Among the animal heads of Yuanmingyuan 12, five are still drifting overseas, and the return of this animal head is thanks to Stanley Ho of Hong Kong. He made unremitting efforts for the return of Yuanmingyuan. Before that, he donated all the pig heads to the country. These animal heads in Yuanmingyuan are exquisite in workmanship, not only beautiful in appearance, but also have organs inside. Designed by Italian Lang Shining, it is the main part of the fountain outside the West Complex of Changchun Garden in Yuanmingyuan.
Not only is it lifelike in shape, but it still has no rust after a hundred years, which shows a very high level of science and technology at that time, and it is of great value for China scientists to study the manufacturing technology and culture at that time. However, because the British and French allied forces invaded Beijing, Yuanmingyuan was burned down, and these shooters also lost overseas, which caused great losses to our country. With the increasing strength and national strength of China, many cultural relics lost overseas have gradually returned to the embrace of the motherland.
At the ceremony of Ma Shou's return, National Cultural Heritage Administration said that these cultural relics will be exhibited together with some lost cultural relics before, and will be collected in the Yuanmingyuan Management Office for long-term exhibition. I hope that all the cultural relics lost overseas in China will return to the embrace of the motherland in the future. These cultural relics collected in Yuanmingyuan, as treasures of human culture, have always had high artistic and cultural values and are also the wealth of our country.