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jìng zhòng yuán
nán zhāo de chén guó jiāng yào miè wáng de
shí hòu yán
miàn tóng jìng kāi
gēn liú xià bàn
hòu lái èr rén zhēn de shī
sàn le píng jiè zháo rén liú xià
de bàn miàn jìng men zuì zhōng
yòu dào tuán yuán
jìng zhòng yuán zhè chéng
shī sàn huò fēn hòu
zhòng xīn tuán
In the Northern and Southern Dynasties (南北朝,420-589AD) when the State of Chen (陈国) was facing its demise, Xu Deyan (徐德言), husband of the princess, broke a bronze mirror into halves.
Each of them kept a half as tokens in case they were separated.
Soon afterwards, they did lose touch with each other, but the two halves of the mirror enabled them to be reunited.
This idiom is used to refer to the reunion of a couple after they lose touch or break up.
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