"Tian An Men Shines Brightly" is refered by stamp collectors as "Shines Brightly". It was issued in 1956 as one of the special stamps of "The Scenic Spots of the Capital".

On June 15,1956, the Ministry of the Posts and Telecommunication issued a set of special stamps------" The Scenic Spots of the Capital". The values in set was 5, the designs were the Summer Palace, Beihai Park, Tian An Men, the Temple of Heaven and the Hall of Supreme Harmony. The design of Tian An Men showed the scene of Tian An Men in the morning with the bright sun rising in the east, but the printing result was not good: the auspicious clouds over Tian An Men turned out to be glaring sunlight. The glaring sunlight looked very unpleasant and objections had been raised before the issue. The Ministry , therefore, decided to stop the issue of the stamps and take them back. The rest of the four stamps in the set were issued according to the original schedule. But the post offices in Jiangxi, Jiangsu, Zhejiang and other provinces had already started to sell the stamps. Although most of the sold stamps were taken back, six to seven hundred stamps or so still remained in private collections.On Feburary 20, 1957, a new version of the the stamps of "Tian An Men Shines Brightly" were issued.

This is why "Shines Brightly" is so valuable.Only a lucky few have them.

On November 21,1997, on the auction in the Second Coins and Stamps Expo '97, one new piece of S15 "Tian An Men Shines Brightly" was sold at 280,000 RMB; another new piece was sold at 295,000 RMB.