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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.

This lone, empty boat stands on the River Bian at the very beginning of the painting. Among the thirty ships in the painting, this is by far the structurally simplest one. It is seen here in the rural region, and such a simple rowboat is not to be…

This marks the beginning of the Bian River in the painting. It runs through virtually the entire painting, and it is, in many ways, what shaped the entire city-scape of Kaifeng. It is also what connects the rural and urban parts of the city.

A restaurant besides the river.

A restaurant besides the bridge.

A restaurant sitting in the suburb. The restaurant keeper is erecting a pole with banners, telling us that the restaurant is about to open.