Visitors to Taipei's Palace Museum from June to September will be able to view both parts of a legendary ancient Chinese painting side by side after they were separated for 360 years.

Dwelling in the Fuchun Mountains by famous Yuan Dynasty (1279-1368) painter Huang Gongwang, was split into two in a fire in 1650. After changing hands many times, the right part, 51.4 centimeters long, is kept in the mainland's Zhejiang Museum, while the left part, 636.9 centimeters long, is held in Taipei's Palace Museum.

The scroll painting vividly depicts an early autumn scene on the banks of the Fuchun River in Zhejiang Province. It is regarded as one of the greatest achievements of the traditional Chinese landscape painting technique.

An exhibition displaying both parts of the scroll painting opened in Taipei's Palace Museum Wednesday and will run until September 25.

"I have never seen this masterpiece before. It is like a dream come true," said He Shuifa, a renowned painter from the mainland, at the exhibition's opening ceremony.

The painting was completed when the artist was 82 years old, and can be considered an abstract representation of his whole life, He said.

The left part of the painting was among some 600,000 items shipped by the Kuomintang government to Taipei from the Forbidden City before it fled to Taiwan in 1949.