兴修黄土区梯田的当代意义——甘肃省庄浪县近70年改土实践评说

The meaning of terracing in loess region for the time: a narrative of 50 years-long terracing practice in Zhuanglang County, Gansu Province,and comments

六盘山西南侧地高坡陡、黄土覆盖的庄浪县,组织当地群众修建梯田,至今已超过半个世纪,全县农田梯田化程度达到91.74%(1997年底水平),创造出本地民众所期盼的生产和生活环境。庄浪县兴修梯田的当代意义在于积极地改善家园环境,因地制宜地开展改土实践活动,走出一条黄土山区社会发展之路,应该得到外界的应有尊重和理解。

In Zhuanglang, a county in Gansu Province and located on the high and steep loess southwest slopes of the Liupan Mountains,thousands of locals had been organized to work hard to build terraced field for more than a half century, and nearly 91.74% of their field terraced(in 1997). An environment expected by locals for their production and living better had been created and become an example of agricutural production and social development for the whole China. In the article, I describe their intention when the local government organized peasants to do the work, ways of organisation and successive steps, as well as the role of the terraced field to their living, and different aspects of the relations between human and nature on the loess land. The approach I take to analyze it is relating theory to practices, and my judgement is that the meaning of terracing for the time was to make their habitat better. They have been doing so according to local conditions and found a path to social development for the mountaineous loess area, and should be understood and appreciated.