We can't think without reading. Literature makes us feel the fortune of reading and gives us all kind of knowledge. Everything has beginning and history. I want to start writing history of Mongolian literature especially the earliest and the most famous book of Mongolia. Mongolian literature had been developing orally especially those song, fairy tale, shaman's worship word, proverb, words of war and hunting until 13th century by nomads. Fairy tales and legends those have been told for centuries are similar to American-Indian's and ancient Greek philosopher Ezop's tale, some legends of the Bible's old testament. The most of oral folk tales and legends were written in 'The secret history of Mongolia' in 1240. This book is one of the most studied and popular of Nomad people was translated to many languages. The author of the book is still unknown.
Like many texts during the period, it contains elements of folklore and poetry, and is not really as factual as some historians would have wanted. It is also at times inconsistent. The work sets out with a rather mythical genealogy of Genghis Khan's family. The description of Genghis Khan (Temüjin)'s life begins with the kidnapping of his mother Oulen by his father Yesugei. It then covers Genghis Khan ( Temüjin)'s early life, the difficult times after the murder of his father, the many conflicts, wars, and plots before he gains the title of Genghis Khan in 1206. The later parts of the work deal with Genghis' and Ögödei'(his son)s campaigns, and the text ends with Ögödei's reflections on what he did well and what he did wrong. Several passages of the Secret History appear in slightly different versions in the 17th century Mongolian chronicle Altan Tobchi.
If you want to know more about early Mongolia and Genghis Khan you definitely should read "the Secret history of Mongol". It is sold on amazon.com.
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