This is not to say that Mongolia has lacked its own oral literature. Their spoken and sung literature has reached a level of extremely high refinement. When they recount their epics, they use a ma-t'ou-ch'ing [a stringed instrument with a scroll carved like a horse's head].
當然這不表示蒙古沒有自己的口頭文學，他們的說唱文學發展已到很精緻、嚴謹的程度，他們講自己的敘事史，是用馬頭琴。