A Panorama of Mountains and Rivers is the only surviving work by the Northern Song Dynasty painter Wang Ximeng. It epitomizes the green-blue Shanshui painting (Chinese landscape painting), a major genre of Shanshui painting apart from Ink Wash Shanshui. A Panorama of Mountains and Rivers is a depiction of Southern China landscape that expands over 1190cm in width. Interweaving with the six sections of mountains and waters are the intricate houses, trees, and human figures that emphasize the daily liveliness in the topography. As the viewers unfold the long scroll, a continuous narrative is exhibited from the panorama, as if from the perspective of a wandering traveler. Green-blue Shanshui is named after the use of green and blue minerals and plant dye in the process of painting, and in “A Panorama of Mountains and Rivers”, viewers will be able to observe the bold and rich coloration that blurs the outlines and forms. It is believed that Wang Ximeng finished this painting when he was 18 years old and working as a personal librarian to Emperor Huizong.