清末库尔楚兴修河渠碑补释

A Study of stele“the Monuments of Building canals in Kurchu in the late Qing Dynasty”

19世纪70年代,清朝收复新疆。为了恢复农业生产,维护地方秩序,清政府修浚河渠,广兴屯垦。光绪五年(1879),库尔楚各族军民合力兴修河渠以灌溉附近农田,并于次年立木碑详记库尔楚修渠之事。作为民族地区极具史料价值的碑刻,木碑碑文如实反映了清代新疆各族共同开发农田水利的状况,对于研究清代多民族大一统格局下新疆水利治理史具有重要学术价值。

In the 1870s,the Qing Dynasty recovered the ruling of Xinjiang.In order to restore agricultural production and local order,the Qing government dredged up rivers and canals,developed garrison farmlands.In 1879,the soldiers and all ethnic groups in Kurchu(Chinese:Ku-er-chu)worked together to construct canals for irrigating farmland.In the following year,this construction was recorded detailly on a wooden monument tablet.This inscriptions from ethnic territories contains great historical values which reflected the joint effort of irrigation and agriculture by all ethnic groups in Xinjiang during the Qing era.