Brief introduction of copper-headed cattle in Yuanmingyuan

The bronze statue of the animal head of Yuanmingyuan, also known as the bronze statue of the animal head of the Yuanmingyuan Zodiac, and the bronze statue of the animal head of the Yuanmingyuan Zodiac. The bronze statue of the animal head in Yuanmingyuan was originally a part of the fountain outside Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan, and it was a bronze statue of the Qing Dynasty. The bronze statue of the animal head of the zodiac is shaped like a figure of eight and placed on the stone platforms on both sides of the fountain. Every animal is a fountain mechanism, and every hour, the corresponding animal will spray water for two hours. Because the ancient people's hour was two hours, and twelve hours was exactly twenty-four hours. But at noon, they will spray water together, and the scene is spectacular. 1860, the British and French allied forces invaded China and burned Yuanmingyuan, and the bronze statue of the animal head began to be lost overseas. By 20 12, the bronze statues of bull head, monkey head, tiger head, pig head and horse head had returned to China and were collected in Poly Art Museum. 20 13 on April 26th, France announced that it would return the rat head and rabbit head to the government of China. It is known that the dragon head is now in Taiwan Province Province, which is well preserved, but it will not appear in the short term. The whereabouts of the head of the snake, the head of the chicken, the head of the dog and the head of the sheep are unknown, and the bronze statue of the animal head in Yuanmingyuan has become a symbol of the loss of overseas cultural relics in Yuanmingyuan.

Bronze statue of tauren

1860, after the Yuanmingyuan was looted and burned by the British and French allied forces, Niutou lived abroad all the time and appeared as a garden decoration in American houses. In 1980s, Cai, an entrepreneur from Taiwan Province, China, bought a bronze statue of a bull's head at Sotheby's. On April 30th, 2000, China Poly Group bought the bull's head at Christie's auction house in Hong Kong for HK$ 7.745 million, and now it is deposited in Poly Art Museum.