Study On The Ecological Value Of The Mashan Miao's Nationality's Domesticated Animal

People's improper social economic activities have brought to an increasing serious stony desertification accompanied by some environmental ecological problems showed by ways of vegetation deterioration,water and soil loss,land productivity decline,and bare rocks,which directly threatens its sustainable development in Mashan area of Guizhou since the late 20 th century.Facing with this increasingly severe ecological security,governments at all levels have taken series of countermeasures,which appears to have little effect with even deriving more issues.However,it is a great pity that various theoretical analyses on this result presented by scholars from different discipline perspectives could not explain reasonably the failure of stony desertification relief.Since then the prevention of stony desertification has become a research focus by scholars both at home and abroad.Mashan Miao live in Mashan area with the most serious stony desertification in the southwest of China for generations.Local villagers have gathered abundant experiences and skills for high efficient utilization of local resources and protection of ecological systems during their daily living and production for centuries,among which wild animal domestication has formed into an integrated indigenous knowledge and techniques.These seemly simple techniques and skills which contain rich scientific knowledge just fit with “Cultural Restraint and Balance Theory”.It is worth deeply and systematically interpreting for its internal scientificity and rationality in order to master the basic principles of harmonious coexistence relationship between human and nature.Only by doing this can the relief and restoration in ecological disaster areas be realized.In conclusion,taking Muyin Town of Luodian County as a targeted fieldwork site,this paper tries to reveal that Miao's wild animal domestication is conducive to the restoration of the ecological system in stony desertification areas with the help of collection,collation and discovery for indigenous knowledge and skills.Besides,the whole ecological system in Mashan area would be restored if these indigenous knowledge and skills combine with modern science and technologies,and the local economic growth and the ecological alleviation would be driven as well.Though this practical experience only comes from Mashan area,it would be applied to the ecological system restoration in other similar areas if it succeeds.And also,it is valuable and significant to prevent the development of stony desertification in China and even throughout the world.