How do Chinese people sing using tones for both melody and words?

Question

How can they sing if changing a tone might change the meaning of a word? Doesn’t the “tonal direction” upward/downward of a word affect a melody?
How do those systems combine?

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Answer 1

Ok let me take this… my In laws are Chinese and sing ALOT ALOT ALOT OF CHINESE karaoke…my ears are bleeding after 30 seconds.

It just sounds awful.