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1 lunar New Year's Eve

1 lit. flowers in a mirror and the moon reflected in the lake (idiom)

2 fig. an unrealistic rosy view

3 viewing things through rose-tinted spectacles

4 also written 水月鏡花|水月镜花

1 person with country accent

2 rustic

3 country bumpkin

1 Hezhou prefecture-level city in Guangxi

1 lit. to be born, to grow old, to get sick and to die

2 fig. the fate of humankind (i.e. mortality)

1 thinning scissors

1 subheading

2 subtitle

1 (photographic) film

1 granddaughter (son's daughter)

1 treetop

1 water pollution

1 moo (sound made by cow)

1 to atone for a crime

1 to grope about in the dark

1 weak

2 frail

1 parent (computing)

1 to retreat

2 to withdraw troops

3 to recall troops

4 fig. to finish work

5 to wind up

6 to call it a day

7 used with negatives: the task is far from over

1 war of 1915 against Yuan Shikai and for the Republic