《长征组歌》的创作者肖华将军14岁参加红军。战争年代，他先后担任红军总政治部青年部长、少共国际师政委，并经历了艰难困苦的万里长征。1964年2月，肖华患了肝炎，中央安排他到杭州养病。为纪念红军长征30周年，肖华打算利用养病的时间用诗歌的形式，对长征来一次集中的概括 General Xiao Hua, the creator of “Long March Song”, joined the Red Army at the age of 14. In the war years, he served successively as the youth minister of the general political department of the Red Army, a small number of international division of political commissar and political commissar, and experienced the hardships and long march. In February 1964, Xiao Hua suffered from hepatitis and the central government arranged him to recuperate in Hangzhou. In commemoration of the 30th anniversary of the Red Army’s Long March, Xiao Hua intends to use his time in recuperation as a poetic form to give a general summary of the Long March