The burning of the Yuanmingyuan is the eternal pain in the hearts of Chinese, this world-class treasure garden was burned by the bandits who invaded the mainland, and how many cultural relics the Eight-Nation Alliance stole are now countless. The invaders said that there were too many things in the garden to know how to start for a while, and the soldiers hats were full of precious stones, some of them were wrapped in satin, and some of them stuffed gold bars and gold leaves into their pockets. The silk they took away was said to be enough for the citizens of half of Beijing at that time, and they transported the things they had taken from the Yuanmingyuan one by one in horse-drawn carriages. There was so much left that they couldn't take it away, so they began to take pleasure in destruction, destroying everything that could not be taken away, the satin was dumped from the cabinet on the ground, and the building was smashed by the soldiers with weapons.
The Yuanmingyuan was destroyed, and cultural relics were lost overseas
Later, the fire burned the Yuanmingyuan for three days and three nights, and the city of Beijing was shrouded in five black smokes in these days, and the whole of China was immersed in a kind of grief. The palace eunuchs who did not escape from the Yuanmingyuan were burned alive, and this barbaric crime became the eternal grief in the hearts of Chinese, and people who knew the history were familiar with the impact of this period of aggression on China, and Chinese their hearts had always been full of regret for the Yuanmingyuan. After the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan were lost overseas, these greedy invaders quickly sold these cultural relics, and many soldiers have since become rich and live a very good life. These cultural relics circulate in the market, and to this day, you can still see the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan appearing at foreign auctions.
The prices of cultural relics in the Yuanmingyuan continued to rise at auctions, and dragon heads appeared one after another
Now as long as the cultural relics of the Yuanmingyuan appear, the buyers are basically Chinese, and when everyone buys the cultural relics lost in the Yuanmingyuan, they will always think that this is a precious treasure of the mainland, and it cannot be allowed to wander overseas anymore. Foreigners soon realized that Chinese were very interested in the lost cultural relics, so they took a seat and raised the value of the cultural relics to hundreds or even thousands of times the original value. In 1985, the bronze statue of the Yuanmingyuan appeared, and an American bought the bronze statues of the bull's head, the tiger's head, and the horse's head for a low price of $1500.
However, since then, the three animal heads have begun to appear at auctions at high prices, from US$1500 to US$250,000, and then at Christie's Hong Kong auction in 2000, the bull's head reached 7.74 million Hong Kong dollars, and in 2007, the bronze statue of the horse's head appeared at the Sotheby's Auction in Hong Kong and was purchased by Ho Hongsheng for HK$69.1 million. In 2018, at a small auction in Paris, France, the dragon head also appeared one after another, and the dragon head was bought by a Chinese buyer for 24 million yuan that night, and when the news came out, a stone hanging in everyone's heart fell. Whether it is domestic or overseas, there have always been many patriots, cows, rats, tigers, monkeys, pigs, horses and bronze animal heads are purchased by patriots to return to China, and now these beast capitals are treasured in the Poly Art Museum.
There are many "patriotic buyers", and experts are worried about the whereabouts of cultural relics
After the dragon head was bought, the Chinese buyer took the dragon head to Taiwan to treasure, and according to the actions of patriotic buyers in the past, experts said that the dragon head is now expected to be handed over free of charge. But even if the buyer is not willing to turn it in, it does not matter, the dragon head is a link of the head of the zodiac beast, and it is already perfect to know that it is in China. But there are also special "patriots", Weng Wange is one of them, he is Chinese, his ancestors were once high-ranking officials, now he is already an American, he has hundreds of precious cultural relics in his home, and not long ago, he donated all these cultural relics to private art museums in the United States free of charge.