Temple interior showing altar with statue, painting, and hanging scroll at the Xincheng Caves

Interior detail of storied wooden pagoda at Tian ning si showing scroll-shaped ceramic reliefs

Altar with shrine figure, hanging scrolls, and panel with carved scene on top of a table at Xi yu si

Interior of a temple building showing a room with tables, chairs, scrolls, and latticework at Fa yuan si

Interior of a temple building showing scrolls, musical instruments, ritual objects and chairs at Fa yuan si

Temple interior showing statue of Buddha on a lotus throne with scrolls and scroll paintings at Fa yuan si

Temple interior showing altar with ritual objects, offerings of food, musical instruments, altar cloths, and hanging scrolls at Fa yuan si

Interior of temple building showing room with furniture, hanging scrolls, horizontal scroll painting with inscription, latticework, and carpet at Bai yun guan

Hand scroll opened to show illustration and text

Man at work in a bookshop

Man cutting a seal

Interior of a scroll-mounting shop showing a man retouching a scroll hanging on a drying board called a quan

Interior of a scroll-mounting shop showing a man adhering paper strips to the edge of a scroll

Carved wooden kang with inlays and hanging scrolls in a Daoist monastery on Hua Mountain

Musicians playing, hanging elegaic scrolls, and paper figure during a funeral

Musicians playing next to hanging elegaic scrolls during a funeral

Mourners in front of funeral pavilion with drum, paper figure of a servant, and hanging elegaic scrolls

Mourners and Buddhist monks with musical instruments outside a funeral pavilion adorned with elegaic inscriptions

Curbside altar with hanging scroll set up in front of a paint and dye shop during a funeral

Members of a wedding party in pavilion with lanterns, drums, litter, hanging scrolls, and banners