Joan Baez's "Where Have All the Flowers Gone" (the last paragraph of Pu Shu's "Those Flowers" is taken from here) is taken from the American anti-war song "Where have all the flowers gone" in the 1960s and 1970s.

.I have heard the brothers four's version in the past. It is said to be the earliest Ukrainian folk song. "WHERE HAVE ALL THE FLOWERS GONE".

This song was inspired by the Cossack lullaby in the novel "Quiet on the Don".

The novel begins with a Cossack village on the banks of the Don River. The time is the early twentieth century. Some young people in the village are about to set off to the White Army camp. They will soon be involved in the Russian Civil War.

One of the Cossacks' wives was singing a lullaby to lull her children to sleep: "Where are the geese? - They have gone into the reeds." "Where are the reeds? - The girls have cut them down." "Where are the girls?

Ah? - The girl is marrying a Cossack. "Where are the Cossacks? - Going to the battlefield..." In 1961, the famous American folk singer Peter Seeger rewrote this lyrics.

He opposed aggressive wars, and seeing the outbreak of World War II and the Korean War, he felt that every American youth was just like the Cossacks, destined to fight.

So he changed "reed" to "flower", just like the Cossack lullaby. The flowers were picked by the girls, the girls got married, and their husbands went to war.

These young men died in battle, and their graves were soon forgotten.

The next generation of girls came to pick flowers again, not realizing that underneath the flowers were graves. These girls got married again, and their husbands went to war.