Dictionary Entry: 南泥湾

Nanniwan, township 45 km south of Yan'an 延安[yán ān], Shaanxi ꞏ "Nanniwan", a song written in 1943 to celebrate the achievements of communist revolutionaries in Nanniwan, where the 359th brigade of the Eighth Route Army reclaimed barren land as part of a campaign to become self-sufficient in food during a blockade by enemy forces