The lyrics of "Moonlight Lover" were written by Yi Jiayang, and the music was composed by author Tan Dun and Jorge Calandrelli.

"Moonlight Lover" is a song written by Yi Jiayang, composed by Tan Dun and Jorge Calandrelli, and sung by Coco Li. It is included in the album "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Movie Soundtrack" released by Tan Dun ", the song is the Chinese theme song of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon". In October 2001, the song was included in Coco Lee's album "Promise". There is also an English version of the song "A Love Before Time".

On April 29, 2001, the song won the Best Song Award at the 20th Hong Kong Film Awards Ceremony; on April 8, 2016, Coco Lee finally won the "I Am a Singer" award for this song Season 4" Singer.

The creative background of "Moonlight Lover"

As the soundtrack producer of the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon", Tan Dun completed the creation of the film's original soundtrack in ten days. When Tan Dun created the film's soundtrack, he had no plan to write a theme song for the film. However, after the film was completed, Tan Dun began composing the film's theme song "Moonlight Lover" at the suggestion of the film producer.

With the assistance of Jorge Calandrelli, Tan Dun based on the Xinjiang folk songs sung by Luo Xiaohu in the movie, combined with the essence of the movie music, and finally filled in the lyrics to create There are two versions of the song. The song features Chinese-American cellist Yo-Yo Ma as the lead performer on the cello, and also invites Coco Lee, who is compatible with Eastern and Western pop culture, to sing the Chinese and English versions of the song.