Osmanthus Flowers Blooming Everywhere in August (八月桂花遍地开 bāyuè guìhuā biàndì kāi) is a Chinese Red Army

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province, and is among the best-known revolutionary songs from the wartime and

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. The origin of the song is based on the tune ''Eight Pieces of Brocade'' (八段锦 bā duàn jĭn) from the

Dabie Mountains The Dabie Mountains () are a major mountain range located in central China. Running northwest-to-southeast, they form the main watershed between the Huai and Yangtze rivers. The range also marks the boundary between Hubei Province and its neighbo ...

. The revolutionary version of the song was popular at very high levels during the 1960s; Deputy secretary of defence General

Tan Zheng Tan Zheng (; June 14, 1906 – November 6, 1988) was a Chinese general, Communist revolutionary leader and strategist. He was a major leader of the Red Army and the People's Liberation Army. Childhood Tan Zheng was born in a little village cal ...

's wife, captain Wang Changde, used to sing the song on his visits to the troops in the early 1960s, prior to his imprisonment during the Cultural Revolution. It was featured in the 1964 musical '' The East is Red'', and is now regarded as one of the most popular “new” folk songs.Marvelene C. Moore, Philip Ewell Kaleidoscope of Cultures: A Celebration of Multicultural Research Page 65 - 2010 "Performance by the University of Kentucky Chinese Ensemble 1. “Cinnamon Flowers in the Eighth Moon” (“Ba Yue Gui Hua”), a folk song. The Chinese count the months in a year by the “moon.” The “eighth moon” means August, the height of ..." "It is now regarded as one of the most popular “new” folk songs "

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