From the Grassland to Tiananmen Square Hymn's original song is the Inner Mongolian horqin folk song "New Moon Horse", which Hu Songhua slightly modified and completed the song in the 1960s.
The song "Hymn" is one of the works of the large-scale dance epic "The East is Red", and is also one of Hu Songhua's masterpieces. Hu Songhua has been singing it for forty years. The song sings the great motherland with full feelings. The tune has the warm and high temperament of an ode, and at the same time, it has the typical characteristics of Mongolian long tune, especially in the first part of the song. The song is very strong ethnicity, the lyrics theme is orthodox.