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Introduction to Lantern Festival Verses and Ancient Poems

# Lantern Festival # IntroductionLantern Festival, as an important national traditional festival, has also become the main subject of poets. The poets and artists have created many poems about the Lantern Festival, which have added to the cultural meaning of the festival. The following is a collation of Lantern Festival poems and ancient poems, welcome to read!

1. Introduction to Lantern Festival poems and ancient poems

1. The wheel of the law is turning in the sky, the sound of Brahma is coming from the sky; the lamp tree trunk light, the flower flame seven branches open.

This poem vividly records the Lantern Festival at that time, but also exposes the feudal emperor's extravagance and ignorance.

Su Wei (648-705), a native of Luancheng, Zhaozhou, was a poet of the Tang Dynasty, whose "Night of the Fifteenth Day of the First Moon" is a superb masterpiece depicting the Lantern Festival pomp and circumstance.

The poem: the fire tree silver flowers, star bridge iron locks open; dark dust with the horse to go, the bright moon by people. Tour all fall Li, line song all fall plum; Jingwu can not restrain the night, the jade leaks do not rush.

Spring has just revealed a bit of news, is not the world, but the lights fall, on both sides of the road, deep in the garden mapping out the brilliant glow, simply like bright flowers. From the description of "fire trees and silver flowers", it is not difficult to imagine, this is what a wonderful night scene! The bridge over the moat is usually dark and gloomy, but today it has changed into a new holiday dress, decorated with countless bright lights. The moonlight shines to every corner of people's activities, which' turned out to be this brilliant festival of lights, it is the wind and clear in the light of the lamps and moonlight, the flowery songs are dressed up extraordinarily beautiful, they walk on one side, singing the tune of "Plum Blossom Falls" on the other side. Lantern Festival in Chang'an City, really can't get enough of it. As the saying goes, "the day of entertainment is short", unknowingly, it will be late at night, but people are still in a mood of infinite attachment, hoping that this annual Lantern Festival will not pass by in a hurry. The two lines of "I can't help it" are a universal psychological depiction. The whole poem focuses on depicting the brilliant scenery of the Lantern Festival in Chang'an City and the joyful mood of ten thousand people.

2, jade funnel copper pot and do not rush, iron gate gold locks open all night; who can see the moon can sit idly, where to hear the lights do not seem.

The night of the Lantern Festival, despite the lifting of the curfew, but the bell and drum tower of Chang'an City, is still on the clock. ("Jade hourglasses and silver pots", ancient timekeeping instruments.) People hoped that time would pass more slowly, and the gates of the city would remain open until dawn tonight, so that "the days of pleasure are short", as the saying goes. Who wouldn't come to enjoy the moonlight, and who wouldn't go to see the beautiful lights in the city? (Even if the usual foot does not cabinet women, often also take this opportunity to take with the intention of the crowd, traffic, lights flashing, flowers like brocade in the capital city Lantern Festival night scene such as in the present. This poem describes the city of Chang'an Lantern Night spectacle and social customs, folk customs, etc., write words, poetic.

3, Jinli open Fang Banquet, Lan Hongyan early years. The red and colorful colors are far away from the ground, and the light is far away from the sky. The stars are falling from the sky, and the moon is hanging from the building. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new pair of shoes or boots.

After the new New Year's Day, people are busy worship festival, New Year's Day, although the new clothes and food, entertainment and enjoyment of the activities is relatively small; Lantern Festival will break this dull atmosphere, the new positive celebrations pushed to a high tide. Colorful Lantern Festival lights will be decorated with colorful earth, and even has been stretched with Wu Hao sky dome connected to a piece of the distant (light) as if a little star falling to the ground, by the building (light) like a bright moon hanging high. To add color to this festival, of course, but also the laughter of beautiful girls.

After the Song Dynasty, the Lantern Festival is more lively and prosperous unprecedented, people not only in the festival night to watch the lanterns and enjoy the moon, but also enjoy the song and dance games. More romantic is that young men and women are often in this happy and peaceful days more free to reach the meaning of love.

