Journey to the East Gate is a folk song of Yuefu in the Han Dynasty, which describes a story of a lower class citizen who was forced by extreme poverty and took up the road of resistance in the desperate situation of lack of food and clothing. It is the most intense and combative work among Yuefu folk songs in Han Dynasty. Syntactically, this poem changes freely, depending on the content, especially the couple's dialogue, which is different in length and uneven, the wife's grief and the husband's anger, vividly drawing the voice and image of their conversation.