Mongolian folk songs are divided into two main categories: ceremonial songs and pastoral songs. Mongolian folk songs are famous for their grand and majestic sound and high and melodious tunes. They are rich in content, describing love and marriage, praising horses, grasslands, mountains and rivers, and praising grassland heroes, etc. These folk songs reflect the Mongolian customs and people.
The long-tone folk songs are a pastoral genre reflecting the nomadic life of the Mongols, with a longer length, free rhythm, wide breath, deep emotion, and unique and delicate vibrato decorations. Long-key folk songs are sung in Mongolian, with a soothing and free rhythm, fewer words, and different styles depending on the region.
Mongolian folk songs are a unique form of singing with distinctive characteristics of nomadic and regional cultures, which tells the Mongolian nation's perception of history, culture, humanistic customs, morality, philosophy and art in the language peculiar to the grassland people. In Mongolian, the long tune is called "Uzhtudao", which means long song, relative to the short song, in addition to the long tune, there is also the meaning of a long history.