Ancient songs are mainly divided into four parts: creation, maple songs, floods and crossing mountains and rivers. Among them, casting the sun and making the moon mentioned metallurgical technology, which embodied the brand of bronze culture; "Cutting Fengxiang" describes the old case and shows the social management mechanism during the tribal alliance period ... The whole epic is handed down by oral memory. The whole poem belongs to the Miao rhyme five-character structure, which is more than 15,000 lines long and has shaped more than 100 famous people with surnames, full of romanticism and idealism. Metaphor, exaggeration, parallelism, personification, questioning and other rhetorical devices are widely used in poetry, which vividly reflects the Miao ancestors' explanation of the universe and the origin of mankind and the people's achievements in creating human history through hard struggle, and is full of romanticism and idealism.
Among them, Wang Anjiang Version of Miao Ancient Songs, represented by Wang Anjiang, is a classic. He spent most of his life begging for a living and pursuing the melody of Miao ancient songs. He traveled all over China and was called a true cultural watcher.
Miao ancient songs and myths are sung in drum club festivals, weddings, funerals, gatherings of relatives and friends, festivals and other occasions, and the singers are mostly middle-aged and elderly people, wizards and singers. Banquet is an important occasion for singing ancient songs.