Xiao Baiyang is a song written by Liang Shangquan, composed by Shi Xin and sung by Yan Weiwen. The song was composed on 1984, and then included in Yan Weiwen's album "Song of Karamay" released on March 1990. "A small white poplar, long beside the pillar; Deep-rooted and strong, guarding the northern Xinjiang. The breeze rustled the leaves; The sun shines golden on the green leaves ... "Many people are familiar with the song" Little Poplar ",but the origin of this song may not be clear to many people. The creation of the song "Little White Poplar" is related to the martyr Sun Longzhen. 1990, the comrades of the creative group of the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department went to Xinjiang to collect folk songs. They were moved by Xiao Baiyang's deeds and wrote Song Xiaobaiyang, which was sung by Yan Weiwen at the Spring Festival Gala that year, inspiring the soldiers guarding the border. Tasti post has since been called "Little White Poplar" post.
The Xiaobaiyang post in the song is actually the Tasti post in Yumin County, Tacheng, Xinjiang, China. In the early 1980s, Chen, a Xibo warrior in Yili, the post, went home to visit relatives and told his mother the story of officers and men defending the country and defending the border. His mother encouraged him to behave well in the army and not to be homesick. He was also asked to take 10 poplar seedlings back to the post for planting, and told him to take root in the frontier like poplar and defend the frontier for the motherland.