Chinese cinema traces its origin to 1905, when Ren Jingfeng filmed excerpts of the Peking opera performer Tan Xinpei at the Fengtai Photography Studio in Beijing — widely accepted as the first domestically produced Chinese film. The People's Bank has issued commemorative silver pieces marking major cinema anniversaries before, continuing a pattern of cultural commemoratives that accelerated significantly after 2000.
Chinese cinema traces its origin to 1905, when Ren Jingfeng filmed excerpts of the Peking opera performer Tan Xinpei at the Fengtai Photography Studio in Beijing — widely accepted as the first domestically produced Chinese film. The People's Bank has issued commemorative silver pieces marking major cinema anniversaries before, continuing a pattern of cultural commemoratives that accelerated significantly after 2000.