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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…

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.

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.

Some sailors resting on their boat. They just passed through the bridge, and are looking at the other boat passing through with leisure.

The sailors on the boat are hurriedly lowering the mask of the boat in order to avoid a collision with the bridge.

Two groups of sailors standing on the two ends of the boat heave with efforts as they use two sculling oars to guide their boat downstream.

Eight men heave with efforts as they use a sculling oar to guide their boat downstream (to the viewer's right). (Hansen, 1996b, sec.12)

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.