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Bamboo scaffoldings are consistently displayed in front of a wine shop, from the smallest shop on the side of a street to the wholesale wine shop just inside the city.

Bamboo scaffoldings are consistently displayed in front of a wine shop, from the smallest shop on the side of a street to the wholesale wine shop just inside the city.

There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by…

There are numerous sedan chairs in the painting. As a sedan chair requires servants to carry it, the passengers in them must be relatively affluent members of society. In fact, virtually all of the sedan chairs in the painting are each accompanied by…

Servants chasing after a horse that has galloped away.

This is the only monastery in the painting, with a lone monk (or nun) standing outside at the gate. Aside from being the abode of the various religious specialists, they often serve as shelters for the vagrants in the city as well, in addition to…

Donkeys are one of the most popular means of land transportation as depicted in the painting. They are used for carrying goods, pulling wheel carts, as well as for people to ride on them directly. Few elites, though, such as the literati or…

This is apparently a small village in this rural region outside of the city. Perhaps they are the farmers for the vegetable farm to the left.

A storyteller regales a small crowd. Among the crowd, there are a literatus, a Daoist, and monk listening to the storyteller.