关键词： 古苗文, 城步, 石刻

Abstract: Whether there were any characters in the ancient Miao People is always a myth before we found Miao’s characters at the moment.Lately,the author had discovered more than 100 stones with inscription in the field investigation into Dankou Town of Chengbu.The characters inscripted on these stones are very similar to the ancient Miao’s characters in ancient documents and folk-balladry,to the Miao’s character widely used during the insurrectionary army of Miao People in Ming and Qing Dynasty,to some folk Miao’s characters recently used in common.The characters inscripted on stones belong to the ancient Miao people which lost for two and a half centuries.So the conception “there weren’t characters but only spoken language” should be under discuss.

Key words: ancient Miao&rsquo, s characters, Chengbu, stone inscription