Vegetable Farm (Text)

Vegetable Farm

This vegetable farm, though without anyone working on it, is the only sign of any settlement in the rural area depicted in the painting. Vegetable is apparently a staple items in all the shops throughout the city, in addition to being part of the diet of the city dwellers. In the Northern Song, we began to see large-scale commercial vegetable farms, a full-fledged "commodification" of vegetable produce.