Nanniwan lyrics are as follows:
The flowers of the flower basket are fragrant, listen to us sing a song.
Sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing, sing.
Nanniwan is a good place, a good place, a good place.
A good place to visit, a good place to visit, a good place to visit, a good place to visit.
There are crops everywhere, and there are cows and sheep everywhere.
The Nanniwan of the past years, everywhere is a barren mountain.
No one has ever seen the Nanniwan of today.
With the previous year is not general, not one ah general.
The Nanniwan, as it is today, is not the same as in previous years.
No longer is the old model, is a good Jiangnan in the north of Shaanxi Province.
The good south of Shaanxi, flowers bloom all over the mountain.
They are all over the mountain, learning from Nanniwan.
Everywhere is Jiangnan, Jiangyannan.
And fighting and producing, the 359th Brigade is a model.
We are going to the front, and flowers will be sent to the model.
We will go forward and send flowers to the model.
Background:
In 1943, the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region's civil and military production campaign reached a climax, and the 359th Brigade, as a "model of production", was even more famous in the Border Region. This year, Yan'an military and civilian carefully organized condolences, and bring cultural and artistic programs, to Nanniwan to comfort the 39th Brigade officers and men.
Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute Yangge team in charge of the preparation of cultural and artistic programs, it occurred to me that we should rehearse a program related to the 359th Brigade.
The choreographers, after a lot of hard thinking, finally came up with a rice-planting dance called "Pick Flower Baskets," in which eight actresses pick eight pairs of flower baskets and perform them on the stage accompanied by an interlude song whose lyrics are called Nanniwan in the last verse.
The poet He Jingzhi received the task of creating lyrics for the episode, combined with his own deep knowledge and experience of the military and civilian production movement in the border areas, especially the 359th Brigade's reclamation of Nanniwan, and wrote the lyrics in one go, which was composed by Marco using the tune of the Shaanbei folk song.
The rice-planting song and dance "picking flower basket" in Nanniwan condolence performance, extremely popular with the 359th Brigade all the officers and soldiers welcome. Wang Zhen happily walked onto the stage, shook hands with the actors and actresses of the program one by one, and took pictures with them. The song "Nanniwan" was born.