| Karez is the wisdom of the working people of the arid regions in the process ofadaptation to the natural environment initiative, underground water conservancyprojects with high human value, and the precious cultural heritage of mankind. It hasgreat significance in our cultural history, history of science, irrigation historyresearch, and has a very high value for the study of the history of Xinjiang.Scientific and accurate understanding of the Karez requires multi-disciplinary,multi-angle study the Karez characteristics and historical development, fullyunderstand and mining Karez cultural connotation and practical value for theeffective protection and use of the Karez an important cultural heritage importantpractical significance.Based on the Karez of the Turpan region as the research object, mainly from theperspective of the protection of cultural change, indigenous knowledge andparticipatory research methods, the use of the field survey, observation, interviews,and historical documents ethnology, history of Karez development, save the statusquo, traditional culture and process changes were analyzed.This paper consists of five parts:"Introduction" brief research backgroundpapers, papers innovation, core concepts, theories, and research; Chapter one "qanatin oasis civilization" in the position of the history of the situation, karez turpanintroduced present situation of the development and karez preservation;Chapter two“indigenous knowledge in the the Turpan Karez development process†focus onunderstanding of the water on the Uighur main the Turpan local residents, Karez andthe social and economic life of the local residents, Karez, the relationship of thesettlements, the local residents of Karez organizational management made adetailed description of the analysis; Chapter three "the Karez protection skillsChange of the Karez traditional construction tools, mining process, and Karezprotection engineering in modern scientific and technological means were comparedand analyzed; Chapter four "modernization under the background of karezprotection",karez protection put forward suggestions to the existing conditions,Including “the application for the list of world heritage†work, how to respect theindigenous knowledge at the same time protection karez, makes public participationin cultural heritage protection work, etc. |
