凿池而饮:明清时期北方地区的民生用水

本文利用地方志,田野调查收集的水池碑刻、口述资料,对明清时期北方地区的水池进行了研究,认为开凿水池集蓄自然降氷是解决缺水地区民生用水困难的有效形式,水池人文景观构成北方行聚落显著的外部特征。治所和乡村在应对缺水环境时存在一定的制度差异性,传统政府职能在解决民生用水问题方面有其局限性。在水资源缺乏的环境下,用水秩序构成北方乡村社会秩序一个重要方面。

Pools and Drinks: Northern Peoples Drinking in Ming and Qing Dynasties

Using gazetters,stelae from pools and oral matreials collected during field research ,this eassy examines the pools in North China since Ming and Qing Dynasties,it also points out that digging pool and saving up rainwater is an effective form to solution water shortage in some regions where water resources are difficulty,pools are a remarkable spectacle in northern settlement.The rules are defferent between local government and village ,the function of traditional government has it’s limitations in solution the living water.The order of using water is an important part in Northern rural society system.