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Abstract: It is a traditional folk custom in China’s Central Shaanxi Plain to “play with lanterns” to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Little Zhaodi has received a lantern from her uncle and is happy to join her playmates in the game. In a merry and poetically expressive voice, the narrator tells about a childhood that today mostly only exists in people’s recollections. Zhu Chengliang vividly illustrates the festive atmosphere and the joyfulness of the playing children against the backdrop of snow-covered village streets, evoking a sense of nostalgia in the realization that all this will soon be over, just like the tradition itself. Zhu Chengliang is the illustrator of “Tuan Yuan” (A New Year’s Union), which was selected into The New York Times Best Illustrated Children’s Books of 2011. He was nominated for the Hans Christian Andersen Award in 2016. Wang Yage is a young writer majoring in Classical Chinese Literature. “Da deng long” is her debut in picture books.