Broken Mirror Rejoined Chinese Calligraphy Wall Scroll
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Start your project by clicking on the "Select and Customize" button below after you read the story...
Used in modern times for divorced couples that come back together
pò jìng chóng yuán
A husband and wife separated and reunited.
About 1500 years ago in China, there lived a beautiful princess named Le Chang. She and her husband Xu De Yan loved each other very much. But when the army of the Sui Dynasty was about to attack their kingdom, disposed of all of their worldly possessions and prepared to flee into exile.
They knew that in the chaos, they might lose track of each other, so the one possession they kept was a bronze mirror which is a symbol of unity for a husband and wife. They broke the mirror into two pieces, and each of them kept half of the mirror. They decided that if separated, they would try to meet in the fair during the 15th day of the first lunar month (which is the lantern festival). Unfortunately, the occupation was brutal, and the princess was forced to become the mistress of the new commissioner of the territory, Yang Su.
At the Lantern Festival the next year, the husband came to the fair to search for his wife. He carried with him, his half of the mirror. As he walked through the fair, he saw the other half of the mirror for sale at a junk market by a servant of the commissioner. The husband recognized his wife's half of the mirror immediately, and tears rolled down his face as he was told by the servant about the bitter and loveless life that the princess had endured.
As his tears dripped onto the mirror, the husband scratched a poem into his wife's half of the mirror:
You left me with the severed mirror, The mirror has returned but absent are you, As I gaze in the mirror I seek your face, I see the moon, but as for you, I see not a trace.
The servant brought the inscribed half of the mirror back to the princess. For many days, the princess could not stop crying when she found that her husband was alive and still loved her.
Commissioner Yang Su, becoming aware of this saga realized that he could never obtain the love of the princess. He sent for the husband and allowed them to reunite.
This phrase in Chinese is now used to describe a couple who has been torn apart for some reason (usually divorce), but have come back together (or remarried). It seems to be more common these days in America for divorced couples to reconcile and get married to each other again. This would be a great gift if you know someone who is about to remarry their ex.
All of our calligraphy is completely done by hand in the ancient way.
When the calligrapher finishes creating your artwork, it is taken to our art mounting workshop in Beijing where a wall scroll is made by hand from a combination of silk, rice paper, and wood.
After we create your wall scroll, it takes at least two weeks for air mail delivery from Beijing to you.
Therefore, allow a few weeks for delivery from the time you place your order. Rush options are available!
When you select your calligraphy, you'll be taken to another page where you can choose various custom options.
The scroll that I am holding in this picture is a "medium size" 4-character wall scroll. As you can see, it is a great size to hang on your wall. (We also offer custom wall scrolls in larger sizes)
Professional calligraphers are getting to be hard to find these days. Instead of drawing characters by hand, the new generation in China merely type roman letters into their computer keyboards and pick the character that they want from a list that pops up.
There is some fear that true Chinese calligraphy may become a lost art in the coming years. Many art institutes in China are now promoting calligraphy programs in hopes of keeping this unique form
of art alive.
Even with the teachings of a top-ranked calligrapher in China, my calligraphy will never be good enough to sell. I will leave that to the experts.
The same calligrapher who gave me those lessons also
attracted a crowd of thousands and a TV crew as he created characters over
6-feet high. He happens to be ranked as one of the top 100 calligraphers
in all of China. He is also one of very few that would actually attempt
such a feat.
The following table is only helpful for those studying Chinese (or Japanese), and perhaps helps search engines to find this page when someone enters Romanized Chinese or Japanese
Title
Characters
Simplified Traditional
Various forms of Romanized Chinese
Broken Mirror Rejoined
破镜重圆 破鏡重圓
pò jìng chóng yuán po jing chong yuan p`o ching ch`ung yüan
po4 jing4 chong2 yuan2 pojingchongyuan pochingchungyüan po ching chung yüan
If you have not set up your computer to display Chinese, the characters in this table probably look like empty boxes or random text garbage.
This is why I spent hundreds of hours making images so that you could view the characters in the "Broken Mirror Rejoined" listings above.
