The whereabouts of snake heads, chicken heads, dog heads, and sheep heads are currently unknown.

At present, five bronze heads of ox, tiger, monkey, pig and horse have been rescued and returned to China by patriots in 2000, 2003 and 2007 respectively, and are collected in the Poly Art Museum. It is known that the rat and rabbit heads were auctioned at a French auction house in February 2009, and the dragon head is currently in Taiwan. Information expansion:

The bronze statue of an animal head in the Old Summer Palace was cast during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. It was designed by Italian court Western painter Castiglione, supervised by Frenchman Chiang Youren, and produced by court craftsmen.

At first Castiglione wanted to build a nude female sculpture with Western characteristics, but Emperor Qianlong felt that this was against Chinese ethics and morals, so he ordered a redesign. So Castiglione took into account Chinese folk culture and replaced the human body sculptures commonly used in Western fountain designs with seated figures of the twelve zodiac animals.

The portraits of the Twelve Lives were originally placed on the 12 stone platforms on the north and south sides of the fan-shaped pool fountain in front of Haiyan Hall in the Western Tower of Yuanmingyuan. On the south bank are the rat, tiger, dragon, horse, monkey, and dog; on the north bank are the ox, the rabbit, the snake, the sheep, the rooster, and the pig. These portraits

all have animal heads and human bodies. The heads are made of copper and the bodies are made of stone. The hollows are connected to water spray pipes. Every two hours, the portraits representing that time are drawn from Water sprays from the mouth; at noon, fountains of water pour out of the mouths of the twelve portraits at the same time, creating a spectacle.

More importantly, they are the cultural inheritance of our Chinese nation for thousands of years, and they also symbolize the prosperity of our motherland.