Horqin narrative folk songs are a form of folk art that is mainly spread on the Horqin grassland in eastern Inner Mongolia. With complex plots, numerous characters, and reflecting major social issues, folk songs with a strong local flavor are produced and developed on the basis of real people and real events, and can only be spread and passed on through the singing of many folk artists. In 2008, it was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage. The reason why Horqin narrative folk songs, a folk art form, can be produced and passed on on the Horqin grassland is inseparable from the rich cultural soil of the Horqin grassland. On the Horqin grassland, the folk culture custom of rapping "Mangus Uliger", that is, rapping heroic epics, has been circulated. In the Qing Dynasty after the 17th century, a new folk art form, Mongolian storytelling "Huren Uliger", came into being. Huren Uliger is a folk rap art derived from epics, holaibo, praises and Han storytelling. It is one of the art forms that the Mongolian people in eastern Inner Mongolia, especially on the Horqin grassland, love to hear and see. Why are the nomadic Mongolians good at long folk songs, while the semi-agricultural and semi-pastoral Khorchin Mongolians are good at narrative folk songs? The author believes that in the sparsely populated wilderness, the nomads' long songs, which are both singing and shouting, may be more able to express their special feelings for the prairie and relieve their loneliness. The settled Khorchin people prefer to confide in others. Therefore, narrative folk songs naturally focus more on people's fate and their spiritual feelings. Since Khorchin narrative folk songs are mostly processed by folk artists based on real people and real events, the titles of most narrative folk songs are people's names: such as "Dana Bara", "Uyudai", "Zhedel Nana", "White Tiger Brother", etc. According to the old people, on the Khorchin grassland, if a young man falls in love with a girl or is unfortunately separated from his lover, he must bring gifts to ask local famous folk artists to compose songs for him. If a warrior or hero appears in the village, the village's "Ebugede" (elder) will also personally find a singer or artist to compose a song. More often, folk artists are often inspired by some beautiful and moving stories around them. A few people sit together, singing one sentence after another, and soon they can hum a beautiful folk song. A narrative folk song often needs to be sung orally by dozens or even hundreds of folk artists and constantly refined and processed before it can become a good song that will last for a long time. At the same time, a narrative folk song may have multiple versions and multiple lyrics and singing methods depending on the region. For example, the folk song "Wuyudai" has "Wuyudai" in Kezuozhong Banner, "Wuyudai" in Zhalute Banner, and "Wuyudai" in Kulun Banner. The content is roughly the same, but the place where the story takes place is different. [2] Inheritance method In the process of composing and spreading Horqin narrative folk songs, the rap artist "Huerqi" has made an indispensable contribution. In addition to "telling stories" from village to village, they spread beautiful and moving folk songs to every corner of the Horqin grassland. At the same time, they also learn new folk songs from their fellow Mongolians, and then polish and process the newly learned folk songs according to their own artistic concepts. For example, the famous folk song "Brother White Tiger" was improvised by Mongolian folk art master Huerqi Pajie after he heard the tragic story of a young man named White Tiger and a beautiful girl named Luima whose sincere love was torn apart alive. [2] Protection measures Since the early 1980s, cultural publishing departments have systematically collected, studied and sorted out this national cultural treasure. The more influential folk song collections that have been published include "One Thousand Mongolian Folk Songs" published by the Nationalities Publishing House (nearly half of which are Horqin narrative folk songs), "Horqin Narrative Folk Songs" (Volumes 1, 2 and 3) published by Inner Mongolia Cultural Publishing House, and "Folk Songs Sung by Folk Singer Chaganbala" published by Inner Mongolia People's Publishing House (most of which are narrative folk songs).