Source: https://www.sinobanknote.net/
Schwartz (2014) remarks "We have here a portrait, not of a leader or a historical or legendary figure, but of two characteristic citizens—a worker and peasant idealized in their pose, albeit with individual physiognomies. In China, numismatic portraits of any sort are a recent innovation....realistic portraits of any sort are rare before the appearance of Sun Yat-sen’s portrait on Republican banknotes in 1923.5 Otherwise, landscapes, government buildings, and monuments are the usual images sharing pictorial fields on money cluttered with the ramified ornamentation and lettering of nineteenth-century steel engraving styles."