Abstract: “Gulaohua”（ancient ethic poems）is an encyclopedia to study the convention of the Miao people.It contains the application of the legal subject of the Miao convention in fairness and justice,representing the legal creation of an ancient nation on the aspects of content,form,consciousness,and effect.In consistency with the leading value orientation of traditional Chinese legal culture,it also creates a folk way to conscious legal culture in the forms of poems and laws and spreads the information of legal ecology.The contribution of “Gulaohua” to Chinese legal culture lies in the following aspects:firstly,it is the text carrier and the means of succeeding the ancient convention of the Miao people in Wuling Mountain areas;secondly,it is the most authoritative legal basis and criterion to solve problems in land system,marriage system,and internal conflicts of the Miao people;thirdly,it contains simple philosophical idea,reflecting the existence philosophy of the Miao people that everything is derived from the same origin and making an important part of the complete and independent simple Materialism of the Miao people.

Key words: the Miao people, Gulaohua（ancient ethic poems）, value of legal culture, convention