破镜重圆|破镜重圆的宠文
时间：2018-12-27 03:34:15 来源：柠檬阅读网 本文已影响 人 
a broken mirror joined together-reunion of husband and wife after an enforced separation or rupture
This idiom comes from Original Incidents of Poems・Emotion by Meng Qi of the Tang Dynasty. During the Chen Dynasty of the Southern Dynasties Period, the follower of the crown prince, Xu Deyan, got married with Princess Lechang,the Emperor Chen Shubao"s younger sister to be the emperor"s brother-in-law. The young couple loved each other very much. But it was just the time of great disorder under heaven.They had a premonition that they might be broken up and even go to a strange land. Then Xu told his wife: "As long as our happy fate has not finished, we are sure to have the chance to reunite with each other." And Xu broke a bronze mirror into two parts, each of them kept one of them and said:"If we are separated from each other, you will ask someone to take the half broken mirror for sale in the market on every 15th of January. As long as I am still alive, I"m sure to go there with the other broken mirror as a evidence to look for you, so I can be together with you again."
Before long, Emperor Wen, Yang Jian of the Sui Dynasty attacked the Chen"s capital, Jiankang (present-day NanJing of Jiangsu Provinc), and the State of Chen was destroyed at last.The minister Yang Su of Sui Dynasty who had made outstanding service in attacking the State of Chen, was offered the Duke of Yue as well as a lot of rewards, including Princess Lechang. But she still longed for her husband very much.
On the 15th of January, Xu Deyan went to the market and saw an old man take a half broken mirror for sale. Xu found out it was Princess Lechang who asked the old man, Yang" s servant, to do it.After Yang Su knowing their story, he was deeply moved and not only allowed Su to take Princess Lechang away,but also awarded them a lot of money.
Now we use it to describe the sight of reunion of a couple after an imposed separation.
此语出自唐・孟�《本事诗・情感》。南朝陈的太子舍人徐德言,娶皇帝陈叔宝的妹妹乐昌公主为妻,为南朝陈的驸马。他们二人情意相投,夫妻恩爱。可当时正值天下大乱,他们预感到荒乱之中夫妻可能被拆散,甚至流落他乡。于是徐德言对乐昌公主说:“只要我们夫妻缘分未尽,总有再团圆的机会。”当即把一面铜镜分割成两半,他们二人各保存一半,并嘱咐她:“如果离散,就在每年正月十五那天,托人拿这半面镜子去市场叫卖,只要我活着,就一定去,以另半面镜子为凭,和你团圆。”
不久,隋文帝杨坚发兵攻陈都城建康(今江苏南京)。陈国灭亡,灭陈有功大臣杨素被封为越国公,得到了很多赏赐,其中包括乐昌公主,但她仍一直想着丈夫。
正月十五到了,徐德言赶到市场,看见一位老人叫卖半面铜镜,原来是乐昌公主托杨府的仆人到市场卖镜找夫。杨素得知他们夫妻的实情后深受感动,叫徐德言把乐昌公主带走,还赐他们不少财物。
后以此典比喻夫妻离散后重新和好、团圆。
