The remaining four dragon heads of the twelve animal heads are also collected in Taiwan Province, but the whereabouts of snake heads, sheep heads, chicken heads and dog heads are still unknown.
The animal head of the Lunar New Year in Yuanmingyuan is a bronze statue of Dashuifa in front of Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan. It is a 12-bronze statue designed by Lang Shining, a Jesuit priest in China during Qianlong period.
In p>186, during the invasion of China by the British and French allied forces, they set fire to the Yuanmingyuan, the largest royal garden in China, and looted all the treasures in the Yuanmingyuan. It was also during this period that the twenty animal heads in the Yuanmingyuan were robbed by the British and French powers, and since then they have been scattered all over the world.
bronze statue of the animal head of the zodiac in Yuanmingyuan
Haiyan Hall, a historic site in Yuanmingyuan, was built in 1759 (the 24th year of Qianlong). The word "Haiyan" means "He Qing Hai Yan, the country is peaceful and the people are safe". Wen Yuan Ying Hua, Tang Zhengxi, There are Wang Ci Fu in Japan and China: "He Qing Hai Yan, when he was young" River, Yellow River; Yan, calm. "River is clear and Haiyan" is also called "Haiyan River is clear", which means that the Yellow River is clear and the sea is calm.
This phrase is used to describe peace in the world, and it has auspicious meaning of praising world peace. The name "Haiyan Hall", a practical ornamental building in Yuanmingyuan, a royal garden in China, is also derived from this. The essence of this building complex-the bronze statue of the zodiac is famous all over the world for telling the time with water.
The animal head was designed by Lang Shining, a Jesuit priest in China. He represented 24 hours of the day with the animal head's 12 zodiac signs, and each bronze statue sprayed water in turn, which was a spectacle.
In p>186, the animal heads of the 12 Zodiac animals were plundered by the British and French allied forces and scattered around the country. Among them, the bronze heads of cattle, monkeys, tigers and pigs have returned to China and are collected in Poly Art Museum. The bronze statue of Ma Shou was purchased by Stanley Ho, a Macao businessman, and donated to the country in 27.
The head of the mouse and the head of the rabbit were donated to China by the French Pino family for free, and entered the Tibet Expo; As of May 213, according to reliable information, Longshou was collected in Taiwan Province; The whereabouts of snake head, chicken head, dog head and sheep head are unknown.
In p>186, the British and French allied forces burned down the Yuanmingyuan, and the bronze statue of the 12 Zodiac of Yuanmingyuan has since been lost overseas, which has become a microcosm of the loss of cultural relics in China. During the hundred years since the Opium War, there were as many as one million pieces of China cultural relics lost overseas due to war, looting and chiseling.
among all the famous museums abroad, there are more than 1.6 million pieces of China's collection, including other folk collections of China's cultural relics, and the total number of all China's cultural relics scattered overseas is more than 17 million pieces, which exceeds the collection of local museums and folk in China.