4, last year's New Year's Eve, the flower market lights like day. The moon to the willow head, people after dusk. This year's New Year's Eve, the moon and lights are still the same. I don't see anyone from last year, but I have tears on my sleeves.

This is the first time a young girl writes a poem about her love for her lover. The first time I saw you, I was so happy to see you, and I was so happy to see you. The first part of the song is about the love of the world. "The moon on the top of the willow" two lines of words and meaning endless, tenderness and honey overflowing. The next piece of writing this year's scenery is still the same, but things are not the same, and the first piece of a stark contrast. Touching sadness, sadness, tears wet spring shirt. All of this reflects the innocence and beauty of the young girl and her love. In the words of the present and the past, sadness and happiness are intertwined with each other, before and after the reflection, expresses the things are not the same, unbearable feelings.

Another of his lyrics, The Flowers of the Imperial Belt, also depicts the hustle and bustle of New Year's Eve in the capital city:

Where is the good scenery of youth? The emperor favors the New Year's Eve. The emperor preferred the New Year's Eve. 10,000 heavy colorful fabrics, a screen of peaks and mountains, half the sky gold and blue. The cheese is silver and red, and the reddish-red curtains, dragons and tigers are tossed. The sandbanks are far away, carving wheels and embroidered hubs, scrambling away from the five king's house.

Yongxixi painting, will be the music house goddess, sea cave immortal guests. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The moon light cold light, gradually to silence. When the young, crazy heart has not been, not drunk how to return?

The Northern Song Bianjing Yuanxi clamor in the Song poetry, notes contained, Ouyang Xiu is the earlier use of words to express the form of this - a scene of prosperity. Main Street, "Zengcai" paved, gold and blue; lanterns silver thorium, colorful; "carving wheel embroidered hub", to and from; beauty "God Ji", dazzled, a hustle and bustle of peace! happy scene. At this event, "crazy heart has not been" of the "young" should be as happy as possible and return. Singing of peace and prosperity, later became a major theme of the Song lyrics, Ouyang Xiu words at its beginning.

5, a thousand riders try spring tour. The rain is like a crisp fall will be collected. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm going to be able to do it," he said. The white wine is silent and slippery.

Flying fire messy planet. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first state to go to is Huainan.

The first sentence of the first piece of this lyric is written in the spring tour of the crowd in high spirits, so that people are the first to feel the different weather changes with the winter, but such as crispy drizzle did not make the tourists run away from the four scattered, because the drizzle seems to be still no, but added infinite interest, but also make the author of this want to resign from the pensioner's return, stay not. The next piece of writing due to the late stay, so the words can mess" and the embodiment of the beauty. On the other hand, the mountain color is clear and bright, horizontal wave and go, so the earthly paradise lingering, so Suzhou should be a place around Huainan.

2. Introduction to Lantern Festival verses and ancient poems

1, the lights of Qiantang three or five nights. The moon is as frosty as the moon, illuminating the people like a picture. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world.

The lonely mountain town is also old. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

These words were written at the time of Su Shi's exile in Mizhou, and the people celebrated the Lantern Festival in a lively and entertaining way. The moon is as frosty as a painting," writing out the splendor of the lights and the moon, making the whole lyric seem to brighten up. "Blowing the pianoforte at the bottom of the tent and spitting out musk, this kind of flavor should be priceless", writes out the lively Shangyuan and the preciousness of human feelings. The next piece is about being in the lonely mountain town of Mizhou today. Although from the "lonely mountain city people old", "cold fire lamps sparse frost dew, dusky snowy clouds hanging wild", see Su Dongpo revealed the feeling of loneliness, but also by the "drums and blowing xiao, the first person farming community ", see his willingness to suffer with the people of Mizhou **** feelings. On the one hand, "the bottom of the tent to blow the pianoforte incense spit musk" priceless flavor, on the other hand, is the dim snow. Su Shi, in the scenery, and "people are old" is the heart of the helpless sigh of exhaustion.

2, the wind pinned Jiang Jiang wax, moist dew red lotus, flower market light shot. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. The clouds are scattered, and the Gengxue E wants to go down. The clothes are light and elegant. Look at the slender waist of a Chu woman. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones.

