20 Yuan Auspicious Culture

Part of China's long-running Auspicious Culture series, which the People's Bank has issued annually since 2020 to highlight intangible cultural heritage motifs drawn from folk traditions. The 2022 release coincided with the Lunar New Year of the Tiger, grounding the iconographic program in one of the twelve zodiacal cycles that structure the broader commemorative calendar.

Mintage for issues in this series has been tightly controlled relative to China's bullion output, typically capped in the low tens of thousands — modest figures for a sovereign issuer of China's scale.