"This Nanjing is the capital of Emperor Mao, with 13 doors inside and 18 doors outside. It runs through the city for four miles and along the city for more than one hundred and twenty miles. Dozens of streets and hundreds of alleys in the city are crowded with people. There is a river in the city, the east water leads to the west water pass, which is ten miles long. That's Qinhuai River. The water is full, boating, playing flute and drums, day and night. Outside the city, there were 480 temples in Panyu and Biwa Zhu Da in Gong Lin during the Six Dynasties. So far, there are more than 4,800 temples! Streets and alleys, together, there are six or seven hundred restaurants and more than one thousand teahouses. No matter you walk into a back alley, there is always a place where lanterns are hung to buy tea, flowers are inserted and it is raining. The teahouse is full of tea drinkers. At night, there are thousands of lights in the restaurants on both sides, which are as bright as during the day. People who walk don't carry lanterns. When there is moonlight in Qinhuai, the deeper the night, the more and more boat songs are played, which are sad and euphemistic and touching. Girls living in houses on both sides of the river, dressed in veils and jasmine flowers, rolled up the curtains in Hunan and leaned against the railings to listen. Then, when the drums of the lantern boat sounded, the curtains on both sides rolled open, and the burning dragon saliva, heaviness, speed and fragrant fog in the river room poured out together, blending with the moonlight smoke in the river, looking like a fairy in Yuen Long and a fairy in Yao Gong. The official prostitutes on the sixteenth floor, wearing new makeup and dazzling clothes, attract tourists from all over the world. It's really' cold food, Lantern Festival every night'! "
The Scholars