In 1935, Ren Guang was the director of the music department at Shanghai's Baidai Records, with Nie Er as deputy director. In addition to composing anti-Japanese songs for the Left Wings Writers' Union's movie soundtracks, they also composed several national instrumental pieces. Nie Er composed "Dance of the Golden Snake". Ren Guang, on the other hand, took the music of Yueju opera as his source material, borrowed Western compositional techniques, adopted the rhythm of the elegant "tango" dance music, absorbed the tone of Jiangnan silk and bamboo and the characteristics of light music orchestration, and composed
In the early 1950s, this melodious piece was converted into a dance rhythm record for use in a cotillion, and in 1960, Peng Xiuwen re-orchestrated it according to the orchestra of the Central Broadcasting Orchestra of the People's Republic of China and adapted it into a large-scale folk music performance.