Lǎorén zhìjīn hái jìde dāngnián miàohuì de shèngkuàng.
The old man still remembers how grand the temple fair was in those days.
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A written word for the splendour of a big, crowded event, common in news reports and often paired with a judgment of scale: 盛况空前 'on a scale never seen before'. 盛 is shèng 'grand' here, not chéng 'to fill (a bowl)'.
