This paper examines the singing practice of modern Chinese art songs with a focus on professional soprano Xu Hongxia (许红霞), who is a professor of voice from Zhejiang Conservatory of Music (浙江音乐学院), an ambassador and advocate of modern Chinese art song. Combining Jin Tielin’s (金铁霖) singing principles of seven important elements in articulating modern Chinese art songs, this study brings forth new insights from Xu Hongxia, via interviews, and proposes a synthesized model for the performance of singing Chinese art songs that can be useful and practical for practitioners of art songs, including students and novice singers. Here, we analyze a piece entitled Spring at Wuling (武陵春·春晚), composed by Wu Yu (吴宇), poetry by Li Qingzhao (李清照), a modern composition combining old text from Song Dynasty to illustrate important performance practices advocated by Jin Tielin. From explicit details expressed by Xu Hongxia and through thorough analysis of musical scores, we conclude the vital elements of the Jin Tielin’s framework focusing on three (3) interrelated elements that are most directly relevant to the interpretive process of art song performance: (1) emotion, (2) diction, and (3) artistic cultivation as manifested in image construction.