"matchmaking corner", a gathering in a park for parents who seek marriage partners for their adult children by connecting with other parents who put up posters displaying their unmarried child's details
to regard the four corners of the world all as home (idiom) / to feel at home anywhere / to roam about unconstrained / to consider the entire country, or world, to be one's own
fig. a tree may grow a thousand zhang high, but its leaves return to their roots (proverb) / fig. everything has its ancestral home / in old age, an expatriate returns home
to change one's tune / to modify one's previous remark / to change the way one addresses sb (as when one marries and starts to call one's husband's parents 爸爸[ba4 ba5] and 媽媽|妈妈[ma1 ma5])
paternal great-aunt (father's father's sister) / (respectful form of address for a married woman used by members of her parents' family) married daughter / (brassy self-reference used by a woman in an altercation) I / me / this lady here / (coll.) form of address for an unmarried girl or woman, expressing affection or reproach
(bound form) to scrutinize / (bound form) to reflect (on one's conduct) / (bound form) to come to realize / (bound form) to pay a visit (to one's parents or elders)
(bound form) superfluous / (bound form) (of a man) to move into the household of one's in-laws after marrying / (of the bride's parents) to have the groom join one's household
Confucian moral injunctions of fidelity / piety to one's parents, respect to one's older brother, loyalty to one's monarch, faith to one's male friends
(of parents) to bring up children for the purpose of being looked after in old age
The four tones
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