What do you mean by mourning poems? What is a mourning poem?

1. Mourning poems are one of the themes of ancient Chinese poems, which are generally works of husbands mourning for their dead wives, beginning with three mourning poems written by Pan Yue in the Western Jin Dynasty.

2. Now, in a broad sense, it also refers to poems expressing mourning and mourning for deceased relatives or friends, which are in the same strain as western mourning poems.

3. Mourning poems in the west have also been translated into elegies and lamentations, which are poems mourning the death of individuals, groups and even the whole mankind.