[2025 Yan'an ] Travel Guide for Historical Stage Play "Yan'an Nursery School" (Updated Apr)

Introduction to Yan'an Nursery "Yan'an Nursery" is a large-scale historical stage play created by Shaanxi Tourism Group. It is magnificent, touching, full of human love, and highlights humanistic feelings. Relying on a large amount of precious historical materials, it tells the story of a Red Army unit that was attacked by the enemy during the Chinese Revolutionary War through four acts: returning home, growing up, transferring, and crossing to the east. The story involves the orphans of the martyrs being Complimentary to the Yan'an Nursery, where they grew up and learned under the care of revolutionary soldiers and the mothers in the nursery. It focuses on showing the vivid scenes of the Yan'an Nursery during the historical period of the Chinese Revolutionary War and demonstrates the selfless love of the world. As a classic red drama that integrates history, nationality, innovation and artistry, "Yan'an Nursery Home" combines dance, folk songs, yangko, Ansai waist drum, Taoist opera, spinning and weaving, land reclamation and farming and other artistic forms with local characteristics, making the life scenes of the revolutionary era come alive and making the audience feel as if they were in the real revolutionary era. The Yan'an Nursery School also uses contemporary advanced stage concepts and equipment such as stage design, lighting, and sound effects to create an immersive dream scene. It uses an overall tilting, split 90° vertical lifting fully automatic stage, more than 600 vibrating seats, full-range surround sound, and high-tech 3D imaging technology to present the audience with the towering Pagoda Mountain, the surging Yan River, the fierce war, the romantic starry sky, and other multi-dimensional battlefield time and space of the Yan'an period. The audience has both a sense of historical presence and a sense of shock in reality. After more than two years of regular performances, "The Nursery" has been widely praised for its rich historical heritage, profound spiritual connotation, exquisite stage art and high-quality brand image. Synopsis Prologue In the early days of the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, a Red Army unit was attacked by the enemy and a brave soldier mother was killed. The only token she left for her child was a military cap with the child's name "Hongyuan" written in blood. The child was safely transferred to Yan'an under the care of the Red Army soldiers and then Complimentary to the Yan'an Nursery to live and study. Scene 1 Homecoming Life in the nursery was hard but happy, and the children who were taken in because of the war grew up happily here. Hongyuan, the boy who was rescued from his mother's arms, had grown up, but he was withdrawn and unwilling to talk. He wore the big Red Army cap left by his mother all day long, shutting himself up. Act II Growth The director and the nursery teachers are determined to help him completely open up his heart. The deep love of the nursery nourishes the hearts of every child, just like the stars in the night sky, supporting a sky of love for them. The father who thought he was going to the battlefield called the child he had never met in the nursery thousands of miles away. The recognition between father and son after a life-and-death separation was ruthlessly cut off by the war... Act III: Transfer The situation became increasingly serious. In order to protect the children's safety, the superiors instructed that all staff in the nursery must be relocated immediately. Faced with the harsh reality, the director of the nursery reluctantly left her daughter Hongxia behind, leaving more hope to other children. During the transfer, the children were protected by the endless family love from all directions, and witnessed and experienced life and death tests again and again. Act IV: Crossing the East The death of loved ones one by one was like the earth-shaking thunder that shook the hearts of the children. Hongyuan's heart knot was completely untied at this moment. Facing the surging river, he and his companions shouted out their long-hidden love for their mother. Life disappeared forever, but many unsung heroes like the Seniors shepherd, the director of the nursery and the nursery teachers who came forward one after another awakened the dawn of the new China with their selfless love. The red land has since shone with immortal glory, and the great Yan'an spirit has led countless later generations to move forward courageously.