Because I miss the night of the capital city. The first time I saw you, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. The clear leakage shift, flying cover return, from the dance to rest song strike.

The first piece of writing the local Lantern Festival night incomparable wonderful magical realm: "wind pin", "moist dew" four words, will be all night Tengjian meaning baking and dyeing all over the paper. "Flower market light shooting" both the light and the moon, but also said hundreds of millions of lanterns, save the light column color, this and that light, interactive light; more that ten thousand people empty alleys, out of the city to see the lanterns people. "Guihua flow tile" is written in the first full moon, down to the earth building. "Fiber clouds scattered" means that the night sky is like a wash, and the white spirit is twice as bright. When Chang'e meets this good time, she can't help but want to go down to the world to share the joy, which not only doubles the beauty of the earth, but also subtly leads to countless women on earth. The phrase "elegantly dressed" echoes the previous phrase "plain" in writing about the elegance of the women. The words "Chu women" and "slender waist" are preceded by the word "look", which is a reference to the Lantern Festival on New Year's Eve. "xiao drum clamor, silhouettes, full of incense and musk", from the auditory, visual interaction floating, because of the idea of "lead up, a stroke to restore, so that the flow of time, the reader back to the year when the Tokyo Bianliang thought of the time, thousands of doors and tens of thousands of households, enjoying the fun, "such as the day! The word "as day" is used to dramatize the sheng of the moon and lights of the year. The same metaphor is used in "Last year's New Year's Eve, the lights in the flower market were like daytime". However, on the New Year's Eve in Bianzhou, there were Tin car and BMW, and fragrant scarf and handkerchief. "The dark dust goes with the horse, and the bright moon comes with the man", using Su flavor on the Yuan dynasty poem, secretly writing about teenage love, the horse chasing the scented car, and the man picking up the handkerchiefs, which is the only way and the only time to express the love of men and women at that time without any chance of getting acquainted with each other. A few strokes, recalling the heyday of the capital, to this point. The word "old love" is the main eye of a piece, and unlimited feelings, unlimited nostalgia, only "because of the idea" to save mention, "but only to see" singing sighs, "clear leaks "In the following lines, there is a sound of endlessness and a sense of frustration. The three words "clear leakage" echo each other with "wind" and "moist dew", and the beginning and the end are the same. When I drive back, it is hard to find my old feelings, and I let others continue to sing and dance. This word with refined language, clever ideas, not only wrote the local Lantern Festival scene, but also associated with the capital on the Yuan Festival, at the same time expresses the career disillusionment, far away from the capital, depression and loneliness of the feelings.

3. The setting sun is melting gold, the twilight clouds are merging together, where are the people? The willows are dyed with smoke, and the plum flute is blown, so how many times do you know about the spring? The Lantern Festival, melting weather, the next is not without wind and rain? The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on some of the most popular products and services in the world, and then you'll be able to get your hands on some of the most popular ones.

Zhongzhou days, boudoir more leisure, remember to favor three or five. The first time I saw this is when I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. I would like to go under the curtain and listen to the laughter.

Li Qingzhao's early life is relatively stable and comfortable, her father Li Gefei was a scholar at the time, her husband Zhao Mingcheng official to the state and county administrators, the works are mostly written about life after marriage, especially with her husband Zhao Mingcheng, short-term separation of "parting sorrows and bitterness", the content of most of them are confined to the personal feelings of the small circle, the lack of a deep social content. The content is mostly confined to a small circle of personal feelings and lacks deep social content. When she was 44 years old, the Jin soldiers invaded and the Song family fled south, she fled south with Zhao Mingcheng, and soon after, Mingcheng died of an illness, so she had to go into exile alone, suffering from the pain of the country's destruction and the misery of being uprooted. This made her later works permeated with deep thoughts of her homeland. This kind of feeling is expressed more frankly in her poems, but more subtly and euphemistically in her lyrics.

