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At christie's auction in France in 2009, two lots caught everyone's attention. The two auction items are a bronze rabbit head and a rat head, and the total length of the auction of the two lots is only

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At christie's auction in France in 2009, two lots caught everyone's attention. The two auction items are a bronze rabbit head and a rat head, and the total length of the auction of the two auction items took only five minutes, and they were auctioned by the Pino family for a sky-high price of 200 million yuan!

What is the origin of these two bronze beast heads? Is it really worth that high price?

It is said that during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty, he was very eager for the gorgeous fountain of versailles in France, so he asked the Italian missionary Lang Shining to design a fountain comparable to versailles for the Yuanmingyuan.

The plan that Lang Shining began to design was rejected by the Qianlong Emperor, because he designed a whole set of Luo body women's shapes. Luo female sculpture openly placed in public? No way! Therefore, the Qianlong Emperor demanded that animals be replaced instead.

So Lang Shining designed the head of the zodiac as the dragon head of the fountain. The bronze statues of the heads of the zodiac beasts are arranged on the left and right sides, with 6 on each side. Every 2 hours, the corresponding zodiac statue of the representative is sprayed with water. At 12:00 noon, spring water spewed out from the mouth of the bronze statue of the zodiac at the same time, and the scene was very grand and spectacular, and the sound of spraying water could even be heard for miles.

The two beast heads at the auction are the rabbit heads and rat heads in the Zodiac of the Yuanmingyuan that year.

So, why can these two bronze beast heads be sold for such a high price?

You know, in 1985, the auction price of a bull head was $1,500 for the same bronze beast head, and only 24 years later, the price of the beast head increased by more than 30,000 times!

The painting recorded by Tang Bohu at auction is "Songya Beiye Picture Scroll", and the auction price is 71.3 million yuan; The jade seal of the Qianlong Emperor of the Qing Dynasty also only auctioned 100 million people's coins.

And the two bronze animal heads used to make fountain faucets in the garden actually sold for 200 million yuan!

Are the two bronze beast heads of the Qing Dynasty really worth so much money?

In fact, the zodiac beast head is the product of the collision of Chinese and Western cultures, and is also an important symbol of the heyday of the national strength of the Qing Empire. The cultural relics value of the bronze beast heads themselves should not have reached the sky-high price of 200 million, but these beast heads experienced the burning of the Yuanmingyuan incident and were exiled overseas, and in the eyes of Chinese, they are symbols of humiliating history. The value of their return to the motherland is actually difficult to measure by the number of money.

(Source: National Treasures)

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At christie's auction in France in 2009, two lots caught everyone's attention. The two auction items are a bronze rabbit head and a rat head, and the total length of the auction of the two lots is only
At christie's auction in France in 2009, two lots caught everyone's attention. The two auction items are a bronze rabbit head and a rat head, and the total length of the auction of the two lots is only
At christie's auction in France in 2009, two lots caught everyone's attention. The two auction items are a bronze rabbit head and a rat head, and the total length of the auction of the two lots is only

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