穴居、悬棺葬、免耕与生态适应

Troglodytism,Suspended-Coffin Burials,No-Tillage and Ecological Adaptation

对贵州紫云麻山地区的穴居现象、特殊的葬式和残留的免耕农作进行了详细分析,认为这些看似独立的文化特性其实都是对当地喀斯特地形的适应,并与苗族文化中的其他特征相互渗透融合,有效地回避了喀斯特生态系统的脆弱环节,因此,对于重新思考石漠化地区的治理目标具有参考价值,有利于为其他的类似生态脆弱地区的发展提供借鉴与启发。

This paper makes a detailed analysis of the troglodytism, special suspended coffin burials, and no tillage farming in Mashan, Ziyun County of Guizhou Province, and argues that these seemingly independent cultural features are actually an adaptation to the local karst topography. These features interact with the other features of the Miao Ethnic Group, thus effectively offsetting the weaknesses of the Karst ecological system. Therefore, this paper would be of referential value when setting the goal in controlling stone desertification, and would be enlightening to the development of other similarly ecologically vulnerable areas.