The original singer of "Chiling" is Tan Jing.
In 1998, she was admitted to the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and became a soloist. 2000, she performed for the first time at CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, which attracted attention from the audience; in the same year, she was known to audiences as a gold medal winner of the Ninth Youth Song Contest for the professional group's Popular Song. In 2002, she sang her first solo performance at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala, singing her famous song "On the Top of the Eastern Mountain", and has been on the CCTV Spring Festival Gala stage for twelve times.
In 2006, she graduated from the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Fine Arts with a master's degree in popular singing, and in 2010, she was featured in the "China National Image Promotional Film - Characters" as an outstanding representative of the arts and culture sector. 2016, she took part in the musical suspense and guessing reality TV show "Masked Singer Guessing", and unveiled her face in the 11th Golden Melody Ceremony.
Tan Jing's songs creatively blend folk music, pop music and stage theater, and her starring roles in Mulan Psalms, The White Haired Girl, Bird's Nest - Attraction and Princess Wencheng have explored the development of Chinese folk opera and local musicals.
The lyrics of "Chiling" are as follows:
The people under the stage walked by, and did not see the old color, the people on the stage sang, the heartbreaking song of separation, the word of love is difficult to ink, she sang to blood and the opera curtains, the drama curtains rise, the drama curtains fall. Who is the guest, a fold of the play, the water sleeves rise and fall, singing sadness and happiness singing clutch, nothing to do with me, fan open and close, gongs and drums ring and silent, the love of the play outside the play, by whom to say, accustomed to the joys and sorrows into the powder and ink. The old words sing through and so on, white bones and green ash are all I, the chaotic world of floating Ping endured to see the beacon burning the mountains and rivers, the lowly have not yet dared to forget the country, even if no one knows me, the people under the stage walked past, do not see the old color.
The people on the stage sang, heartbreaking parting song, love word is difficult to ink, she sang to blood and, the curtain rose, the curtain fell, who is the guest, accustomed to the joys and sorrows are hidden into the powder and ink. The old words sing through and so on, white bones and green ash are all I, the chaotic world of floating Ping endured to see the beacon burning mountains and rivers, low position did not dare to forget to worry about the country, even if no one knows me, under the stage people walked by, do not see the old color.
The people on stage sang, heartbreaking parting song, love word is difficult to ink, she sang to blood to and, theater curtains, theater curtains down, the end is a guest, you side of the song I appeared on the stage. The most important thing to remember is that you can't be a good person and you can't be a bad person.