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What are the three heroic epics?

China's three famous heroic epics are Manas, Gesar and Jianger.

1, "Manas" is a local traditional folk literature in Kizilsu Kirgiz Autonomous Prefecture, Xinjiang, which tells the story of the heroic Manas and his seven generations of descendants fighting against various evil forces.

2. The Biography of King Gesar is a great heroic epic created by the Tibetan people in China. It originated in the historical period when the ancient Tibetan clan society began to disintegrate and the slave state power gradually formed, that is, from 200 BC to 300 BC to the 6th century AD.

3. "Jianggeer" was first produced in the Mongolian inhabited area in Xinjiang, China, and it was widely circulated in the Mongolian people in the vast areas of northern and southern Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang in the form of oral and handwritten copies, becoming a well-known heroic epic.