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There are a number of these ox-drawn carriages in the painting. It is not clear what types of passengers would ride in such carriages, but judging by the elaborate structure of the different carriages, it is safe to assume that the passengers belong…

An official travels on a horse, accompanied by a team of servants.

An official riding on a horse travels across the city. He is accompanied by a group of servants. In front of him are two palaquins. A woman sitting in one of them, probably the official's wife, is looking at the busy street from the window of the…

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 monk and a daoist stand side by side in a crowd of people listening to a storyteller telling a story. A literatus stands next to them.

A scholar talks to a Buddhist monk with a shaved head. (Hansen, 1996b, sec.25)

A monk standing in front of a temple.

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 bringing into the city. (Hansen, 1996b, sec.23)

A merchant sitting on the bags, supervising the laborers moving bags of grains from two boats to the shore. Notice, also, the outfit that he has on -- the loose-fitting clothing he has is decidedly not designed for manual labor. The laborers, on the…