"Picking Pomegranates" is a local folk song popular in Wuhe County, Anhui Province, and is a representative work of Wuhe folk songs. In the early 1950s, Huo Jintang, an old man in Xiaoxi Village, Xiaoxi Town, Wuhe County, changed a local folk tune that had been sung for more than a hundred years into a three-person play "Pomegranate Picking", starring folk artists An Huazhi (playing the role of sister-in-law) and Zhang Xiangqian. (played as Xiaosheng) and Wang Wanxia (played as sister-in-law) performed wonderfully and became a cultural landscape in Wuhe County.
The creation background of this song is not very clear, but it is said that in the early 1950s, in response to national policies and to get rid of the remaining feudal ideas in the countryside, an old artist from Xiaoxi Town, Wuhe County The old man Huo Jintang adapted a local folk tune into a three-person drama "Pomegranate Picking" about resisting arranged marriages in rural areas and pursuing free love.