"Return in Golden Age: China's Retrieved Cultural Relics Exhibition" was launched on Sept 26 at the Minhang Museum in East China's Shanghai. The exhibition features China's cultural relics retrieved from overseas and now kept by the Poly Art Museum and the administration office of the Yuanmingyuan. Among the exhibits are bronze Chinese zodiac animal heads that belonged to the Yuanmingyuan Park, as well as bronze national treasures from ancient times.
Serving as a water clock, they took turns sprouting water every two hours and sprayed water together at noon every day, becoming a unique scene in the royal garden.
They also represented an ideal combination of eastern and Western art and technology, integrating the designs of Chinese zodiac animals and Western clock and fountain mechanics.
Twelve animal head statues of the Chinese zodiac were looted from the royal garden by Anglo-French allied forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War (1856-1860).
By now seven of them, the bronze head statues of the Ox, Monkey, Tiger, Pig, Horse, Rat and Rabbit, have returned to China, while the rest are still unaccounted for.
Digital technology was used to create an immersive experience for visitors, allowing them to see the original splendor of the water clock at the Yuanmingyuan.
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