Since the Yuanmingyuan was looted and burned by the British and French allied forces, the cultural relics in the park have been continuously lost, most of which are existing overseas, with the largest number in European countries such as Britain and France.

According to the statistics of the Cultural Relics Society of China, since the Opium War 1840, a large number of precious cultural relics in China have been lost overseas due to war and unfair trade. During this period, more than 6,543,800,000 pieces of China cultural relics were lost to Europe, America, Japan, Southeast Asia and other countries and regions.

The statistics of UNESCO is another figure: among more than 200 museums in 47 countries, there are 6.5438+0.64 million pieces of China cultural relics, and the number of China cultural relics collected by the people is 654.38+00 times.

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Some famous museums and libraries in Europe also collect the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan, and the panoramic view of Yuanmingyuan is now kept in the Paris Museum.

The original painting of Forty Scenes of Yuanmingyuan was drawn by court painters Shen Yuan and Tang Dai in Qing Dynasty, and the copperplate painting Perspective of Western Architecture was drawn by Lang Shining, which is now in the National Library of Paris.

The British Library has some pictures of Sikuquanshu originally stored in the Wen Yuan Pavilion of Yuanmingyuan, as well as many porcelain, gold and jade articles of Yuanmingyuan.

The British Museum in London also has a large collection of Yuanmingyuan cultural relics, among which Gu Kaizhi, a great painter of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, handed down a masterpiece "A Picture of Women's History" (imitating the Tang Dynasty).

Fontainebleau Palace, located 70km southeast of Paris, was built in 1 137 and was originally the palace of the French king.

Nowadays, Fontainebleau is considered as the best museum to collect and display the treasures of Yuanmingyuan in the West, and its "China Pavilion" part can be said to be the reappearance of Yuanmingyuan in the West. Why? Because all the exhibits in "China Pavilion" come from Yuanmingyuan.

1860 After the British and French allied forces looted and burned the Yuanmingyuan, Montaubon, commander of the French army invading China, presented the plunder proceeds of Yuanmingyuan to Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte (son of Napoleon's younger brother).

In order to store these cultural relics, Queen Eugénie presided over the construction of the China Pavilion, which contained more than 30,000 pieces of gold and silver jewelry, porcelain, incense burners, chimes, precious stones and gold and silver utensils from Yuanmingyuan.

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