湖南省城步苗族自治县是湘桂交界的高寒山区。自古称“荒蛮之地”,数千年来聚居着苗、瑶、汉、侗等十多个民族的人民。由于历史上反动统治阶级对少数民族进行残酷的阶级压迫和民族压迫,这里的文化教育极为落后。民国时期,国民党政府在这里试办过“民众图书馆”,可是.馆中 Hunan Chengbu Miao Autonomous County is the alpine mountainous area at the junction of Hunan and Guangxi. Since ancient times, “wild land”, thousands of years live in Miao, Yao, Han, Dong and other people of more than 10 ethnic groups. Due to the cruel class oppression and ethnic oppression of the ethnic minorities by the reactionary ruling classes in history, cultural education here is extremely backward. During the period of the Republic of China, the Kuomintang government tried out a “public library” here, but it was in the museum