The current Chinese funeral music is selected from the folk music of Ansai area in northern Shaanxi province. in the early 1940s, An Bo, a music worker in Yan'an, collected a piece of Shangtong style funeral music when he went deep into the Ansai area. 1942, Liu Zhidan's coffin was moved to Bao'an county (present-day Zhidan county), and in the general meeting of the people of northern Shaanxi province who held a public memorial service for Liu Zhidan, for the first time, An Bo filled in lyrics to this song and played it, named "Public Memorial Service for Comrade Zhidan". The song was first performed by An Bo at a public memorial service for Liu Zhidan in northern Shaanxi. 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, and after 1949, the first conductor of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Military Orchestra, Luo Lang, configured the harmony of this song, which was used as a military band's ceremonial song.

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 widely circulated in the Jin-Shaan area according to the folk funeral and other tunes, adapted into a formal dirge. This dirge with China's national style has been used to this day.