Before the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed, there were some treasures, such as the bronze statue of the zodiac, the seal of Yuanmingyuan, the 40-scene map, the female history map and so on. The bronze statue of the animal head of the zodiac in Yuanmingyuan was originally part of the fountain outside Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan. This is a bronze statue of Qianlong period in Qing Dynasty. 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.

What treasures were there before the Yuanmingyuan was destroyed?

Forty Landscape Paintings of Yuanmingyuan are 40 landscape paintings drawn by court painters and ci ministers according to the will of Emperor Qianlong around nine years ago, and are now in the National Library of Paris, France.

A Historical Map of Women is a silk painting created by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The original has been lost, and there is a copy of the Tang Dynasty, paragraph 12. Because of its long history, there are only nine paragraphs left, which is a color for silk.

Forty Scenes of Yuanmingyuan was written by court painters Shen Yuan and Tang Dai in Qing Dynasty and inscribed by Gan Long. 1860, when the British and French allied forces set fire to five gardens and three mountains in the west of Beijing, they plundered these forty paintings.