Lin Ku-fang explains that this song is actually "using the peaceful sands and slowly falling geese to convey the tender sentiments and regrets of those literati who realize that they can't 'mend Heaven' and 'save the world' and so withdraw from the affairs of man."
該曲其實是「以平靜之沙、漸落之雁為依托，吐露文人雅士『補天』不成，『濟世』未遂，離群索居的無盡感懷、纏綿心緒。」民族音樂學者林谷芳註解指出。