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The Franciscan monk Giovanni da Pian del Carpini noted in his travel report about the joyfulness of chanting by Mongols, that "after one or two days without food they were not impatient, but sang and played as if they had enjoyed the best meal" (Risch, 1930, page 90). Likewise, their delight in musical feasts was quite large. According to the historian Juwaini, after the conquest of Bukhara (1220), Genghis Khan let the wine cups circulate, and sent to the singers in the city to sing and dance, while the Mongols collected their own songs to the tunes (Boyle 1958, Page 104). Mongolian folk poetry, fragments of epic heroes and numerous wedding hymns, praise, and lamentations are to be found in the oldest source of the Mongolian Art of Song, the unofficial chronicle "Secret History of the Mongols," which developed in the time of the Mongol Empire Education (1240) (Ernst Emsheimer).
In the 13th Century, the Great Khans had their own singers, who praised and chanted Khan epic chantings and accolades over the Mongol homeland, their nature and the life of the people.
The west-mongolian legend is about people imitating the sounds of nature. The Dominican monk Andre de Longjumeau compared the singing of the Mongols to the howling of the wolves, as the peculiarity of the Mongolian variety of sound and singing style differs considerably from the Western Style.
The Mongolians as nomadic tribes occupied themselves primarily with hunting and stock breeding. So they sat down, day in and day out and dealt with the elemental forces of nature, at the same time being closely connected to them. Only a skilled, respectful relationship with nature secured them the favor of all visible and invisible forces. The Mongols face nature with great respect and reverence. The earth, the mountains and rivers are sacred to them, and they live in perfect harmony with nature. The famous west-mongolian narrator of epics Avirmed said: "This people, worshipping mountains, celebrating with singing,telling odes, and epic tales, is the path of the ancient, who worshipped the fire and called out to the heavens of hunting."
