What is the name of the dirge that is played at funerals nowadays?

哀乐（dirge）

:āi yuè

A mournful piece of music dedicated to a funeral or memorial service. The content of dirge and the way it is played and sung vary from country to country, from nation to nation, and from period to period in history. China's current dirge is selected from the folk music of the Ansei region of northern Shaanxi Province. in the early 1940s, Yan'an music workers An Bo in the Ansei region in the depth of the collection of a commercial tone dirge. 1942 Liu Zhidan's coffin was moved to Bao'an County (today's Zhidan County), in the Shaan'an people's public mourning Liu Zhidan's General Assembly, for the first time, by the lyrics of An Bo for this song, played the song, named the "Public Worship of Comrade Zhidan". At that time by the Yan'an Lu Xun Art Institute band undertook the task of playing music. Since then, this song has been gradually spread in the Jinchaji and other liberated areas. 1949, the People's Liberation Army Military Orchestra, the first conductor Luo Lang configured the harmony of this song, as the military band's ceremonial music use.

In 1936, Comrade Liu Zhidan was instructed by the Party Central Committee to lead an eastward expedition, and unfortunately sacrificed himself in the town of Sanjiao in Zhongyang County, Shanxi Province. 1942, the Party Central Committee decided to relocate the casket of Liu Zhidan to his hometown of ---- Bao'an County (today's Zhidan County). In order to make this moving ceremony to make some grand, "Lu Yi" band took on the task of moving the spirit of playing music, and by Ma Ke, An Bo and other five music workers composed of mourning music composition group. They were based on the widely circulated in the Jin and Shaanxi area of the folk funeral and other songs, adapted into a formal dirge. This dirge with China's national style has been used to this day.