The original singer of "Mother's Tears Are Like Water" is Wang Yuzhen.

"My Mother's Tears Are Like Water" is an episode of the movie "Red Guards of Honghu Lake". Wang Yuzhen, female, born in 1935, is from Mianyang, Hubei. Famous opera performing artist and national first-class actor. In 1981, he served as professor at the China Conservatory of Music and director of the National Vocal Music Research Office. He has successively served as Vice Chairman of Hubei Provincial Dramatists Association and Vice Chairman of Hubei Provincial Federation of Literary and Art Circles.

In 1959 and 1961, Wang Yuzhen successfully played the heroine Han Ying in the opera and movie "Red Guards of Honghu Lake" respectively, and has become popular all over the country since then. The heroine Han Ying she created has become one of the classic images in the memory of generations. The song "Honghu Water, Waves Beat Waves" from "Red Guards of Honghu Lake" she sang has been sung in the land of China for half a century and has become a red classic melody of the Chinese nation. And Wang Yuzhen's subsequent life journey has also been marked with a clear "Honghu" brand.

Excerpts from the lyrics of "My mother's tears are like water":

My mother's tears are like water, sprinkled little by little on my heart, and I don't know where to say the full words, holding in my mouth Tears call my mother, mother, mother said that twenty-six years ago, in the cold winter, the north wind was strong, Peng Batian, mourning Tianliang, occupied the fields, seized the huts, and drove my parents to the Hong Lake. That day It was snowing heavily, and my mother gave birth to me in the cabin. She had no money, burst into tears, and tore pieces of the quilt to make clothes. The north wind blew loudly on the lake, and the cabin was filled with white snowflakes. The bed was tattered like a fishing net. My father and mother , holding the child against his chest day and night.

From then on, there was a broken boat and a net, and the wind came and the rain came, and we worked hard day and night on the Honghu Lake. The dog lake bully, the living king of hell, robbed the fishing boat and tore the net. His life was lost, and my mother took her son to escape famine. Since the arrival of the Communist Party, the people of Honghu have seen the sun. Although it is dark in front of them, the sky will soon be bright...