I don’t know the exact story of this wall, but the marks are how the Chinese count or tally things up by five, the way Americans make four parallel lines with a diagonal one for each group of fives. Do you think kids did this? Someone else?
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Beijing Daily Photo 2 
Interesting – what do you suppose they were counting?
Days in the clink…?
Well, it’s an exterior wall so days outside? I’m not sure.
Or the writer’s family name was On Lee and he signed If On Lee
That could be. It’s a mystery.
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