It comes from the production story that happened in Nanniwan, the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Anti-Japanese Democratic Base Area. According to the Shidian Encyclopedia website, during the Anti-Japanese War, due to the attack of the Japanese invading army and the encirclement and blockade of the Kuomintang, the economy and finance of the liberated areas were extremely difficult. To this end, the Party Central Committee called on the military and civilians in the liberated areas to be self-reliant, overcome difficulties, and launch a large-scale production movement. At that time, the 359th Brigade of the Eighth Route Army responded to the call and went to Nanniwan to reclaim wasteland, turning the barren mountains and barren hills of the past into a land full of crops, cattle and sheep in northern Shaanxi and Jiangnan. During the Spring Festival of 1943, the Yangko team from Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute specially arranged a Yangko dance with flower baskets and went to Nanniwan to pay homage to the reclamation heroes of the 359th Brigade, the pacesetters of the mass production movement. Nanniwan was a aria in this Yangko dance. After the founding of China, it was sung by Guo Lanying and became a popular song.