千里搭长棚，没有不散的宴席

even if you build a thousand-league awning for it, every banquet must come to an end (idiom)

thousand

see 鞦韆|秋千[qiu1 qian1]

a thousand miles / a thousand li (i.e. 500 kilometers) / a long distance

variant of 裡|里[li3]

lining / interior / inside / internal / also written 裏|里[li3]

li, ancient measure of length, approx. 500 m / neighborhood / ancient administrative unit of 25 families / (Tw) borough, administrative unit between the township 鎮|镇[zhen4] and neighborhood 鄰|邻[lin2] levels

to put up / to build (scaffolding) / to hang (clothes on a pole) / to connect / to join / to arrange in pairs / to match / to add / to throw in (resources) / to take (boat, train) / variant of 褡[da1]

length / long / forever / always / constantly

chief / head / elder / to grow / to develop / to increase / to enhance

shed / canopy / shack

(negative prefix for verbs) / have not / not

drowned / to end / to die / to inundate

(negative prefix for verbs) have not; not

haven't / hasn't / doesn't exist / to not have / to not be

to have; there is / (bound form) having; with; -ful; -ed; -al (as in 有意[you3 yi4] intentional)

no; not so / (bound form) not; un-

variant of 散[san4]

scattered / loose / to come loose / to fall apart / leisurely / powdered medicine

to scatter / to break up (a meeting etc) / to disperse / to disseminate / to dispel / (coll.) to sack

see 的士[di1 shi4]

really and truly

of; ~'s (possessive particle) / (used after an attribute) / (used to form a nominal expression) / (used at the end of a declarative sentence for emphasis) / also pr. [di4] or [di5] in poetry and songs

(bound form) bull's-eye; target

(bound form) feast / repose

variant of 宴[yan4]

banquet / feast

banquet; feast

surname Xi

woven mat / seat / banquet / place in a democratic assembly / classifier for banquets, conversations etc

variant of 席[xi2] / woven mat