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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

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…

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…