Temple of Heaven English Language Signage, 1937

The Temple of Heaven around the mid-1930s (phootgraphed by the National Geographic’s Gilbert Grosvenor who was on an extended reporting and photographing trip to Cina at the time) – attracting a variety of Chinese and foreign visitors, as you can see. But what’s that sign…. see below….

Nicely bilingual – ‘WALK ON SIDESTEPS IN ORDER TO PROTECT THE ENGRAVED STONE’