The original singer is Wei Xianzhong. "Raising the Whip to Urge the Horses to Carry Grain" is a piece based on the folk music style of Northeast China. It is a flute solo composed by Wei Xianzhong in October 1969. "Raising the Whip to Urge the Horses to Carry Grain" is one of the representative pieces of new-school flute music. . The music is warm and lively, and uses vivid and simple musical language to describe the scene of farmers driving carts full of grain after a good harvest and happily selling public grain to the country. Horse hooves beat, wheels sing, happy farmers whip their horses, spreading the joy of harvest on the grain transport path. The song was composed by the author Wei Xianzhong in October 1969 while experiencing rural life and participating in autumn harvest labor in Panjin, Liaoning.