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. It is now in the National Library of France in Paris, France. Since 1860, when the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing and burned the Yuanmingyuan, not only the China Garden, which is called the "treasure house of oriental culture and art", was set on fire, but also a large number of precious cultural relics were taken away by the British and French allied forces (including 40 sets of 80 panoramic pictures of Yuanmingyuan painted during the Qianlong period) and refused to return them to China.

2. Yuanmingyuan Seal

At the end of the year, Xue Fucheng, a diplomat, recorded in the Diary of an Envoy to Britain, France and Italy that in the 16th year of Guangxu (A.D. 1890), the "Imperial Seal of Yuanmingyuan" was found in the China showroom of Paris Oriental Museum. One said:' Baohe Taihe', sapphire square seal, slightly larger; A' Yuanmingyuan Seal', white jade square seal, slightly smaller. "

1904 (30th year of Guangxu reign), Kang Youwei visited Paris, and saw China's Forbidden City treasures and imperial seals in the Qigui Pavilion, which he considered to be the cultural relics of Yuanmingyuan.

3. Forty scenic spots

The Forty Scenery of Yuanmingyuan is a 40 landscape paintings drawn by court painters and ci ministers according to Li Hong's will around the ninth year of Qianlong (1744).

1860, when the British and French allied forces burned the Yuanmingyuan, this precious set of paintings was taken away by the invaders and presented to the French emperor Charles Louis Napolé on Bonaparte, who is now in the National Library of Paris, France.

4. A picture of women's history

A Historical Map of Women is a silk painting created by Gu Kaizhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The original has been lost. There is a Tang Dynasty book with the original 12 paragraph. Due to its long history, there are only nine paragraphs left, which are colored for silk books and are now in the British Museum.

5. bronze statue of monkey head

The zodiac monkey is a national treasure, originally placed in front of Haiyan Hall in Yuanmingyuan. Because of Eight-Nation Alliance's invasion and exile, it was bought back by China Poly Group Company, and now it is collected in Beijing Poly Art Museum. It has extremely high historical value.