Twenty-nine years ago today, on March 14, 1996 (January 25, 1996 in the lunar calendar), Wang Luobin, the "King of Western Songs" passed away. Wang Luobin (1913-1996), a famous disseminator of western folk songs, was known as the king of modern Chinese songs. Wang Luobin was born in Beijing in January 1913. In 1937, Wang Luobin joined the Northwest Field Service Group led by the famous writer Ding Ling, and went in and out of the hail of bullets with the group. He composed songs such as "Laundry Song", "Fellow on the Battlefield", and "Songs of Fenglingdu". Wang Luobin collected, sorted and recorded many beautiful and beautiful folk songs of various ethnic groups with academic value, such as Uyghur "Lift Your Hijab", "Kashgar Dance Music", "Youth Dance Music", "Alma Khan", "Half Moon Climbs Up", "Elala", Kazakh folk songs "Wandering Song", "I will wait for you until tomorrow", "People who miss you lie in the flock", "Mayila", "Cooking Smoke in the Dusk", "Dutar and Maria", "Twilight Vast" and so on. These songs with smooth melodies and fresh tunes still have high aesthetic value to this day. On March 14, 1996, he passed away in Urumqi at the age of 83.