Mountains pile up, waters fold back — you think the path is lost; then shady willows and bright flowers reveal another village.
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history
The phrase is famous from Wang Wei and Wu Yuanheng (Tang), but its idiomatic force today comes from Lu You's Song couplet 山重水复疑无路，柳暗花明又一村 — the canonical image of hope arriving where the road seemed to end.
grammar
Apostrophe needed: liǔ'àn — marks the syllable boundary before the vowel-initial 暗 (àn).
