, not only the Chinese gardens were considered "Oriental Culture". "Art Treasure House" was razed to the ground, and a large number of precious cultural relics were also taken away by the British and French forces (including 40 panoramic pictures of the Old Summer Palace in 1980 painted during the Qianlong period), and they refused to return to China.