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

The first major intersection inside the city gate. It has many different kinds of shop on all sides. People of different occupations, engaging in different business, commingled on the streets, in this apparently open urban space. Here and elsewhere…

A Tax Office located besides the entrance gate of the city. It taxes all the goods passing through the gate. Merchants stand with their goods in front of an official writing at a table. They may be paying a value-added tax on the goods they are…

A Tax official sitting in the Tax Office right next to the city gate examining tax documents of the merchants at a table. The merchants may be paying a value-added tax on the goods they are bringing into the city.

A Buddhist temple is located outside of the city. On both sides of the entrance gate are the guardian deities. A monk is standing in front of the temple.

These thatched-roof cottages, unique to the rural area in the scroll, provide a distinct contrast to the titled rooftop that are seen throughout the entire painting.

An extension on the roof top on this riverside structure, perhaps to guard against rain.

The tiled rooftop is by far the most ubiquitous architectural element seen in the scroll. Aside from the few thatched-roof cottages in the rural area in the beginning of the scroll, every single building in the scroll has a titled rooftop.

Here,…

The tow-rope reaches its end on the path above the river, where five trackers are pulling it upstream, against the current. (Hansen, 1996b, sec.12)

Two women with their hair in buns consult a man. He may well be the pharmacist whose name appears on the sign above their heads: "Official Zhao's House" (趙太丞家). The other signs advertise cures for various ailments. The…