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千门万户曈曈日

千門萬戶曈曈日
Qiānmén wànhù tóngtóng rì
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 on a thousand gates and ten thousand households, the new sun dawns bright
  2. 2 a New Year's morning scene of light spreading over every home
  3. 3 (lit.) thousand gates ten thousand doors, the rising-sun sun

Examples

HSK 5
大年初一清晨，真有千门万户曈曈日的感觉。
Dànián chūyī qīngchén, zhēn yǒu qiānmén wànhù tóngtóng rì de gǎnjué.
The first morning of the lunar year really feels like 'a bright sun rising on every home.'
HSK 7-9
千门万户曈曈日，总把新桃换旧符，正是新年气象。
Qiānmén wànhù tóngtóng rì, zǒng bǎ xīn táo huàn jiù fú, zhèngshì xīnnián qìxiàng.
'Bright sun on a thousand gates, always replacing old peach-charms with new' - the very spirit of the New Year.

Tips

history
From Wang Anshi's (王安石, Northern Song) 《元日》: 爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。千门万户曈曈日，总把新桃换旧符 (In firecracker din, the old year ends; spring wind warms the tusu wine. Bright sun on a thousand gates, always changing the peach-charms new for old.) Written in 1069, the year Wang began his reform program - the peach-charm symbolism doubles as his political renewal.
usage
曈曈 (tóngtóng) = the just-risen sun, bright and new - a rare reduplication found almost only in this poem. 新桃 / 旧符 = peach-wood door charms, ancestors of today's 春联 spring couplets.

Stroke Order

千 qiān
门 mén
万 wàn
户 hù
曈 tóng
日 rì