hang up lamps and drape festoons(guà dēng jié cǎi)

hang up lamps and drape festoons

Hang a red light and tie a colored silk, a Chinese idiom. The Pinyin is Gu à D à ngji é C à I, which means to hang a red light and tie a colored silk to show happiness. From Dangkou Zhi.

Idiom usage

The local tyrants, bad peasants, landlords and rich people in the Taiping stockade were hanging lanterns and singing operas that night with the money from the peasants' rent of grain.

Analysis of Idioms

Zhang dengjiecai

The origin of Idioms

"Dangkouzhi" chapter 116: "on that day, the drum music, hanging lights and decorations, can not say that the cotton embroidery glory, a period of wealth."

Idiom explanation

Hang the red light and tie the colored silk. It's a celebration.

Chinese PinYin : guà dēng jié cǎi