| Funeral rites and music culture involve a very broad scope and have extremely complex connotations. Based on the investigation from field of Han nationality funeral rites and music in the northeastern of SiChuan Province such as Pingchang county Sima town Gexin village, this thesis summarizes the process and behavior of the funeral rites. By combining with the related literature and references, we systematically analyze the noumenon form of funeral music and its cultural meanings in the view of the funeral rites, the music and the music culture of ceremonies.This thesis consists of three parts of the Han nationality funeral in the north- eastern of Sichuan Province: the process of the Han nationality funeral ritual, the analysis of the ritual music ontology and the investigation of the culture theory of funeral ritual music. At present, the funeral rites in the northeastern of Sichuan Province includes pre-funeral rites, funeral and after-funeral rites, and totally 39 main cere- monies. The ritual music mainly consists of the vocal music and the instrumental music. Aria can divide into cry singing style, singing style and talking style. The name of tune of the instrumental music includes Feng Dian-Tou, Wen-Chao, Wu-Chao, Liang-Zi, Guo-Chang, Shuang-Feng, Xin-Gin-Zi, Ye-Mao-Guo-Qiao, Xia-He-Dong, San-Huan, etc.By studying the Han nationality funeral rites music and its text, and analy- zing the cases from the field investigation, the author finds that it still retains a complete set of immobilized, stylized, and folkloric procedure of the Han nationa- lity funeral rites in the northeastern of Sichuan Province. Among them, the funeral ritual music and Dao-Chang ceremonies are the most national characteristics, com- prehensive and integrated parts of the funeral rites in that area. Also they have fully represented the folk custom, national character, historical ideology, aesthetic and social values of the Han nationality in the northeastern of Sichuan Province.
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