| This paper takes Dali Bazi which located in the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau as a research case and the study of water as a breakthrough point.It studies water-related content including irrigation engineering technology,water right system and faith of water god,revealing the social and cultural connotations in the region of Dali Bazi.It also discusses society,history,military,culture,system and belief in the minority areas in China’s southwest territory where the terrain is mainly Bazi.At the same time,it provides new ideas for social study of water conservancy both at home and abroad.The research content is mainly divided into five chapters: Taking the natural landform and regional history and culture of Dali Bazi as the theme,the first chapter introduces the influence of Dali Bazi on the distribution pattern of villages from two dimensions of space and time,points out that rice planting forms the dominating agricultural culture of Dali Bazi and describes the main livelihood that the community were engaged in different historical periods and the corresponding social and cultural characteristics.Centered around the main line of the development and construction of water conservancy of Dali Bazi in historical periods and based on the data of archaeological report and Yunnan local historical materials,it conducts a comprehensive investigation of the evolution of regional irrigation engineering technology and concludes that the local water conservancy were basically composed of natural streams,ditches and pond storage in its early time and that after Ming and Qing Dynasties it experienced rapid development as well as the grinding technology in water conservancy.Focused on the cases of water-dividing practice,ditch dredging advocate by the officials and also channelization,the third chapter describes the influence on regional society brought by immigration and official appointment system in water conservancy,uncovers how the central dynasty shaped the border social culture and discusses how the people,officials and gentry were mobilized into the process of local water conservancy construction.In the fourth chapter,it conducts empirical research on historical water rights and discusses the formulation of Dali folk water distribution wheel irrigation regulations and the ruling of water conservancy litigation.It also tries to sort out the state intervention in the water conservancy construction and management,and the influence of the gentry on the rural water rights affairs and tries to talk to the “water conservancy cycle theory” proposed by the famous French Sinologist Wei Peixin.Based on absorbing and referring to folklore and by adopting ethnological field research methods,it studies the Buddhism water conservancy,social memory of dragon king and the worship of water god and folk sacrifice in Dali Bazi region,therefore exploring the construction process of rights and symbols in Bazi society,which is an comprehensive study on the social ideological structure of Dali Bazi water conservancy.In the conclusion part,it believes that Dali Bazi water conservancy is affected by the regional ecological environment in terms of irrigation potential energy and area.At the same time,it summarizes the regional cultural characteristics of Dali Bazi water conservancy in various historical stages and reflects the theories of “ water control country” and“water conservancy society”. |
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