The song in praise of the anti-Japanese period of the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region military and civilian mass production movement is "Nanniwan".
In 1943, the Shanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region's civilian and military mass production movement reached a climax, and the 359th Brigade, as a model of production, was even more famous in the border region. This year, the Yan'an army and people carefully organized condolences, and bring cultural and artistic programs, to Nanniwan to go to the 39th brigade to comfort all the officers and soldiers. Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute Yangge team in charge of the preparation of cultural 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, which was performed on stage by eight actresses picking eight pairs of flower baskets, accompanied by an interlude whose lyrics were called Nanniwan in the last verse. The poet He Jingzhi received the task of creating the lyrics for the episode, combined with his own deep understanding and experience of the military and civilian production movement in the border areas, especially the 359th Brigade reclamation of Nanniwan, fully conceived, written in one fell swoop the lyrics, and composed the music for it, using the tune of the Shaanbei folk song by Ma Ke.
"Nanniwan" song lyrics
Flower basket of flowers, listen to me to sing a song, sing a song, came to the Nanniwan, Nanniwan good place, good place, good place to a good place to a good scenery, a good place to a good scenery, everywhere is the crops, everywhere is the sheep and cows, in the past years of the Nanniwan, everywhere is a barren mountain, no ah people, today's Nanniwan!
Shaanxi's good south of the river, flowers bloom all over the mountain, open ah full of mountains, learn that Nanniwan, everywhere is the south of the river, ah, and learn to produce, 359 brigade is a model, we go forward, flowers to send model, we go forward, flowers to send model.