After 163 years, four of the twelve Chinese zodiac animal heads collected by the Poly Art Museum, the ox, monkey, tiger, and pig heads have returned to the Old Summer Palace. Together with the horse head collected by the Old Summer Palace management office, they will be displayed in a special exhibition of the five bronze Chinese zodiac animal heads of the Old Summer Palace. The special red copper material, exquisite production technology, and ingenious structural design of those bronze heads possess high cultural, artistic, aesthetic, and technological value, both at that time and more than a hundred years later. #artandculture

时隔163年，由保利艺术博物馆收藏的圆明园十二兽首铜像之牛首、虎首、猴首、猪首重回圆明园，与圆明园管理处收藏的马首一起亮相“五首重聚·故园新语”圆明园兽首铜像特别展览。兽首特殊的红铜材料、精湛的制作工艺、巧妙的结构设计，不论在当时还是一百多年后的今天，都具有极高的文化内涵、艺术造诣、审美水平和科技价值。

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