The Qianli Jiangshan Tu ("A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains") is a Northern Song dynasty handscroll attributed to Wang Ximeng, who allegedly completed it in 1113 at around eighteen years of age — making it one of the most remarkable works of juvenile artistry in Chinese imperial history. The painting passed through the collections of several Qing emperors before entering the Palace Museum in Beijing, where it remains today under strict conservation protocols that limit its public display to rare, time-limited exhibitions.
The People's Bank has drawn from this scroll across a multi-coin series. Each release isolates a different passage of the landscape.
The Qianli Jiangshan Tu ("A Thousand Li of Rivers and Mountains") is a Northern Song dynasty handscroll attributed to Wang Ximeng, who allegedly completed it in 1113 at around eighteen years of age — making it one of the most remarkable works of juvenile artistry in Chinese imperial history. The painting passed through the collections of several Qing emperors before entering the Palace Museum in Beijing, where it remains today under strict conservation protocols that limit its public display to rare, time-limited exhibitions.
The People's Bank has drawn from this scroll across a multi-coin series. Each release isolates a different passage of the landscape.