WANG Mei, JIAO Yuan-mei, LIU Zhi-lin, LIU Xin, YAN Xiao-jing, ZHANG Gui-ling
China Rural Water and Hydropower. 2017, (3):
198-203.
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Water resource is a key to the stability of the Hani Rice Terraces. To adapt the high slope of mountainous environment,utilize water resource rationally,avoid disputes of water use,the Hani people created and maintained a unique woodcarving allocating management system of irrigating water (WAMSIW)during the rice farming of terraced fields. We take the WAMSIW of Yakou Ditch in Yuanyang County as the object,based on field investigations and interviews,sum up the ditch excavation,the electing way of ditch leaders and their responsibilities,and draw the spatial distribution of the water-allocating woods,quantify the number of water-allocating woods and their relationships. The results are as follows: ① The director of the ditch,who is elected by a certain way of villagers,should manage the Yakou Ditch. He can get 1326kg to 1 770 kg wet rice just harvested from rice terraces as the labor compensation to manage the Yakou Ditch. It is equivalent to the rice harvest of 3 to 4mu terraced fields which shows a good income of ditch leader. ② There are 16 water-allocating woods on the Yakou Ditch,among which 12 woods have 2 carving-gates,1 wood has 4 carving-gates and the other 3 woods have 3 carving-gates. ③ In the spatial distribution,impacted by the micro-topography,the water-allocating wood is mainly distributed in the lower part of Yakou Ditch. ④ About the length of water-allocating woods,the longest is 254 cm,the shortest is 86cm and the average is 141 cm. The speed of water flow is 39.44 cm/s,the maximum,minimum and average water flow are 387.50,12.50 and 168.75 cm3 /s respectively. If the terrain is flat,the water-allocating wood’s length is longer,and the water speed is slower,which indicate the water flow is impacted by water depth,flow speed and topography.