Today, the Great Wall Ballad is one of the most popular Chinese patriotic songs in both Taiwan and Mainland China, largely due to its apolitical lyrics and folk-style melody.
After fleeing to Northern China, one of the lead producers of the film, Lu Xuebiao, published the script and music of Kanshan Wanli in Warsong Magazine, a popular Chinese resistance publication.
As the war progressed, the song became increasingly well known, and was performed internationally by Zhou Xiaoyian, an acclaimed Chinese choral singer, alongside the remainder of the soundtrack to Kanshan Wanli.
In 1957, Liu Xue'an was denounced by the Chinese Communist Party as a rightist,[citation needed] and his works, including the Great Wall Ballad, were banned for 22 years.
Since the great catastrophe began, The rape and looting was too bitter to endure Hardship drove us to foreign lands Fragmented, our kinfolk and parents died.