Zulela Dalhan

Zulela Dalhan

Zulela Dalhan is an excellent epic of the Mongolian Ministry of Werat tribe,which is called the encyclopedia of Mongolian early history and culture.It is translated into Chinese by Zhao Wengong and Danba.

Zulela Dalhan tells the story of two heroes,Borihan and Mangnai,defending their country against aggression.Borihan and Mangnai had borne the responsibility of opposing aggression and defending the people from the moment they were born.Their opponent is Mungus.Mungus was an ambitious man who waged a war of aggression in order to expand and plunder.Borihan and Mangnai,with the spirit of“wisdom,courage and strength”,fought against Mungus.In the end,Borihan and Mangnai succeeded in saving the people and recovering their homeland.

The epic vividly depicts the social and economic forms,moral concepts,religious beliefs,human customs and so on during the disintegration of the Mongolian clan commune,with the unique thinking mode of the Mongolian nationality.So this epic has high academic value.The following excerption describes the battle between the hero and the enemy.

The hero clenched his fists，

The power of twenty dragons on his hands;

The hero stomped his feet,

And the power of the wind sprang up on his legs.

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As powerful as the lion and the colossus.

He clinched with Mungus again,

He wrestled with Mungus again.

He rushed to the mighty Mungus,

To the aged Hooller Zaige.

Borihan roared like a bull,

And swooped up like a male camel.