Language Studies Of Water Conservancy Stone Carvings

Water conservancy stone carvings are stone carriers which record language informations including hydrological features and flood control activities.It records hydrological changes,floods,hydraulic engineerings and water conservancy systems truly.The non-renewable Water stone resources decide that collecting inscriptions and rubbings,and researching systematically are important.Through the finishing explanations,this article researches the featured words systematically,examines the meanings from the language point of view,solves the developments of meaning form the lasted level and achieves researching the body languages for the first time.This article includes seven topic words which best able to reflect the features of water conservancy stone carvings words:water conservancy facilities,water conservancy tools,water conservancy officials,hydrology and disasters,climates and environments,flood control activities,and legal systems.These words in the seven aspects show the hydrology and the developments of water conservancy in ancient China preferably.This article explains the words which are not included in the current dictionaries,explained inaccurately,or having another new solution.This article groups by words according to semantic fields,and arranges in chronological order between different semantic fields and in the same semantic field.This article collates the misinterpretations and the lack of interpretations in the last chapter.Appendix 2 gives water conservancy tablets contents index,and provides references for the future researches.