Recommended songs for funerals include: "Elegy" (Funeral March), "The Great Funeral", "Weeping for the Emperor", "Su Wu Sheep", "The Safe Road to the West", "Han Biao Song" , "Ten Kneelings to Father/Mother", "Crying Farewell Song", "Thousand Sheets of Paper", "Alkin in the Heart", "Crying Seven Passes", "Su Wu Sheep", "Fireworks Sigh", "Song of the Blue Sky", etc. , In addition, modern popular songs such as "Let's Go", "Father", "Mother", "Let Me See You Again", etc. are also suitable to be played at funerals.

The most recommended song to play at a funeral is "Elegy" (funeral march).

"Sad Music" was adapted from a northern folk wind and percussion tune by Luo Lang, the first leader of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Military Band. The famous "March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army", "Three Major Disciplines and Eight Points of Attention", "The East Is Red" and "Flower Presentation Song" were all adapted and composed by him. He was the one who conducted the military band at the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China. "Sorrow" is one of his most influential and outstanding works.

Luo Lang said that when he saw the bodies of the martyrs who died still maintaining a fighting posture, he felt that mourning was not just mourning, but should also express the emotion of remembering and remembering the heroes' great achievements, so when he created it, he wrote in E flat On the basis of the minor key, the technique of temporarily switching to a major key is used at the strongest point of the whole song, making the tune passionate and resolute after sobbing and crying.

"Mourning Music" was first performed in 1945 at a ceremony to commemorate the fallen martyrs in Zhangjiakou; in 1949, the foundation laying ceremony of the People's Heroes Monument was held in Tiananmen Square, and it was officially approved by the central government as national funeral music. After Stalin passed away in 1953, "Sorrow" was played on the Central People's Broadcasting Station for the first time.