The first part of the poem is about the sadness of living in a foreign land during the Lantern Festival, comparing the happiness of the objective reality and the bleakness of her subjective mood. The first two lines of the "sunset melting gold, twilight clouds together", write the evening clear, is the degree of good weather festival, the mood is open, colorful. Immediately after the "where" four words, pointing out their own situation: wandering in a foreign land, homeless, with the auspicious day in stark contrast. "The season is early spring, and the first line is about the visualization of the early spring. The first sentence from the visual point of view, written in early spring, the first willow is covered by light smoke; the next sentence from the auditory pen, through the flute comes the mournful tune, associated with "laying down the plum like snow chaos" of the early spring scenery. All around full of spring, pleasant scenery, but in the eyes of the lyricist, after all, "spring know how many", is far from being very rich. Although it is the "Lantern Festival good but the changes in the country over the years, body born "things are not the same", "good scenery no longer" feeling. So in the "melting and the weather", immediately pointed out that "the second is not light in the spring and mixed into a thick hidden worry. Although the weather is good, but do not have the heart to enjoy. Therefore, although there are "wine friends and poets" with "fragrant cars and horses" to invite her to go to the moonlight, but also had to politely decline. The ostensible reason is afraid to run into the "wind and rain", in fact, is the current national tragedy, has lost the mood to enjoy the moon and lanterns. If it is in the year of peace and prosperity, the situation is very different. In this way, the poet naturally turned to the year when the Bianjing festival memories up.

The second part of the lyric emphasizes the author's joyful mood of the Lantern Festival in Bianjing before the South China Sea crossing the border, and compares it with the current bleak scene. At that time, the Song dynasty in order to embellish the peace, the Lantern Festival in the extreme extravagance. According to the "Song Xuanhe Remains", "from the beginning of the waxing moon until the 16th day of the first month", "every house was lit up, and every place was piped with strings." The lyrics, "spreading the green crown, twisting the golden snow willow, and clustering the belt to compete with Jichu", was written precisely when the author was in a happy mood with his girlfriends and female companions, and the scene of the dress up trip. However, the good times do not last forever, the Jin soldiers invaded, they only ended up drifting to a different place. Now people are old, emaciated, gray hair disheveled, although again worth the festival, but which still have the heart to go out to enjoy it? "How about to the curtain, listen to people laughing", more contrasted the lyricist sad and lonely state of mind. At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Liu Chenweng, a patriotic lyricist, read this lyric and "shed tears for it", and filled in a lyric with a strong patriotic tone according to its tune, which shows the depth of Li Qingzhao's touching lyrics. The word through the south ferry after the Lantern Festival after the two scenarios, sad and lonely feelings. The whole word is a mixture of scenarios, and has a good sense of ups and downs. From the present to the past, and from the past to the present, sincere. The language in the simple to see fresh, plain to see the work.

4. The east wind releases thousands of flowers at night, blowing down stars like rain. The BMW carving car is full of incense. The phoenix xiao sound, jade pot light turn, a night of fish and dragon dance.

The moths of the snow willow gold strands, smiling and dark incense to go. The first time I looked for him, I looked back, but he was in the end of the lights.

The work is first written in the brilliant lights, singing and dancing lively scene. The flowers of a thousand trees, stars like rain, jade pots turn, fish and dragons dance, are said to be the lights of the more, the shape of the lights of the rich. Really full of lights and colors, unprecedented. Then write the joy of tourists and horses all night long. Some of the people watching the lanterns came by car and horse, and there are also women with moths, snow willow, gold and other fine jewelry in the head. In the city of revelry night, but the lyricist took the opportunity to watch the lights, and the love of the meeting, waiting for a long time not to come, look forward to the time, and then saw that the person but in the "lights beyond the lights". Ancient poets wrote poems about the Lantern Festival, countless, Xin Qiji's this one, but the best, twisted and subtle, ironic and meaningful, the aftertaste is not exhaustive. The work is extremely write the Lantern Festival's prosperous scene, but also expresses the love of a lonely beauty. Liang Qichao believes that the purpose of this word is "self-pity and loneliness, sad people have other embraces."

5, fat water flowing east endless period, at first did not meet the kind of lovesickness. The first time I saw it, I was in the middle of a dream, and it was not as if I could see it in the dark, but I was surprised by the birds.

