"Wedding Farewell" is one of the new Yuefu poems "Three Officials and Three Farewells" created by the Tang Dynasty poet Du Fu. The poem positively describes the sadness and profound feelings of righteousness when the bride and groom part ways, shaping the It creates an image of a young woman who understands justice and exposes the deep suffering caused by the war to the people.
They got married on the first day and the groom went to serve in the military the next day. This completely went against the common sense and custom at that time that newlyweds did not serve in the military. The bride was heartbroken with grief at the thought of her husband going to the battlefield where he would almost die. But she also realized that her husband's life and death, the survival of love, and the fate of the country and the nation were inseparably linked. To realize the ideal of happy love, sacrifices must be made. Therefore, she endured her grief and encouraged her husband to join the army, and tearfully encouraged her groom to go to the front line, while firmly expressing her vow of undying love.
This poem imitates the tone of a bride's self-reported grievances, expresses the character's psychology from being reserved and shy, reluctant to speak, to frank and straightforward. It also writes about the attitude and complex psychology of the people facing the war at that time. As well as their nostalgia for normal life and family relationships, and their courage to take responsibility for the country, they wrote about the people's attitude and complex psychology facing the war at that time, and profoundly revealed the huge misfortune that the war brought to the people.