Sunset on the Yellow River is selected from Love on the Loess Plateau, and the lyrics express the deep feelings of the people of China for the Yellow River and their firm belief in the destiny of the country. This song is still widely sung and has become a classic of China movies and music.
Li Ying, the author of Sunset on the Yellow River, is an outstanding military poet in the history of contemporary poetry in China. He not only writes poems on military themes, but also his poems have already gone beyond the scope of military poems.