A Broken Mirror Mended

A mirror broken in two is reunited. During the chaos of war, Xu Deyan of the Chen dynasty in the Southern Dynasties and his wife, Princess Lechang, each kept half of a mirror as a token for their reunion. They were eventually able to meet again because of this. This idiom, originating from "A Tale of Emotions" in Meng Qi's "Tales of Past Events" from the Tang Dynasty, is later used to describe couples who were separated or had a falling out, and then reconciled and came back together.