Unyielding. The meaning of the Farewell My Concubine painting is that it represents perseverance, perseverance until death, and companionship in life and death. All the beauty of this is because they died before the bad things happened. Farewell My Concubine, a Chinese idiom, comes from "Historical Records of Xiang Yu", which means to describe the tragic scene of the hero's end. Nowadays, it is often used as a metaphor for acting arbitrarily, being separated from the masses, and eventually falling.