The ten chants in the border area are the tamping chants.

In the 1940s, the Kuomintang diehards intensified the economic blockade of the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region. Chairman Mao put forward the call of "do it yourself, have enough food and clothing" and the policy of "developing the economy and ensuring supply". A vigorous military and civilian mass production movement was launched within the Shaanxi-Gansu-Ningxia Border Region.

Musician Zhang Hanhui came from Guanzhong to Chenghao Township, Huachi County, Qingyang City, Gansu Province to collect music. He was deeply affected by the lively labor scenes of local soldiers and civilians. He used the local folk song "Pushing Chow Mein" as the theme. Based on the theme, "Ten Sings of the Border Area" was created. Later, this song was used in the 1964 large-scale musical epic "The East is Red" and was renamed "Military and Civilian Mass Production".

The singing form of the song is lead singing and chorus singing. Labor chants are songs with call signs that are sung along with labor and are one of the main genres of folk songs in my country. The main form is that one person leads the singing and everyone responds. The characteristics of music and labor movements are closely related, and the lyrics are mostly improvised.

The full version of the lyrics is as follows:

The liberated areas are horrifying, the mass production is horrifying, the army and the people, Xi Li Li Li, la la la la, 嗦啰啰啰太 , mobilize together, the ordnance and engineering team, the mutual aid team, the singing of labor, Xi Li Li Li, clack la la la, luo luo luo luo ta, the mountains and rivers are all over the place, women. Yah, ho, cough, everyone is scrambling to be the first, ho, ho, cough, hand spinning the spinning wheel.

Squeak, squeak, squeaky, buzzing, spinning line, cough, can you cough, can you cough, people ask people, people ask people to ask people, people ask people to ask, people ask people asking, people ask people asking, people ask people to ask, people ask people asking, people ask people asking, people ask people to ask, people ask people to ask people, people ask people to ask people, people ask people to ask, and people ask people to ask people. What is my team (1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th), the Eighth Route Army, do it yourself, have enough food and clothing, step up production, sililili, wipe la la la, say, say, say, say, say, for the war of resistance. Yeah, cough.