In 2003, doctors determined that Xu Guoping had the most severe form of signet ring cell gastric cancer. According to doctors' predictions, he can live up to 5 years. Xu Guoping was extremely disappointed when he heard about it. Later, he recovered mentally and vowed to seize the time to contribute to society and spread the flute art widely when he defeated the disease. At the age of 9, he studied with the famous flute player Lu Chunling. In 1957, he was admitted to the China Welfare Society Children's Art Theater, where he has been performing for nearly half a century. Although retired, he still pays attention to the development of national music in our country and the education of national music for young people. He said: "In the 1970s, I went to a school and bought two boxes of audio tapes for the children to listen to. One box was pop songs and the other was ethnic music. There were 48 students in a class, 40 of them liked pop songs, and only 6 I like national music, but there are two who don’t like any music. If this continues, I think our national music will be lost. On the contrary, many young people from Germany, Japan, and the United States come to the Shanghai Conservatory of Music to study our country’s national music. Musical instruments. If this continues, after a few years, the old artists will no longer be there. Then, if we want to learn national musical instruments, won’t we have to go abroad to learn them? Besides, I often ride my bicycle to schools to investigate, and I have deep feelings. This incident still makes me feel quite sad. Many children are now learning the Japanese Yamaha flute instead of our national flute. We are now a diversified culture, and children learn from Yamaha. I have nothing against the flute. However, as Chinese, we should first promote our flute, so I invented the multi-functional flute to participate in the 'international competition' and strive to make more children like our national instrument." It has seven functions: recorder, bamboo flute, bangdi, bawu, Xiao, cucurbit flute and flute, and is known as the "Magic Flute".
With this set of multifunctional flutes that won the national invention patent, Einstein’s New Invention, and the International Gold Medal at the New Technology Expo, Xu Guoping began a long march in music. He traveled alone for 20 years and traveled 200,000 miles, from the Dabie Mountains to the prairie, from the old revolutionary areas to the impoverished mountainous areas. He spent his own money to deliver flutes to children who had no music, and taught more than 20,000 music teachers. Let the sound of the flute spread across the land of China. For example, in Jinzhai, an old revolutionary base in Anhui, he trained more than a thousand flute players and more than a hundred normal students. Some people wonder why the famous performer is still so poor. It turns out that he used other people's time to write enlightenment textbooks on how to play the flute. The multi-functional flute he invented does not charge patent fees, so that more teenagers who want to play the flute can afford it. . Propagating national music is the stage in Xu Guoping's heart, and promoting the 9,000-year-old Chinese flute culture is his wealth.