There are many exquisite silks and satins, precious fabrics, jade, porcelain and other art treasures in Yuanmingyuan. So what national treasures are there in Yuanmingyuan? Let's take a look at a memorial written by the Ministry of Internal Affairs during the Daoguang period. This memorial records in detail the list of items kept in the Palace and Yuanmingyuan in Daoguang 15:
There are 569,390 silver coins, including 290,505 in the Forbidden City and 280,694 in the Yuanmingyuan. All kinds of ruyi 162 1, including Palace Memory 1 194, Yuanmingyuan 450; There are 50/kloc-0 pieces of jade inkstones and pens, including 42 pieces in Gongzhong/kloc-0 and 337 pieces in Yuanmingyuan. 773 first-class porcelain furnaces, bottles and cans. * * *, including Palace 337 and Yuanmingyuan Central 29 1.
However, these cultural relics are just the tip of the iceberg for Yuanmingyuan. From the historical archives of the Qing Dynasty, the research articles of the Palace Museum and the archives of the Summer Palace, we can see that the number of cultural relics in the Yuanmingyuan in that year will not be less than 1.5 million.
One of the most famous treasures of Yuanmingyuan is the animal head of the Chinese zodiac, in addition to the portraits of concubines after Qianlong, Qianlong jade seal, Kangxi Jade Ruyi, silver-cast animal face knocker, jade carving stone niche with infinite life, white jade tiger lion ornaments, rosewood inlaid with white jade mother-of-pearl and yellow jade carved duck wearing lotus. Among the paintings and calligraphy collections in Yuanmingyuan, Sikuquanshu is the most famous, and there are also some rare treasures, such as Cold Food Sticker by Su Shi, a great writer in the Song Dynasty, Poem of Returning Home by Qian Xuan in the Yuan Dynasty, Poems of Forty Scenes in Yuanmingyuan by Shen Yuan and Tang Dai in the Qing Dynasty, and Forty Scenes, one of the most successful meticulous paintings in China.