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Lantern Festival, the final event of the Spring Festival 春節|春节, on 15th of first month of the lunar calendar
HSK 7-9
all night / throughout the night
HSK 7-9
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night
midnight snack
Lantern Festival / night of the 15th of the first lunar month / see also 元夜 / sticky rice dumplings
midnight snack / late-night snack
colored lantern (used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / chaser lights / self-scrolling horizontal text display, such as a news ticker
thief / bandit / scoundrel / villain
night curfew
overnight until daybreak (idiom); all night long / day and night
Lantern Festival / night of 15th of first lunar month / see also 元宵
to dress before light and not eat before dark (idiom) / diligently attending to official matters
the same night / that very night / successive nights
night journey / punitive expedition by night
to spend the whole night
fine evening, beautiful scenery (idiom)
evening primrose
erhua variant of 夜宵
variant of 夜宵
Spring lantern riddles (guessing game at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节, at the end of Spring festival 春節|春节)
lantern with a carousel of paper horses rotating under convection, used at Lantern Festival 元宵節|元宵节 / (fig.) revolving door; musical chairs (metaphor for people being shuffled around into different jobs)


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