Branch Wine Shop - Front Entrance (Text)

Branch Wine Shop - Front Entrance

A branch wineshop (&#33139;&#24215;) outside of the city wall. A board outside of the wineshop says "Ten Thousand Branch Wineshop (&#21313;&#21315;&#33139;&#24215;)." Note the flag hanging outside of the wineshop which says "New Wine (&#26032;&#37202;)." In the Song, "new wine" was a kind of wine brewed in the autumn.<br/><br/>The customers who sit around a table in second-floor room of the branch wine shop. Outside the window, the woman accompanying them rests her arm on the railing as she gazes down the street. (Hansen, 1996b, sec.16)