The original singer of the song is Fu Na.
Fu Na is an outstanding young guzheng player. She has been a member of the Chinese Academy of Arts and Sciences for over 20 years, and is now a member of the Guangdong Opera and Dance Drama Theatre's Ethnic Dance Theatre, which is the largest opera house in China. She is now a guzheng player in the National Orchestra of Guangdong Opera and Dance Drama Theater.
Personal Experience
At the age of nine, she learned the zither from Mr. Wen Fuze, a famous guzheng master, and received formal music training. In the 1990s, she studied under Mr. Wang Zhongshan, and was awarded with Mr. Wang's "Fast Fingering Sequence". She is now a guzheng player in the National Orchestra of Guangdong Opera and Dance Drama Theater.
Playing Style
Fu Na's playing skills are skillful, elegant and free, and her tone is beautiful, strong and soft. It has both traditional charm and modern flavor.
The song "Hard to Part" was composed by Yin Wenqi, with lyrics by Doll, both songwriters I greatly admire. It is not an exaggeration to say that Alan Tam's Mandarin songs before '92, as long as it is an adaptation of the song, can maintain or even exceed the level of the original basically are the words of the doll, and as for other lyricists such as Ding Xiaowen, Liu Yurui, etc. lyrics are just not contrary to the melody, only the doll, can be very good in line with the melody, and even give the original did not have the implication in it, such as the "flowers in the water".
Yin Wenqi, not many works, wrote to Alan Tam, in addition to the song "hard to part", and later in the "let love continue" in the "why bitter" is also very touching. There is also an original work by Xue Zhongming lyrics and music "I Love This Memory", the intro is somewhat like the "Art Sea Floating Platform", but the back is still different, there is no Cantonese version of this song, in this Alan Tam 92 years before the Mandarin song is the only one.