中国古代治水理念对现代治水的启示

Inspiration of ancient Chinese water control thinking for modern water control

中国古人治水历史悠久,创造了许多治水奇迹,虽历经数千年,一些水利工程仍在发挥作用,其考虑问题之周全、工程设计之巧妙,无不令世界瞩目。在前人研究基础上,对古代治水的发展过程进行了总结,对古代治水理念与朴素辩证思想进行了归纳。通过总结分析认识到,古人的成功源于在治水过程中能深刻领会到水的自然规律,以天人合一、阳阳五行等传统哲学作为指导思想,并遵循顺之水性、无为而治等治水理念。在现代治水中,应当学习和吸取古代哲学思想与传统治水理念,并与西方现代文明有机结合,在改造自然的同时,做到人与自然的完美结合,实现江河万古长流、人类社会永续发展。

The ancient Chinese water control has a long history,which created many wonders in water control; many ancient projects has been used for several thousand years, some of which are still in operation now. The thoughtful and ingenious design is extremely remarkable. Based on the previous research, the developing process and the thinking of ancient water control are summarized; the concept and the simple dialectical thoughts are generalized. The success lies in their understanding of natural rules of water. They were instructed by many traditional philosophies such as the harmony between human and nature and the Chinese Yin - Yang and five elements theory, and they followed the thoughts of being reconciled with the water and governing without interfering, and so on. In modern water controlling, we should learn from the philosophy and traditional water control thinking of the ancient Chinese, and combine it with the western modern civilization. The long lasting flow of rivers and sustainable development of the human society will be realized if the harmony between human and nature can be maintained.