Slogans celebrating holidays

1. Put up lanterns and streamers:

Meaning: Hang up lanterns and tie colorful silk; describe the scene of festivals or festive events.

Source: Chapter 69 of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" by Luo Guanzhong of the Ming Dynasty: Tell the residents in the city to put on all the lights and colors to celebrate the festival. It means to announce to the people, so that they can decorate with lights and streamers to celebrate the festival.

2. Crowds of people:

Meaning: The crowds are like mountains and seas. Describes a gathering of people in large numbers.

Source: Qu Qiubai's "History of the Heart of Chidu": From a distance, you can see a sea of ??people and various flags waving.

3. Noisy people:

Meaning: To describe the noisy people. Ding is an ancient copper pot, usually with three legs and two ears. Boil, water boils. The original meaning of "dingbo" is that the water in the pot is boiling and making a noise. Now it refers to the noise of the crowd, which is like a pot exploding.

Source: Volume 10 of "Eternal Words to Awaken the World" written by Feng Menglong in the Ming Dynasty: One afternoon, Liu Fang was cleaning up in the store, and he could only hear the roar of people.

4. Huoshuyinhua:

Meaning: Huoshu: a fiery red tree, which means the tree is covered with lights; Yinhua: a silver-white flower, which means the lights are bright. Describes a brilliant night scene with lanterns and fireworks.

Source: Su Weiwei's poem "The Fifteenth Night of the First Month" by Su Wei of the Tang Dynasty: The trees and silver flowers bloom together, and the iron locks of the star bridge open. It means that the bright lights are scattered all over the place, and the bright light is reflected in the depths of the garden, like delicate flowers; because it is accessible everywhere, the iron locks of the city gate are also opened.

5. Noisy gongs and drums:

Meaning: noisy: loud. The gongs and drums resounded loudly. It originally refers to beating gongs and drums to direct advance and retreat during battle. Later, it mostly describes festive and joyful scenes.

Source: Chapter 22 of Huang Xiaopei's "Dream of Prosperity in Twenty Years" in the Qing Dynasty: Zhou Yongyou responded one by one and rewarded five pieces of silver, and everyone thanked them. When I was little, the gongs and drums were noisy.