huáng​liáng​mèng

pipe dream

黄粱梦 黃粱夢 huáng​liáng​mèng
pipe dream
A beautiful but brief and unattainable dream of wealth and status; derived from a story of a traveler who dreamed of an entire life of glory in the time it took for a pot of millet to cook.
The Yellow Millet Dream
Title of a famous Yuan Dynasty play by 马致远 mǎ​zhì​yuǎn, based on the Tang Dynasty story from the "Record Within a Pillow."

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