Zouma Town is a town in Jiulongpo District, Chongqing. There is a kind of folk story that is created and passed down orally by people who take "zouma" (driving horses) as their profession. People usually call it "zouma story". The exact date of the origin of the zouma story is unknown, but the zouma field was established in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty and soon prospered. The story should have developed synchronously with it. Its formation has a history of at least four or five hundred years. Because the living environment and life experience of the "zouma" people are different from those of ordinary people, the stories they create and tell show certain characteristics. Zouma folk stories are complex in content and diverse in types. In addition to the general types of folk legends, such as myths and fairy tales, folk legends, animal and plant legends, folk legends and life stories, they also contain other unique cultural information, such as the legend of the dragon and snake totem of the Ba people. As an important relic of ancient Ba culture, the number of such stories is quite large. When the "Three Collections of Chinese Folk Literature" were compiled in the 1980s, the catalog of folk stories collected in the town reached 10,915, and the number of records completed reached 9,714. In addition, more than 3,000 folk songs, more than 4,000 proverbs, and more than 4,000 allegorical sayings and proverbs were collected. There are 316 folk storytellers in the town, of which 2 can tell 1,000 stories, 3 can tell 500 to 1,000 stories, and 10 can tell 200 to 500 stories. Zouma folk stories have the characteristics of diversity of telling time and occasion, multi-source composition of stories, and coexistence of local culture and foreign culture. In 1990, Zouma Town was named "Hometown of Folk Literature" by the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture; in 1992, Gongcun Village was named "China Folk Story Village"; in 1998, UNESCO and the China Folk Literature and Art Association jointly awarded Wei Xiande the title of "China Folk Storyteller" (a total of 10 people nationwide). At present, Zouma stories are facing a serious crisis, the main problem is that there is a lack of people to inherit them. Saving and protecting Zouma stories can not only enrich people's cultural life, but also provide research materials for various disciplines such as anthropology, culture, religion, ethnology and dialectology.