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

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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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Anonymous 0 Comments

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.

Anonymous 0 Comments

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.