贵州黔东南清水江流域一带是全国苗族最大的聚居区地。在这里流传着一种以创世为主体内容的诗体神话,俗称“古歌”或“史歌”。1979年贵州人民出版社根据民间调查所得的资料整理而成的《苗族古歌》,由4组共13首神话叙事诗组成,总计8000多行。是我国现存的民间口传的惟一非宗教典籍的传世记史诗。 Guizhou Qiandongnan Qingshui River Basin is the largest concentration of Habitat Miao. Spread here is a poetic myth of the creation as the main content, commonly known as “ancient song ” or “history song ”. The Miao Ancient Song, compiled by Guizhou People’s Publishing House on the basis of information collected from the civil investigation in 1979, consists of 4 groups of 13 mythological narrative poems, totaling more than 8,000 lines. Is the epic poetry handed down from the only non-religious classics in China’s existing folk oral tradition.