broken mirror, marriage, princess lechang, reunion, sui dynasty

A Broken Mirror Joined Together Again

The Chinese idiom, “a broken mirror joined together again,” expresses the idea of a couple being reconciled or reunited after a period of separation. It has its origins in a story about Princess Lechang of the Southern Chen Dynasty and her husband, the scholar and poet Xu Deyan. In the last years of the Northern ...

Helen London

Princess Lechang.