The background and historical story of the song A Farewell: A Farewell Tune are taken from John Pond Ordway's American song Dreaming of Home and Mother. Dreaming of home and mother is an "artist's song", which was popular in America in the late19th century. It is led by a white actor who painted his face, playing a black man, and the music is written in the style of black songs.

When Li Shutong was studying in Japan, the Japanese lyricist Tong Qiuxi wrote a lyric called "Sorrow of Travel" with the melody of dreaming of home and mother. Li Shutong's Farewell is based on Ningen's Sorrow of Travel.

Social influence of songs

From the 1920s to the 1940s, Farewell was a school music song taught in a new school, which was widely sung and loved by the public.

1970s and1980s, Farewell appeared as an episode or theme song in the films Early February and Old Events in the South of the City, respectively, which was even more popular and was sung endlessly.

1997 Chinese rock band Tang Dynasty arranged and sang Farewell in its second album Romance.

In the 1990 TV series "The King of Thousand Kings Returns from the Jianghu", "Farewell" was also used as an episode.

The title of 20 10 movie "Let the bullets fly" uses the song "Farewell" to illustrate that the story told by this movie took place in the early years of the Republic of China.

The 20 13 film series "Cooks and Rogues" is the singer Pu Shu's version of "Farewell", and the Pu Shu version adopts the full version of the lyrics.