This song is significant not only because of its cautionary tale, from the point of view of a young woman, of passion, elopement, and the resulting regret at being cursed by family and community, but also because it references specific places in Hubei Province, thus providing a link to the song's origins in the middle Yangtze region of "Hu-Guang" from which local ethnic Han families migrated to Sichuan in the early seventeenth century.