The reason why sad music sounds scary is that sad music is played when a person dies and has a funeral. As soon as you hear the sad music, you know that someone has died, so it sounds scary.

China is a relatively large country, and traditional funeral rituals vary greatly from north to south. In the north, suona-type wind music is the main type, in the south, string music is the main type, and in some places, drum music is used. Speaking of traditional folk funeral songs, they can be found everywhere. The "Sorrow" that is now commonly used in the country was adapted and composed by Liu Chi based on folk music. In addition, among the mourning songs compiled and adapted from traditional ancient songs is Shanghai Nanxiang's "Crying Funeral Song", which is the only preserved Wu song from ancient times.

Funeral songs are customary songs sung in traditional Chinese folk funeral rituals. It is also called "funeral song", "night song", "filial piety song", "elegy", "elegy song", "mourning drum", etc. Funeral songs are generally sung only during funeral rituals after the death of the elderly and middle-aged people. The elders of the deceased will not participate. Singing forms include solo singing, duet singing, chorus singing, leading singing and supporting singing, etc. In order to adapt to the ritual procedures of "wake-up", "burial" and "burial" in funeral ceremonies, there are three different forms of sitting singing, walking singing and dancing singing.

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Little known is the "sorrowful music" commonly used in funeral ceremonies in our country. It was adapted by Liu Chi and others from the "Wind" played by the suona of northern Shaanxi folk music. It evolved from "Fengling". The music was reviewed by the Political Bureau of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China in September 1949 and was officially approved as music for ceremonies. Liu Chi (1921-1998): a folk drum composer. When mentioning the movie "Shangganling", people will immediately think of the vast song "My Motherland". When mentioning "Heroic Sons and Daughters", people can't help but sing "Beacon Smoke Rolling, Singing Heroes".

Compared with these passionate songs, the episode of the movie "Flowers of the Motherland" will definitely make the audiences who were once young feel excited, "Let us swing the oars and the boat will push away the waves." It was Liu Chi who composed the music for these songs. People from northern Shaanxi have a straightforward personality, and they show great joy and sorrow in everything they do! There is nothing more joyful than "The Great Formation", and nothing more sad than "The Pink Lotus" that moves the face. The sad music we use in formal occasions today also originated from the folk music of northern Shaanxi.

In the spring of 1942, music workers Liu Chi and Zhang Lu from Yan'an Lu Xun Academy of Arts and Letters went to Mizhi with a delegation of river defense soldiers to collect music, and heard the sweet meaning of "Pink Lotus" played by suona artist Chang Wenqing. Tragic and particularly touching. Liu Chi and others adapted this suona piece and performed it with a variety of folk music. It was used as mourning music at the ceremony for Genghis Khan's mausoleum and the ceremony to send off Liu Zhidan's coffin. This became the prototype of "Sorrowful Music".