Veteran Chinese director Su Li died last Monday at the age of 88.

A grand funeral was held on Saturday in southeast China's Changchun city with the attendance of many celebrities including CCTV host Cui Yongyuan.

From early 1950 to early 1980, Su Li directed / co-directed 16 films, which are little known outside of Chinese mainland.

His best works include Guerilla of the Plain, about a guerilla force fighting the invading Japanese; Red Kids, about a group of young communist fighters during the 1930s; and the best of all - Third Sister Liu, a musical about a young girl won a singing challenge to stop a local lord's plan of robbing the villagers' tea mountain.

(CRI May 10, 2005)