Since the Opium War in 1840, the great powers began carrying on a great robbery and loot of the Chinese cultural relics. In 1860, Anglo-French allied armies robbed and burned Garden of Perfection and Brightness. Before leaving this Royal park, they sold some of the Chinese robbed rarities in the city of Peking because of taking excessive gold and silver treasures. In 1990, the extremely weak ruling of Qing Dynasty government and Republic government led to the loot of those precious cultural relics and ancient books collected in Royal family such as the Complete Library in the Four Branches of Literature, Yong Le Da Dian and etc. According to incomplete statistics, now in 47 national museums all over the world, more than one million cultural objects have been lost.
    The 12 Chinese Zodiac Signs bronze beast head, originally placed on the fountain pool square of Hai Yan Hall, stand for the 12 hours for a day, every other hour, the symbolic animal representing its particular time would erupt water pillar from the spraying mouth, forming a parabola into the central part. Whenever at the noon, the mouths of the 12 animals jet water pillar at the same time, and it is really a magnificent scene.
    Face the great quantities of precious cultural objects lost abroad, domestic cultural objects field and some privates spent a great sum of money on purchase of the present ox-head, tiger-head, monkey-head pig-head from the abroad which have already returned our motherland and now collected in the Royal park. 
    The bronze beast heads in Garden of Perfection and Brightness had been changed hands for several times. Between 1861 and 1963, bronze monkey head and ox head were sold publicly. In 1985, an American curio 
Shopkeeper unconsciously discovered three such bronze articles near the pond in an American’s park in California, and then he purchased the three state treasures at ＄1,500 for each. In 1987, a Taiwan curio collector successfully bided for the bronze monkey head through telephone at New York Sotheby’s at the price of ＄165,000; in 1989, also the same collector bought bronze ox head for ￡148,000, bronze tiger head for ￡137,000, bronze horse head for ￡181,000 at London Sotheby’s, which attracted a great attention in Taiwan cultural relics circle at that time. All the four articles had hold special exhibitions and were sold to different Taiwan collectors the second year. And later there was on information about whether they were sold to others and how they were circulated to auction fairs.
    In spite of continuous warnings from State Cultural Relics Bureau and protestations from Hong Kong, Hong Kong Christie’s and Sotheby’s   respectively hold remarkable‘Spring Royal Selected Articles Auctions of Garden of Perfection and Brightness’and ‘China Porcelain and Craftwork Auction’ on the afternoons of April 30th, and May 2nd, 2004. On these auctions, Beijing Poly Auction made a successful purchase of the bronze monkey head at the price of  HK＄8,185,000, the bronze ox head of  HK＄7,747,000 and the tiger head of  HK＄14,000,000 into our motherland.
    On Sept. 9th, 2003, Poly Artistic Museum and Oversea Lost Cultural Relics Special Committee hold press release in Hong Kong and announced to the world: Doctor He Hongshen, President of Hong Kong Xin De Group, generously donated over six million yuan for the returning and reunion of the three bronze animal heads.
Apart from the four articles, among the 12 Zodiac animals, mouse head and rabbit head are now collected in France; horse head in Taiwan; the other five namely dog, dragon, snake, chicken, sheep heads cannot still be found.
    Since 1997, Shaanxi Wende Auctions Co., Lid. experienced hard and long collections, and made great effort to excavate the rarities at home and abroad, urging the return of the cultural objects.
    Zi Tan, was lot. 315, at New York Christie’s on Dec. 20th, 2004. The flat surface of the imperial chair, made of soft wood covered with rosewood, inlaid with plated seat part colored in persimmon brown, incised with bats and lotus in blossom; armrests and leaning part with dragons in high relief; the inside of the leaning part also with the same decorations but the reverse with lotus in low relief. Of rosewood texture, this chair was used in imperial court and carved delicately with stateliness and power. Its every detail part demonstrated the dignity and luxury of the emperors and it came from Garden of Perfection and Brightness (recorded in 2005 Curio Auction Almanac curio furniture p.6-7, ranking among the top ten list of ancient furniture auctions ). It was lost abroad during the early period of 20th century namely 1920, and later collected by an American collector, Mrs. Audrey Love who was born in 1903, and whose life hobby was the collection and charity affairs for artworks. And her husband Cornelius Ruxton Love, whose favor for the collection of curios and artworks originated from the Chinese artwork, carried a lot on his visit to China. found this chair auctioned abroad, Wende company made it back to our motherland without delay and with great efforts, and finally transported to Hong Kong and then to Shaanxi. 
    Another Bronze Figure of Arhat Gilt in Lacquer, Yuan – Early Ming Dynasty, lot 1440, on May 11, 2007, launched a successful auction. It came from Yi He Tuan battle, when insurgence swept the whole Peking city and horror-struck Qing government and German general colluded with other parties drove out Yi He Tuan troops and then German armies occupied the Forbidden City of Peking soon, and looted every corner of the Imperial court, but sold part of their loots in the street before leaving  because of taking excessive articles. and the collector’s grandfather happened in Tianjing at that time and then carried this Buddha back to Germany. During the Second World War, the lacquer gilt feel off because of bomb attacks. This figure was extremely similar to this bronze-gilt Buddha at the Christie’s, Hong Kong, on Oct. 2, 1991. After precise research, Wende company made a final decision to buy it back to China at the price of ￥5,000,000. Overseas Chinese rarities not only witness the important history of ancient Chinese civilization, but also represent the top artist development of different periods. 
    It is not a long way to buy back those lost cultural relics. UNESCO put forward a modern international principle in 1995: any object robbed or lost abroad because of battle should be returned to China without any time limit, which had gain the great support from the international society.
    The cultural information carried in history cultural relics only could be discovered in their original area.
We genuinely expected the real return of the Chinese rarities lost abroad.