While it would be impossible to prohibit the entire citizenry from cooking at night, the city's emphasis on public safety is well worth emulating. It was not a case where, as a Chinese expression goes, "officials warmed themselves by bonfires, while the people could not light their lamps."
雖然今天不可能要人們入夜後不准生火煮炊，但汴京對公共安全的重視，顯然絕非只准州官放火，不准百姓點燈。