A day in the mountains, a century on earth In later stories, phrases like "on watching the game to the end, he found his youthful hair had turned white," implying that an instant in fairyland is an age in the mortal world, were often used to express the passing of time there.
山中一日，世上百年所謂「看他終一局，白卻少年頭」，仙鄉剎那是人間的萬劫，常成為後來仙境敘述時間的方式。