The photo is of white stenciled lines, Chinese characters, and numbers on the rough black surface of a street. I'm pretty sure the characters indicate the time you're allowed to park/not park in this spot.

City streetside parking space on tarmac*.

Short for tar-macadam, from tar + McAdam, the guy who developed "macadamized pavement." I love etymology 😀

*Maybe asphalt - they seem to be interchangeable here.

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A few seconds of #bedlam. They can do this for an hour at a time.

After Bethlem Royal Hospital, the psychiatric hospital from back when insane asylums were not great places to be. ALT in comments.

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