A Dream of Red Mansions is one of the four classical literature works of China. The story reveals the social changes of late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty, with the romantic and tragic love story between Jia Baoyu and Lin Diayu as its main thread. It also portrayed more than 400 dramatics persons each with distinctive and vivid personalities. A Dream of Red Mansions is an immortal masterpiece with high ideology and artistic contents, and it radiates extraordinary splendour in the literature history in China and the world.

To carry forward Chinese traditional culture, the People's Bank of China will offer Chinese Classical Literature Works --- A Dream of Red Mansions Commemorative Colored Gold and Silver Coins (The 3rd Set) to coin collectors.