Abstract:The red ballad, a distinct carrier of culture, expresses and spreads revolutionary thought with its special power of sound and rhythm. From the Agrarian Revolution through the War of Resistance Against Japan to the Liberation War, the Communist Party of China spread the Party’s political views and ideology to all social strata through its innovative discourse system and revolutionary ballads. In this sense, red ballads played an important role in the revolutionary struggle and made a significant contribution to the victory of the revolution. Centering on the red ballads of the Taihang Mountains, this paper has systematically examined the practice and evolution of the revolutionary discourse of the Communist Party of China in the Shanxi-Hebei-Shandong-Henan Revolutionary Base Areas, tracing the development from the War of Resistance Against Japan through the Liberation War to the early years of the People’s Republic of China. Then this paper summarizes the evolutionary characteristics of these ballads in terms of their disseminators, content, channels, effects, and discourse construction. It is found that the Red ballads of the Taihang Mountains have recorded and preserved important revolutionary materials in this region. They also contains the Party’s revolutionary struggle history in the Taihang Revolutionary Base Areas. Besides, these red ballads have exemplified the Party’s expression and construction of the revolutionary discourse. Therefore, the red ballads of the Taihang Mountains hold important academic value and practical significance for bolstering the political and cultural identification, enhancing the communication level and influence of red culture, advancing the ideological discourse system in the new era, and constructing China’s discourse and narrative system.