From Yuan Zhen's Farewell to Sadness (III).
Yuan Zhen's wife, Wei Cong, is the youngest daughter of Wei Xiaqing, the prince of Shaobao. In 802 (the eighteenth year of Zhenyuan in Tang Dezong), she was twenty years old and Yuan Zhen was twenty-five years old, and she married Yuan Zhen. Life after marriage is relatively poor, but Wei Cong is very virtuous, has no complaints and has a good relationship with her husband and wife. Seven years later, when Yuan Zhen was appointed as the supervisor, Wei Cong died of illness at the age of 27. Yuan Zhen was very sad and wrote many mourning poems, the most famous of which were these three.
one
You are like Gong's favorite daughter, and it's not going well to marry me, a poor man.
You saw me naked in the box. You take off the gold brooch and buy me wine.
You eat your food with wild vegetables, but your food is sweet. You cook with dead branches with leaves.
Now that I am a high official, you are far away from the world and sent some monks and priests to be at the mercy of monks.
Secondly,
I used to joke that it was behind us, but now it is in front of us as you said.
The clothes you have worn have been given away, and I can't bear to open your sewing box.
Because I miss you, I love girls very much, and many of your dreams, I will burn paper for you.
No one knows that the husband and wife will be sad, and many past memories are extremely sad.
third
I'm sitting here alone, mourning for both of us. How many years is my seventy years old? .
No offspring is fate, and Pan Yue just mourned his dead wife in vain.
Even if you can bury it, you can't tell a passion. What an illusory hope the fetters of the afterlife are.
However, when I open my eyes, I can see the whole night, the lifelong troubles in your brow.