Abstract: August Roses Blooming Everywhere is a revolutionary song growing out of E-Yu-Wan (Hubei-Henan-Anhui) revolutionary bases during the 1920s and 1930s. it was originally composed in the melody of the local folk song Baduanjin in order to celebrate the founding of the Soviet Union. This revolutionary historical song was carried along the red army's path from north to south of China. Since the new period, August Roses Blooming Everywhere has been adapted into a variety of genres such as movies, novels, song and dance drama, and folk opera, thus getting more deeply and widely inheritance and innovation. The functions of political ideology, historical and cultural features and aesthetic value are further highlighted. The canonization of the song is the result of internal factors such as its artistic interest and aesthetic value, and external factors such as ideological discourse and cultural operation mode.