The original singer of "The Burial of Flowers" in Dream of Red Mansions is Chen Li.
Chen Li, born in Jilin, China, is a female singer from Mainland China. She is the original singer of the 1987 version of "A Dream of Red Mansions". Chen Li grew up in Peking Opera in elementary school and later worked as a laboratory technician at Changchun FAW. Wang Liping, the composer of the 1987 TV series "Dream of Red Mansions" discovered her and asked her to participate in the recording of the theme song of the show.
Chen Li sang the music songs of the 1987 version of the TV series "Dream of Red Mansions", interpreting the tragic sounds from nature. He was also the actor of Sister-in-law Liu in the play. In 2007, Chen Li participated in CCTV's "Art Life - Dream of Red Mansions Reunion" column. This is her public debut. In 2018, in the CCTV music variety show "Classic Chant and Spread", Chen Li and Yu Shaoqun*** jointly performed the classic song "Wan Ning Mei".
Chen Li's music evaluation
When she sang the music of Red Mansion, Chen Li was just an ordinary female worker singer. Because her voice met Wang Liping's requirements for music, she was selected. Chen Li's husband passed away due to an accident at that time. Perhaps she was empathizing with her life experience. She completely injected her special emotions into her singing, and sang a natural and tragic sound that was saddened by the vicissitudes of life and moved the soul. This was also Chen Li's swan song. Later, due to changes in her life, she stopped engaging in singing career.
Chen Li’s perfect interpretation of the music of Red Mansion must be “unprecedented and unprecedented”. When I got close to Chen Li, I was moved by her dreamy and natural voice on the stage, and I felt Chen Li's beautiful sincerity and calmness off the stage.
If Mr. Wang Liping made the classic music of Dream of Red Mansions, it must be Chen Li who made this work one of the few natural sounds that can accompany the years and stay in the heart forever. It is their musical work with devotion to art and passion for life that has become a classic of an era.