She could not believe she was standing in front of Fan Kuan’s most famous masterpiece. The legendary Chinese landscape painter of the Song Dynasty had created the large hanging scroll, entitled “Travelers among Mountains and Streams”, in 960. It had been a life-time desire to see this unique piece of art in real life, and that moment had finally come in the stillness and tranquillity of the National Palace Museum, where her close friend and curator Zhen Xi Zhao had arranged a private viewing just for her.
