What music is played at the funeral?

The special songs for suona funeral include: Crying for Five Tables, Crying for the Emperor, Song of Heaven, A Flower, Crying for Other Songs, Big Buddha Tune, Korean Blowing Music, Great Mourning, Thousand Pieces of Paper, Crying for Seven Passes, and Su Wu Shepherd.

First, "Crying Five Tables" is a local genre of Quyi, which has various versions all over the country. Generally speaking, the bride in the old society cried and married. The variety show is complex and sad at the same time. This is really the "mouth-to-mouth life" of the bottom people.

Secondly, Song of the Sky was written by Qiu Chuji, the seven true Taoist figures in the north, and it came from Panxi Collection. Since it came out, it has always been valued by monks. Zi Yuan (Wang Daoyuan), a sage at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, annotated Tian Gexing, while Lu Xihang annotated Tian Gexing in the Ming Dynasty.

Thirdly, "A Flower" is a divertimento with the nature of self-report created by Guan Hanqing, a dramatist in Yuan Dynasty. This set of music skillfully shows the characteristics of Sanqu form with its natural and vivid, humorous and exaggerated language and bold and exaggerated style.

The origin of suona blowing in funeral;

Suona is a folk wind instrument with a long history, wide spread, rich skills and strong expressive force in China. It is one of the national musical instruments with cheerful and bold pronunciation, loud and clear, rigid and flexible, and is deeply loved and welcomed by the broad masses of the people. Widely used in folk weddings, funerals, ceremonies, music, ceremonies, sacrifices, and accompaniment of blowing songs, yangko parties, drum classes, local folk arts and operas.

Playing suona at funeral is a kind of yearning for the deceased, usually played on the way to wake up and go to the cemetery, and also when buried.