Yuanmingyuan, also known as Yuanming Sanyuan, is a large-scale royal garden in the Qing Dynasty. It is located in the northwest suburb of Beijing, adjacent to the Summer Palace, and consists of Yuanmingyuan Garden, Changchun Garden and Qichun Garden, so it is also called Yuanming Sanyuan. There are also many small gardens in the east, west and south.

The whole Yuanmingyuan is large-scale, and the general plan of the three gardens is inverted "pin", covering an area of about 3.5 million square meters, with a circumference of 10 km. There are 123 gardens, including 69 Yuanmingyuan Garden, 24 Changchun Garden and 30 Qichun Garden, with a total construction area exceeding160,000 square meters.

Yuanmingyuan is a waterscape garden with the theme of water, and the water surface accounts for more than half of the whole garden area. Its water mainly comes from Yuquan Mountain, passes through Kunming Lake in the Summer Palace and Wanquan River, a tributary of Qinghe River, and is injected into Zibi Mountain House in Yuanmingyuan from the northwest by Ximachang Iron Gate, and then scattered in various gardens.

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After the looting of Yuanmingyuan, a large number of priceless treasures in the park were lost overseas. In European museums, there are collections from Yuanmingyuan, such as Women's Historical Prose (British Museum), Forty Poems of Yuanmingyuan (National Library of France), remnants of Sikuquanshu, porcelain, Buddha statues and stupas (mostly concentrated in Fontainebleau Palace, France). Most of the other treasures in Yuanmingyuan can't be verified.

1886, British and French allied forces stole the bronze statue of Haiyan Tang 12 animal head of the Chinese zodiac. Among the known existing treasures, the bronze statues of the head of a cow, the head of a tiger and the head of a monkey were sold by Beijing Poly Group at Christie's auction in Hong Kong in April 2000 for HK$ 31370,000 (the head of a cow and the head of a monkey were 150).

In September 2003, Zhenguan International Auction (Hong Kong) Co., Ltd. announced that it would auction the bronze statue of the dog head, but it was questioned by the outside world. Finally, the company took back the goods and cancelled the auction. In the same month, Stanley Ho, a Macao businessman, bought back the bronze statue of the pig's head and donated it to the Poly Art Museum, which is now on display at the Beijing Poly Art Museum on the second floor of Poly Building, No.2 Dongzhimen South Street 14.

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