Pang Long was born into a miner's family in Taiping District, Fuxin City, Liaoning Province. The family struggled on the salary of their father alone. Pang Long has three sisters. He is the only son of his parents. When he was in junior high school, Hong Kong and Taiwan songs became popular in mainland China. Every night, the streets and alleys are crowded with fashionable young people playing and singing with guitars, surrounded by a circle of "enthusiasts", and Pang Long has become one of them. Gradually, he fell in love with music and had a dream that many people thought was unrealistic at that time: I want to change my destiny by singing! At that time, Pang Long's greatest wish was to have a guitar. His father finally bought him a guitar, which became the most precious gift in his life.

1985, on the eve of Pang Long's junior high school graduation, Pang Long gave up his college dream and applied for a vocational high school in order to alleviate the economic pressure at home. But his obsession with music has not diminished, and he plays the guitar and sings whenever he has time. Because of Pang Long's "song addiction", his father was afraid of affecting his studies, so he said to him, "You have to find a job after graduating from vocational high school. You can't sing like this every day, you have to concentrate on your studies! " But Pang Long went his own way. Father grabbed his guitar in a rage and threw it from the sixth floor. Pang Long rushed to the balcony and looked at the broken guitar on the ground. Tears welled up in his eyes.

Later, Pang Longcai learned that his father had been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer. His father asked him this way because he was afraid that his son would not find a way out after his death! Three months later, my father passed away forever. Pang Long felt guilty and cried again and again before his father's spirit. He silently promised to his father's portrait: "Dad, I will sing successfully and comfort your deceased!"

Shortly after his father died, Pang Long's elder sister and second sister got married, leaving only Pang Long, third sister and mother at home. At that time, Third Sister had just joined the work, and her salary was only 30 yuan a month. In order to survive and practice singing, Pang Long decided to have classes during the day and sing in the dance halls at night. But singers can't sing the songs they want to sing, and it depends on the audience to order songs; If the audience is unhappy, they will always knock the singer off the stage. Pang Long sang in the ballroom for three months and didn't get a penny. Later, I saw that Pang Long was very modest and would imitate the songs of big-name stars such as Jacky Cheung and Jiang Yuheng, and more and more people were looking for him to sing. The owner of the ballroom gives him 5 yuan a day and gives him a meal to eat. In this way, Pang Long's monthly income exceeds 100 yuan. After that, Pang Long went to a high-grade nightclub to sing, earning 30 yuan one night and nearly 1000 yuan a month, which helped his family improve some economic conditions.

1988, after graduating from Pang Long Vocational High School, he was recommended by the school to be a skilled worker at a construction site, responsible for running around the construction site to do surveying and setting out. This work seems simple, but it is related to the progress of the whole project. So when he arrived at the construction site, Pang Long's nerves were tense for fear of making mistakes. At that time, it was midsummer, and Pang Long stood in the sun every day, doing his work silently, and measuring and setting out while looking at the drawings. Working continuously for a long time makes my head dizzy and my eyes sore. What bothers him even more is that because sweat keeps flowing down his forehead, when he reaches out to wipe the sweat on his face, he often touches the ink on the chalk line on his face, so he is laughed at by his workmates many times. Running around the construction site all day, I was exhausted as soon as I got off work, and I no longer had the energy to sing in the ballroom. But before going to bed every night, he still has to play the guitar and sing a few songs to "recharge" himself.

A year later, Pang Long was transferred to the coal mine where his father used to be an electrician. At first, he thought it was easier to be an electrician, but more difficult than being a construction worker. The coal mine uses 380 volts of high-voltage electricity, which is very dangerous to operate. Workers must wear special clothes to climb up and down, and accidents may happen if they are not careful. That summer, due to the high temperature, the cable began to burst, which would threaten the life safety of all employees. All electricians were urgently called to join the rescue work, and Pang Long, as a new employee, was arranged to deliver various tools for the masters. The rescue work lasted for two hours, and Pang Long was out of breath after running for two hours. Fortunately, after everyone's desperate rescue, we finally saved the day! However, Pang Long was so tired that he collapsed to the ground like a broken frame.