Cultural relics story I will tell (twenty-four): oil poet - Li Ji

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The Soviet Union has Baku, China has Yumen; wherever there is oil, there are Yumen people" is the famous poet Li Ji's enthusiastic praise for Yumen.

Li Ji (1922-1980) was born in Tanghe County, Henan Province, to a middle-class peasant family. Formerly known as Li Zhenpeng, pen name Li Ji and Yu Yifan, is a famous modern poet in China.

In the winter of 1952, Li Ji went to the Yumen Oil Mine as the propaganda director of the party committee and established a living base on the petroleum industry front. Here, he shared the hardships and labors with the broad masses of workers, and won the title of "oil poet". He composed the long narrative poem "Song of Life", the short poem collection "Yumen Poetry Copy", "Yumen Poetry Copy II", and "Tribute to Oil Workers". In these collections of poems, the poet explored new topics in the form of poetry to reflect socialist industrial construction and the spiritual outlook of oil workers, and achieved results.

Through the depiction of young worker Zhao Ming's selfless labor, humbly learning from old workers, and inventing new oil production methods, "Song of Life" shows the new face of the oil industry front and praises the creative labor of the working class.

In 1963, he published the narrative poems "Xiang Kunlun", "Sword Song", and "Petroleum Poems" (1 and 2). Later, he published two long narrative poems with the same theme with a strong atmosphere of oil workers' life, "Big Brother Oil" and "Red Scroll". On March 8, 1980, the poet passed away.