foreign name: funeral music

Song duration: 5:

Arrangement: Kyle

Music style: solemn and stirring, mournful

Song language: wind music

Category: sad music specially used for funeral or memorial service

1936.191919191916 But in this year, Comrade Liu Zhidan, an important founder of the revolutionary base area in northern Shaanxi, died unfortunately and gloriously in a battle. At that time, Comrade Mao Zedong, Chairman of the CPC Central Committee of China, in grief, gave the literary and art workers in the border area an important task: to quickly compose a funeral music for the upcoming memorial service for Comrade Liu Zhidan. Therefore, Kyle, a "people's artist" (1918-1976, a world-renowned modern composer in China), whose representative works are the mass songs Nanniwan, We Workers Have Strength, and the opera White-haired Girl, which he led in Yan 'an, quickly collected materials and soon reached an agreement. In the end, the creative group combined the main melody melody of two folk songs in northern Shaanxi, Embroidered Pocket and Pearl Rolling Curtain, slightly modified it, and reduced the speed to "extremely slow" to become a sad and moving wind music, which is the "funeral music" that has been used to this day. It can be seen that the old friend who remembers this song first is undoubtedly Comrade Liu Zhidan.