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This book takes Fu Yingren, a Manchu folk storyteller, as the research object. It integrates the texts told by him and other scattered materials (including interviews and memoirs of scholars) to construct the academic history of "Thousand Storytellers". The book is divided into two parts. The first part conducts detailed archival research on the myths, stories, Manchu legends and other text materials told by Fu Yingren, and discusses the process of Fu Yingren as the narrator in a specific historical period, and the process of discovering, recording, and organizing his texts, as well as As a writer, he played an important role in Manchu folk culture; the following part is the current relatively complete and comprehensive research result of "Donghaiwo Collection". The author focuses on the text, variations, inheritors and related religious and folk customs of "Donghaiwo Collection".