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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…