Spring is not yet green, sideburns first silk, the world is not a long time sad. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

The title of the lyrics: "Yuanxian has a dream", this is Jiang Kui in the night of the Lantern Festival made a dream, the beginning of the fat water "endless period" to write, a metaphor for the endless period of lovesickness. "When it was not suitable to plant Acacia in the first place, it was not suitable to plant the feelings, which makes the pain of today more obvious. I saw you in my dream, but your face was blurred, but even the vague dream was awakened by the sound of bird cries, echoing the pain of "planting lovesickness". The next piece of writing more than 20 years hurt spring as the same long thought. "The world is not a long time to grief," is the passion has been externalized into a hidden internal, so every year the festival of lights are only "two places in silence", each painful thoughts, doubly sad.

6, to get rid of clothing and makeup everywhere meet, six street lights alarm children. I am also a long shirt, but also in the tourists laugh.

Tang Yin (1470-1523), Ming Dynasty painters, poets, the first talent. His erudition and versatility, chanting poetry and composing music, experience ups and downs, is China's painting outstanding painters. Tang Yin's character Bo Hu, even more character Zi Ai, the number of peach blossom nunnery, Lu Guo Tang Sheng, fleeing Zen Xian Shi and so on. In his later years, he believed in Buddhism and was known by the alias Liuyi Jutu. Tang Yin's poems are unique and natural. In his later years, his lack of discipline was especially evident in his poems, which were often expressed in his poems. The streets are full of beads and emeralds, the village women, the boiling ground of the pith and song race social god. The first thing you need to do is to ask your friends and family how they would like to see you.

The Lantern Festival not only let the poets of the past generations of poetry, write, but also in the folk evoke people's vision of a happy life and praise, many ballads to the popular and lively language of the Lantern Festival vivid description, such as the Hebei nursery rhymes, "the wind came": "the wind came, the rain came, a group of people knocking drums to come. What drums, big flower drums, dong dong dong dong, over fifteen days." This is a popular nursery rhyme in some areas of Hebei, before the Lantern Festival, the children jumped and read, a piece of eagerly looking forward to the Lantern Festival mood, jumped off the paper.

3. Lantern Festival poems and ancient poems

"Lantern Night Treading"

Hundreds of branches of the fire tree thousands of gold shoes, BMW incense and dust not stop. The first time I saw you, I was so happy to see you, and I was so happy to see you.

The stone bridge road slippery light yellow fishing tiptoe, to the mother said low. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to do that, but I think I'm going to be able to do it. The first thing you need to do is to go back to your home, and then you can go back to your home, and then you can go back to your home.

The night lights of the 15th day of the first month

Thousands of doors were opened and ten thousand lights were lit, and in the middle of the first month, the earth was moved to the capital.

Three hundred people in the house danced with their sleeves, and a word was written in the sky.

The first night of the new year, the shadow of eternal ice lanterns

The fire tree is a thousand spring Yan, and suddenly saw the clear light reflected in the moon.

The sharks are still in the water, and the sleeves are full of cold.

The candle is not in the way of the shadow in the air, and it is not possible to see it from the moon.

The East Wind is the only thing that can make us happy in the coming night.

I was not able to see the prosperity of the Middle Kingdom, but I was ashamed to chase the villagers away from the purple nuns.

I am also in the long shirt, but also in the laughter of the tourists.

"Good Things Near - Spring Rain Scratch Lantern Festival"

Spring Rain Scratch Lantern Festival, flowers bloom willow sleep powerless. The wind and the curtains of the painting hall are soaked with gold and red mud. The king and grandchildren are having a banquet to gather the beautiful people, and the mountains of Vietnam are washing away the sorrows of the blue. I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get it right, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get it right.

4. Lantern Festival poems and ancient poems

"fifteenth night to watch the lanterns"

Jinli open Fang Banquet, the orchid tank colorful early years.

The colorful lights of the lanterns are far away from the earth, and the light of the sky is far away from the sky.

The stars are falling from the sky, and the moon is hanging from the building.

Don't have any other kind of smile, but reflect it in front of the nine branches.

