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千门万户瞳瞳日

千門萬戶瞳瞳日
qiānmén wànhù tóngtóng rì
quotation

Meanings

  1. 1 a thousand gates, ten thousand doors, lit by the rising sun
  2. 2 (fig.) the fresh hopeful light of New Year's Day shining on every household
  3. 3 (lit.) thousand gates, ten thousand households, rising-bright sun

Examples

春节清晨，爆竹声中，千门万户瞳瞳日，一派喜庆。
Chūnjié qīngchén, bàozhú shēng zhōng, qiānménwànhùtóngtóngrì, yīpài xǐqìng.
On Spring Festival morning, amid firecrackers, 'a thousand gates and ten thousand doors catch the rising sun' — sheer festivity.
新年伊始，千门万户瞳瞳日，象征着万象更新。
Xīnnián yī shǐ, qiānménwànhùtóngtóngrì, xiàngzhēng zhe wànxiànggēngxīn.
At the start of the new year, 'every gate and door is bright with the rising sun' — a symbol of all things renewed.

Tips

history
From 王安石《元日》(Wang Anshi, 'New Year's Day,' Northern Song, c. 1069 CE): 爆竹声中一岁除，春风送暖入屠苏。千门万户瞳瞳日，总把新桃换旧符 (With the sound of firecrackers, a year is gone; spring wind warms the Tusu wine. A thousand gates, ten thousand households lit by the rising sun — every one replaces old peachwood charms with new). Wang wrote it the year he launched his reform program; the poem is now one of the most quoted Spring Festival couplets in China.
usage
Reading: 瞳瞳 here = tóngtóng ('brightly dawning / rising-sun bright'), written sometimes as 曈曈. Always paired with 总把新桃换旧符 in the final couplet. Quoted in every Chinese New Year's editorial.

Stroke Order

千 qiān
门 mén
万 wàn
户 hù
瞳 tóng
日 rì