I walked the northeast corner of the old Nanjing city walls. I could see my towering hotel building in the distance, looking like a matte painting in a particularly trite science fiction flick.
The city wall offered helpful advice.
That’s fair, that’s fair.
Here’s another shot of the city wall and my hotel in the distance. Atop the wall you can see the Olympic rings from when Nanjing hosted the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics.
In this corner of the city, the city wall skirts along the Xuanwu Lake, a lovely place with islands connected by arched bridges with the Purple Mountain visible in the distance.
I saw this beautiful (smog-free) picture of the lake plastered on a walled off area under construction.
The phrase “一花一木皆是景, 一言一行要文明” translates as something like “Flowers and wood are all King, the words and deeds of civilization.”