Everyone took this opportunity to reminisce and chat, to spend this day telling their departed friends about the lives they lived now, telling them of this age of peace.
The best way to offer rites to the dead is to live better, and work harder at living.
To use fine wine in place of firecrackers, and loud songs in place of long weeping.
You and I, of this generation, ought to be thus.
The mortal world burned bright with fervor; today was truly the liveliest day the realm had seen in more than ten years, and yet Li Guanyi was still "kept" in the palace, handling dossiers with the civil officials, only just managing to finish one batch with great difficulty.
Yan Daiqing, Wen Qingyu and the others withdrew.
