Before the 13th century, when the boundaries between written history and literature were less clear in the Mongol Empire, the practice of exaggerating historical events with artful embellishments was widespread among the Mongols. One of the people who worked within this tradition and initiated the development of Mongolian historical literature was the great Mongolian writer Vanchinbal Injinash.

VANCHINBALYN INJINASH, born 1837, was a Mongolian poet, novelist, and historian from a Mongol area in modern-day Liaoning, China. He was a descendant of the 28th generation of Bogd Genghis Khan. He wrote hundreds of poems, but is perhaps best known for his historical novel The Blue Chronicle, set in the 13th-century Yuan dynasty. His works remained unpublished during his lifetime, but were copied and passed down through Mongolian peasant and noble families in manuscript form until their publishing in the 20th century.