清代台湾地区农田水利纠纷探析

On the Dispute of farmland water conservancy in Taiwan during the Qing Dynasty

清代台湾的农田水利开发,由于国家统治力量相对薄弱,因而政府介入较少。官府权力的发动,多是在担心水利纠纷会影响社会稳定的情况下才出示晓谕,或给圳照、戳记来对民间的水利秩序给予支持和保证。为避免不必要的冲突和进行农田水利开发协作,台湾人民开发埤圳只能相互帮助,结成水利组织,并以民间规约为主调整相互之间的关系,解决农田水利纠纷。台湾的农田水利法制在此期间初具规模,有序用水渐成习惯。

During the Qing Dynasty, little governmental intervention was involved in the de- velopment of Taiwan farmland water conservancy as the ruling power of the state was rela- I r-：~ o,＋ y.~ } tively weak. Generally, the government power was exercised only when a dispute regarding water conservancy affects social stability to show unto or to give relevant license or stamp to support and safeguard the order of water conservancy. Taiwan Residents people helped each other formed a special organization for water conservancy. They regulated their relationship and resolving the dispute of farmland water conservancy by civil conventions. In the period, the legal system of Taiwan farmland water conservancy had begun to take shape, orderly water had also gotten into a habit.