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驾返瑶池
jià​fǎn​yáo​chí

rest in peace

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驾返瑶池 駕返瑤池 jià​fǎn​yáo​chí
rest in peace
Used in elegiac couplets or funeral banners to mourn the death of an elderly woman; literally means the carriage has returned to the Jade Pond, the mythical home of the Queen Mother of the West.

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  • 跨鹤西归 kuà​hè​xī​guī