我国现存的铜牛南北各有一只,北方的就是闻名遐迩的北京颐和园昆明湖东堤岸边的那只铜牛,以神态生动、逼真闻名于世。该铜牛于清乾隆二十年(1755年),用黄铜铸成,故呈金黄色,有金牛之称。双角,长约2.4m,头顶距地面约1.4m,俯卧状,腹中空,背部铸有80字篆体《金牛铭》,为颐和园主要景观之一 Each of our existing copper and cow northern and southern one each have one, and the north is the famous bronze cow near the famous Kunming lake embankment at the Summer Palace in Beijing, famous for its demeanor and vividness. The copper cattle in the Qing Emperor Qianlong twenty years (1755), cast with brass, it was golden yellow, with Taurus said. Double horn, about 2.4m, overhead from the ground about 1.4m, prone, belly hollow, back with 80 characters cast “Jinniu Ming”, one of the main landscape of the Summer Palace