In mid-March, 1964, Comrade Li Jiefu, president of Shenyang Conservatory of Music, suddenly received a notice from China Music Association, asking him to report to Sarthou, Heilongjiang Province on March 2th. And informed the contact person and telephone number to Sarthou.
Comrade Jiefu was a famous composer in China at that time. During the Anti-Japanese War, he wrote songs such as "Two Little Cowboys" and "Singing by Wang He" and opera music "A Spark" written during the War of Liberation (among which "Revolutionaries are always young" is a household name), especially the newly created "We Walk on the Road" in 1963, which is quite influential in China.
after receiving the notice, the leaders in the hospital attached great importance to this matter, and Comrade Hijacking immediately made preparations for leaving. However, the long and arduous revolutionary conditions and overwork made him suffer from heart disease, hypertension and diabetes just in his early fifties. I have been dealing with various drugs for many years. In order to take care of him, the college party Committee is going to find a young man to accompany him "northward". At the suggestion of the robber, the Party Committee decided to let Qin Yongcheng accompany him.
At that time, Qin Yongcheng was suffering from a high fever and had been in bed for three days. Comrade Jiefu personally came home to visit Qin Yongcheng, and told him to rest at ease for illness, and if he could recover in two days, he would go to Sarthou to live with him.
Qin Yongcheng is very happy to be on a business trip to go deep into life, but he doesn't know where Sarthou is. There are still three days to go, and he really doesn't want to miss this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I really hope that his illness will get better soon. Unexpectedly, the next day, his fever really went down, but his body was still very weak, but it was not a problem to get up and walk.
On the evening of 19th, Qin Yongcheng and her husband boarded the train to Harbin. On the train, he finally raised his own question: "Where did we go to Sarthou?" The robber quietly told him: "Sarthou is a big oil field, called Daqing Oilfield, and it is still confidential!" All night long, Qin Yongcheng wondered what this mysterious place was like.
from the second day of their arrival in Daqing, they have a big class every morning to talk about oil. From exploration and drilling to oil production and refining, one content a day. For ten days, these musicians, who know nothing about the oil industry, finally have a preliminary understanding of oil and can tell laymen a thing or two. Ten days later, the Party Committee of anniversary arranged for them to experience life at the grassroots level, and the robbers, Wang Xin and Qin Yongcheng were arranged in the 125 drilling team, that is, the drilling team with "Wang Tieren" (Wang Jinxi) as the captain. Drilling Team 125 is a heroic drilling team in Daqing Oilfield. In order to develop Daqing Oilfield, the first well was drilled under extremely difficult circumstances.
They stayed in the 125 "Iron Man" drilling team for three days and returned to the guest house full of respect for the oil workers. Qin Yongcheng recalled the scenes he saw in the well site for a long time: poor equipment, bad weather conditions, hard work, high spirits and soaring enthusiasm. All the impossibilities became possible here. They left their hometown just to create a legend for New China and an oil-producing country of their own.
The next day, the Propaganda Department of Daqing Party Committee brought a stack of lyrics, hoping that composers who had experienced life could compose music for oil workers. When the old composer finished choosing the lyrics, Qin Yongcheng also went through them. I rummaged through the lyrics of "I Dedicate Oil to the Motherland" written by Xue Zhuguo. The more he read it, the more he liked it. In his mind, there was a scene of the "Iron Man" drilling team going north from Yumen. This is the interpretation of these lovely oil workers. They left their wives and children and moved to the north and south just to donate oil to the motherland. The song should be the fast pace of the train running forward, and the melody should be the heroic and powerful emotion of the oil workers. Qin Yongcheng more think more excited, a number of notes have been beating in my mind, there is a feeling of be vividly portrayed, hurriedly find a place to write it, this afternoon, in the dining hall of the hostel, it took 2 minutes to finish the song.