"I Love Wuzhishan, I Love Wanquan River" is a song first sung by You Guoping.

Zheng Nan wrote the lyrics and Liu Changan composed the music.

Song lyrics:

I love Wuzhishan, I love Wanquan River

Take over the Red Army’s steel gun with both hands and defend the motherland on Hainan Island

Ah Wuzhishan, ah Wanquan River

How many stories of the Red Army have you told, and you sang the praises of the Red Army day and night

I love the red cotton tree in Wuzhishan, where the Red Army once stood Light a bonfire

I love the red stone rock in Wuzhishan

The Red Army once sharpened its knives on the stone. I love the road the Red Army walked

I follow it Post on the mountain road, I love the clear spring water of Wanquan River

The Red Army used the river water to cook wild fruits, I love the thousands of waves of Wanquan River

Extended information

The song was composed in the early 1970s, and the songwriters were Zheng Nan and Liu Changan. When writing this song, neither of them had been to Hainan. Zheng Nan wrote the lyrics based on his inspiration after reading a lot of information and understanding the revolutionary history that took place on Hainan Island. , he is experiencing life in Haifeng County, Guangdong with Liu Changan, the composer of this song.

After Liu Changan got the lyrics, he spent a short time in a guest house in Haifeng County to complete the composition of the music in one go. After that, he made appropriate modifications and improvements. After the song was completed, the first thing he sang was You Guoping, a singer from the Guangzhou Song and Dance Troupe. Later, this song was recommended for inclusion in "New Songs from the Battlefield", which attracted the attention of the Ministry of Culture of China at that time and specially arranged for Li Shuangjiang to sing.