Study Of The Solutions To The Irrigation Disputes And Village Society In Modern Southern Shaanxi

China was an agriculture founded nation since the ancient times, and agriculture was the foundation social economy. As a key procedure, irrigations influences the village society to a large extend. Therefore, the village society is an irrigation society. The irrigation disputes are common social phenomenon in Chinese village society.Because of its special geographical environment and the characteristic of social development, irrigation disputes happen frequently in modern southern Shaanxi province nowadays. How to solve the irrigation disputes there has become an important and urgent social issue. The local government, rural elites and the autonomous irrigation organization are the three subject who have play the vital role in the irrigation disputes. The three subject together form a " relation nexus of power". The local government depends on the rural elites and the autonomous irrigation organization to manage the irrigations and solve the disputes, meanwhile part of the later two's power are given by the local government.To mediate, to pay attention to the function the village rules and local conventions, as well as the successful management of the autonomous irrigation organization are the main methods to solve the irrigation disputes in Southern of Shaanxi province at present, which are of great importance for the construction of irrigation.