2. The song was originally called "Children of the Sun", and later Yan Su renamed it "Eighteen Bends of the Mountain Road". The lyrics of the song are derived from the poem "Songs and Roads of the Tujia" written by lyricist Tong Wensi in his hometown of Changyang.In the summer of 1990, Tong Wensi went to the west of Hubei to collect winds, and he appreciated the local folk performances of the Tujia such as the Pendulum Dance, the Bashan Dance, and the Song of Crying for Marriage, etc. At that time, the car was crawling on the mountain road, and he was very happy with the performance of the Tujia. At that time, when the car was crawling on the mountain road, he was attracted by the scenery of the Qingjiang River and the distant mountains surrounded by clouds, so he composed the poem "Songs and Roads of the Tujia". The lyrics of the song were then polished for three years on the basis of that poem.