“伊玛堪”的起源众说纷纭,但经过研究与“萨满跳神”有内部关联。“伊玛堪”的英雄叙事主要指劳动人民长期精心创作并在他们当中广泛流传的、以颂赞原始部落间征服与反征服中的英雄业绩为主要内容的一种有讲有唱、以唱为主的传统民间口头文学样式。“伊玛堪”作为非物质文化遗产保护和传承的意义在于引起跟多人群的广泛关注,更好的保护人类历史的精髓。 “Imam Kan ” the origin of different opinions, but after research and “Shaman ” has an internal connection. The heroic narrative of “Imamkan” mainly refers to a kind of singing and singing with the working people as the main content elaborated over a long period of time and widely circulated among them, praising the heroic achievements in the primitive tribal conquest and anti-conquest, To sing the traditional folk oral literature style. The significance of the protection and inheritance of the Imarhan as an intangible cultural heritage is that it arouses widespread concern with more people and better protects the essence of human history.