The Bamboo Words of the First Emperor

The fragrance of cinnamon is wrapped in walnuts, and the rice is like a pearl in the well.

It is said that the Ma family is good at selling Lantern Festival in the wind.

"Partridge Sky - Bun Festival of the New Year"

The night of the sealing of the chapter buckle Ziqing, five Xia deep PeiHuan sound. The stagecoach is carrying the wind and fire, the dragon and luan dance, step into the smoke sky, Kong Cui welcome.

The Yaojian is heavy, the feathered clothes are light, and the golden boy leads them to the bright sky. The three Xiangs and the five pipes are in harmony with the music of the people, and the emperor is in the same age as the emperor.

The Lantern Festival

It is not entertaining to have a lantern without a moon, and it is not a spring festival if there is a moon without a lantern.

Spring is like jade on earth, and the moon is like silver under the burning lamps.

The streets are full of pearl and green jade, and the boiling ground is full of pith and song.

The first time I saw this is when I was a young man, and I was a young woman, and I was a young woman.

The road is full of shadows of plums, and the village is full of the fragrance of wine.

The time of the day has changed, and the children of the house are clamoring.

The street is a test light, but not Guo Ximen.

The moonless night of the New Year's Eve

The city is full of lanterns, and the moon is sinking in the sea and sky.

The six australopithecines have tears in their eyes, and the sacred mountain has been lost for three years!

The willow is dyed with smoke, the plum flute is blown, how many times do you know about spring?

The New Year's Eve festival, the melting of the weather, the next is not without wind and rain?

The first thing you need to do is to get your hands on a new car, and then you'll be able to get your hands on a new car.

The Central State in the full bloom of the day, the boudoir more flaws, remember to favor three or five,

Paving green crowns, twisting the gold snow willow, tufts of belt to compete with Jichu,

Now emaciated, cloud hair and snow temples, afraid to see the night to go out.

Why don't you go under the curtain and listen to the laughter?

5. Introduction to Lantern Festival Poems and Ancient Poetry

Bianjing Yuanxi

Zhongshan Ruzi leaning on the new make-up, Zheng Nu Yan Ji is unique.

The moon is as frosty as the moon outside the Golden Beam Bridge.

The night of the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, when the lamps were built in the thoroughfare and the night of the ascension of the South Tower

The wheel of the Dharma revolves in the sky, and the sound of the Brahmins comes from the sky;

The lamps are illuminated by a thousand lights, and the flowers blossom in seven branches.

The moon's shadow is suspected to be flowing, and the spring breeze contains the plums of the night;

The burnt burnt is moving on the golden ground, and the bell is sending out on the glazed platform.

The 15th Night of the First Moon

The fire tree and the silver flower merge, the star bridge and the iron lock open.

The dark dust goes with the horse, the bright moon comes with the man.

All of them are flora and fauna, and all of them are plums.

The night is not a good time for Jingu, and the jade hourglass is not a good time to hurry.

The horse-drawn carriage is full of fragrance, the phoenix Xiao is moving, the light of the pot is turning, and the fish and dragons are dancing all night long.

Moth's snowy willow gold strands, laughing and smiling dark incense to go.

We are looking for him a thousand degrees, and when we look back, he is in the appendices of the fire.

The Magnolia Order

The Lantern Festival seems to be a good time. The first time I saw this was when I was a student at the University of California at Berkeley. The first time I saw this was when I was a kid, and the second time I saw it was when I was a kid. I'm not as proud of the plains as I am of the high sun. The actual fact is that the actual actual people are not as well as the actual people are not as well as the actual people are not as well as the actual people. I'm not sure how much I'm going to be able to do this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to do it," he said.

"Leaning over the mountain stream - Lanterns on the Lantern Festival"

Lanterns on the Lantern Festival. The moon is light and the tourists are available. The first time I saw this, I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night, and I was in the middle of the night. I'm not sure if I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this, but I'm sure I'm going to be able to get a good deal on this. The willows on the Zhangtai platform are not locked. Walkers pull the long stripes, quietly not like, when some of them. But now it's not, and the wind is blowing in the east, but I know it's not, so I'm not sure.