The scenes really remind me of the painting "Along the River During the Qingming Festival"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Along_the_River_During_the_Qin...

The juxtaposition really brings out how isolationist they were back then. A country that is like a time capsule to the Tang dynasty

It's like if there was an island full of people still wearing Roman togas and going to the local hippodrome