Wealth Comes to the Home by Five Roads
'Wealth Comes to the Home by Five Roads'
Yangjiabu,Shandong
52 x 30 cm
modern reprint of early 20th century image
By the end of the 19th century the Chinese economy was highly commercialized and many people made their living as travelling merchants. This picture seems to represent the wish that great profits will be returned on the success of such a venture, and that those profits will benefit the family who appear as an elderly father figure dressed in the fine robes of an official, and wives and children in the window at the top.
