#poemwall

See the stairs? Before building codes, people had all the creative freedom on how to get home. The building ia part of a landmark is called the Changde Poem Wall (常德诗墙). It is a long cultural floodwall located along the Yuanjiang River in Changde, Hunan Province, China. The wall stretches over 3 kilometers and features more than 1,200 poems from different dynasties—including calligraphy and stone carvings from poets both ancient and contemporary.