乐昌破镜
Traditional form:
樂昌破鏡
Pinyin (reading):
Lèchāngpòjìng
Definitions:
- lit. the story of the broken mirror of Princess Lechang 樂昌公主/乐昌公主 ( Lèchāng Gōngzhǔ) (In the tale, the princess and her husband, fearing separation during the turbulence of war, broke a bronze mirror in half. They each kept one half as a token, with the promise to reunite by matching the pieces together. They were indeed separated, but eventually reunited, with the mirror playing a crucial role in their reunion.) (idiom)
- fig. the reunion of separated lovers or the restoration of a relationship
Characters:
- 乐 - cheerful, happy, laughing; music
- 昌 - sunlight; good, proper; prosperous
- 破 - to break, to rout; to ruin, to destroy
- 镜 - mirror, glass; lens, glasses
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