白髮人送黑髮人

to see one's child die before oneself

white / snowy / pure / bright / empty / blank / plain / clear / to make clear / in vain / gratuitous / free of charge / reactionary / anti-communist / funeral / to stare coldly / to write wrong character / to state / to explain / vernacular / spoken lines in opera

white or gray hair / CL:根[gen1]

hair / Taiwan pr. [fa3]

person; people / CL:個|个[ge4],位[wei4]

to deliver / to carry / to give (as a present) / to present (with) / to see off / to send

abbr. for Heilongjiang province 黑龍江|黑龙江[Hei1 long2 jiang1]

black / dark / sinister / secret / shady / illegal / to hide (sth) away / to vilify / (loanword) to hack (computing)

black hair