If you want your Windows computer to be able to display Chinese characters you can either head to your Regional and Language options in your Win XP control panel, select the [Languages] tab and click on [Install files for East Asian Languages]. This task will ask for your Win XP CD to complete in most cases. If you don't have your Windows XP CD, or are running Windows 98, you can also download/run the simplified Chinese font package installer from Microsoft which works independently with Win 98, ME, 2000, and XP. It's a 2.5MB download, so if you are on dial up, start the download and go make a sandwich.
ZhongHuaRui Chinese antique furnitureThrone-type mirror platform. ... Chinese antique furnitureFull-length mirror, a type derived from a screen set ...
The Mirror of Literature, Issue 270. ... on a considerable traffic in pictures with the Chinese and other eastern nations. ... voice murmured out happiness in low and broken tones of voluptuous delight. ...
The Mirror of Literature, Issue 483. ... Project Gutenberg EBook of The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, ... had died long since, of a broken heart?that fate, too, was afterwards her ...
Regional Folklore and Mythology ... about folklore and mythology topics broken down by cultural and geographical region. ... Chinese ... Isis rejoined the pieces and brought Osiris back to life. ...
Auction Catalog Condition: Interior mirror broken, one pull loose, minor scratches. 40 ... 16"H. Condition: top broken off figure rejoined, holes from electrical wiring. ...
Sample Chapter from Counting Mantou Each number began with a Chinese character and an English letter. ... hard to prove such exercises had broken any of the recently implemented rules ...
Circuit 10.3 - THE COMMUNICATIONS NETWORK Chinese philosophy ... on earth is a tiny reflective mirror of the whole story. ... of The Covenant" which portrays the rainbow effect of broken light. ...
Side Show Campfire Stunt (Skit) The Chinese Giant is built up by one lad riding on the ... These are previously broken and rejoined with thread. ( For detailed act see separate article. ...
Superspace The broken lines drawn on the sheet represent the paths of explorers who, like ... example the sheet is curved over and rejoined with itself in the form of a ...
The Lost Library of Florestica Please," she whispered in Chinese, "Ranma has done nothing to be blamed for, Shan Pu. ... man smiled at the news and then tucked the mirror in his sleeve. ...
uwp.edu/~longeway/III-01 - Classical Schools.htm ... beginning of the tradition of Chinese philosophical thought, around 500-550 bce, ... the qi, the life-breath which rejoined the qi of the whole universe at ...
The Golden Bowl, by Henry James ... and differences might of course not have broken out at all, but from the moment ... wonderful tune, the very record and mirror of the general adventure of one's ...
Ch'ing China: The Dream of the Red Chamber In another famous Chinese novel, already described, a similar ... time which intervened, the news was broken to Tai-y in an exceptionally cruel manner. ...
Neil Young ... "Expecting to Fly" and the adventurous "Broken Arrow" are solo recordings in all but name. ... Young rejoined in time to help record a final, disappointing, ...
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura ... been derided as ignorance, Chinese sobriety as stupidity, Japanese patriotism ... of the time was urging one to mirror the Universal in the Particular. ...
The Book of Tea by Kakuzo Okakura No student of Japanese culture could ever ignore its presence. ... The pantheistic symbolism of the time was urging one to mirror the Universal in the Particular. ...
the ringworld - faq - original Japanese series Why does the mirror change positions when Shizuko is brushing her hair? ... as if some of Sadako's presence had broken off and lodged itself in her brain. ...
CD Gallery - Seventhsign ... band has broken up. ... who left Ultimatum to join Seventhsign, rejoined Ultimatum. ... a deal with a large Japanese company for their next disc, but ...
Auction Catalog Condition: Interior mirror broken, one pull loose, minor scratches. 40 ... 16"H. Condition: top broken off figure rejoined, holes from electrical wiring. ...
Regional Folklore and Mythology ... about folklore and mythology topics broken down by cultural and geographical region. ... Isis rejoined the pieces and brought Osiris back to life. ... Japanese ...
Superspace The broken lines drawn on the sheet represent the paths of explorers who, like ... example the sheet is curved over and rejoined with itself in the form of a ...
News from Sri Lanka : 18 - 19, Nov 2002 ... useful to Samanera should be appreciated (full report in Daily Mirror) ... The talks, in which Japanese and Norwegian officials also took part, come a week ...
11th marines ... 1/11, as part of 7th Marines (Reinforced), rejoined the 1st Division from Samoa. ... Japanese resistance in that area was broken. ...
