Summer Palace, which 【小题1】 (literal) means “the garden of perfect brightness”, was an estate of gardens, temples, palaces and towers in the northwest of Beijing. However, it was broken into by Anglo-French in 1860, 【小题2】 numerous national treasures, including the 12 animal head statues, were taken away.

In September 2007, Stanley Ho in Macao purchased the horse-head statue at a price of HK $69. 1 million ($8.9 million). It 【小题3】 (donate) back to the country in November 2019.

On Dec 1, 2020, the horse-head bronze statue returned to its original home, 【小题4】 (make) it the first animal-head statue to have come back to Yuanmingyuan. There is good news 【小题5】 the statue will be regularly displayed in the Zhengjue Temple area in Yuanmingyuan.

“The horse’s head holds the 【小题6】   (memorize) of history and our nation’s shared emotion,” Pansy Ho Chiuking, Stanley Ho’s daughter, said at the handover ceremony. The return of the statue sets an example 【小题7】 the international community to bring more lost relics back to their 【小题8】 (origin).

So far seven of the 12 statues including the horse 【小题9】 (come) back to China, and now the rest six are housed in the National Museum of China and Poly Art Museum. The search is 【小题10】 for the remaining five: a dog, a rooster, a dragon, a sheep and a snake.

Loulan,【小题1】ancient city on the Silk Road, brings back【小题2】(image) of mystery and romanticism even as it disappears into the mists of history.

Shiji,or Records of the Grand Historian, the foundational text of Chinese history【小题3】(date) back to the first century BC, records that before the 2nd century BC,Loulan was already famous in Xiyu.【小题4】, it collapsed in about the 5th century. In 1900,Swedish explorer Sven Hedin discovered the site of ancient Loulan.

【小题5】(locate) in Lop Nur, a former salt lake which【小题6】(dry) up to a large extent now, in Ruoqiang county, Bayingolin Mongol autonomous prefecture,Xinjiang, the Loulan site covers an area of about 120,000 square meters,【小题7】extremely harsh environment ensured that few people set foot on this area. In the 1990s, when mummies were discovered in this area, grave robbers noticed the wealth of cultural relics.【小题8】(tackle)the situation, a Loulan cultural relics protection station was built in 1998. At first it was【小题9】(season), and later became permanent in 2003.

Over the years, five stations have been built in Lop Nur, and altogether 20 people【小题10】(work) at them safeguarding heritage, according to Feng Jing, director of Loulan Museum in Ruoqiang.

When the Library Cave, known as Cave 17 from the Mogao Cave Complex at Dunhuang, China, was opened in 1900, several tons of manuscripts (手稿) scrolls, booklets and paintings on silk and paper were found literally stuffed into it. These 【小题1】 (extreme) valuable writings were collected between 【小题2】 9th and 10th centuries CE, by Tang and Song Dynasty Buddhist monks who carved out the cave and then filled it 【小题3】 ancient and current manuscripts on topics ranging from religion and philosophy, history and mathematics, to folk songs and dance.

Cave 17 is only one of the 735 human-made 【小题4】 (cave) called Mogao Grottoes, 【小题5】 were dug into a loess cliff about 15 miles southeast of the town of Dunhuang in Gansu Province. Dunhuang’s long and glorious history reflects 【小题6】 (it) significance as a center of 【小题7】 (culture) and religious exchange. These caves 【小题8】 (dig) and maintained by Buddhist monks from 366 CE and were sealed and hidden about a thousand years ago. It was not until 1900 that they were rediscovered.

The Dunhuang Academy was set up in China in the 1980s, 【小题9】 (aim) to collect and preserve the manuscripts; the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) was formed in 1994 to bring the international scholars together 【小题10】 (work) jointly on the collections. The IDP has put many of the documents, images and translations online.