Words about Marry and Love (9)

孟姜女, a woman name Meng-Jiang: when Qin Shi Huang was building the great wall of China, this her husband was forced to do it in free. Later he was dead by hard labour. This woman walked to bring her husband winter cloth, as she knew her husband was dead, she beginning to cry. She cried for three days suddenly 400 km of the great wall collapsed. Later people use this story expressing the love and loyalty for a wife to her husband.

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西窗剪烛, trim a candle at the west window. It means a husband on the road missing his wife he image how nice it would be if I site side by side with my wife trimming the candle.

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藕断丝连Even when the lotus root breaks, the fibres still hold together. It means after
break up they keep thinking about each other.

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