发现石门坎

威宁石门坎是贵州西北部的一个小村寨，是我国大花苗聚居区的居中地点。清末英国传教士柏格理发现了石门坎，在此建教堂、办学校、办医院，创制苗文，引发苗族大规模皈依基督教。20世纪30年代开始，国民政府发现了石门坎异文化区，采取许多政策对石门坎进行文化改造。新中国建立后，为贯彻党的民族政策，党和政府针对石门坎的特殊性，在消除民族隔阂，实现民族平等、民族团结方面做了大量工作。80年代中期后，石门坎的价值重新被发现，得到各级领导的重视，再次成为为们研究的热点。

Finding the Stone Gateway

The Weining's Stone Gateway is a small village located in northwestern Guizhou Province.It's the central inhabiting area of Dahua Miao minority.Samuel Pollard,the missionary from Britain,first found the village in the late Qing Dynasty,and established churches,schools,hospitals,and created Miao written language.Because of his work,many Miao people started to believe in Christianity.From the 1930s,the government of the Republic of China discovered this special cultural area and made several policies to reform this area's culture into the majority's one.In order to carry out the minority policies of the Party,the government of the People's Republic of China did a lot of work to dispel the misunderstanding between the majority and minorities,which was based on the distinction of the Stone Gateway,and that also has the purpose of realizing the fairness and the cooperation between different people.And in the 1980s,the value of the Stone Gateway was rediscovered.Receiving attention from various leaders,the village has become a hot issue of research again.