The Wang Family Paper Goods shop. The shop sells paper money and paper goods for worshiping ancestors and gods. Extending into the street is a paper multi-storey house. (Hansen,1996b, sec.8)
Wedding sedan chairs for carrying dowries
Water supply in the Northern Song capital of Kaifeng is scant. While people are permitted to use them, they are not allowed to dig new wells as they see fit. In the year 1046, responding to various plea for greater water supply, the Northern Song government at last made an initiative to dig more wells throughout the city which, at least for the moment, solved the problem with the shortage of water supply. In this painting, this is the only well depicted. The workers are loading up the various barrels, perhaps to be transported to various spots in the city.
A wheel shop located on the busy street. A wheelwright and his apprentice work in their small shop. The wheelwright gently taps the wooden sections of the wheel onto the spokes with a mallet, while his apprentice readies new wooden sections. They are making a wheelbarrow, whose frame lies at their feet.