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Zodiac statue display
Published: Oct 20, 2023 11:08 PM
Visitors take pictures at a special exhibition of a set of bronze Chinese zodiac statues on display in Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace in Beijing on October 20, 2023. The bronze heads were ripped from their statues when the Old Summer Palace was razed by British and French forces during the Second Opium War in 1860. Photo: Xinhua

Visitors take pictures at a special exhibition of a set of bronze Chinese zodiac statues on display in Yuanmingyuan, or the Old Summer Palace in Beijing on October 20, 2023. The bronze heads were ripped from their statues when the Old Summer Palace was razed by Anglo-French allied forces in 1860 during the Second Opium War. Photo: Xinhua