Aquaculture overview and development history

The residence of the Shui people is located south of the Miaoling Mountains in the southeastern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, on the upper reaches of the Duliu River and the Longjiang River. The Shui people are engaged in agriculture, mainly growing rice. Shui language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, the Zhuang-Dong language family, and the Shui language branch. The distant ancestors are a branch of the ancient "Baiyue"

The Shui people are one of the ethnic minorities in China. There are currently 345,993 people, mainly concentrated in Sandu Shui Autonomous County and Libo, Duyun, Dushan, and Kaili, Liping, Rongjiang, and Congjiang counties in the Qiannan Buyi Miao Autonomous Prefecture, Guizhou Province. A few They live scattered in the western part of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Mainly engaged in agriculture, good at growing rice and glutinous rice. The residence of the Shui people is located south of the Miaoling Mountains in the southeastern part of the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau, on the upper reaches of the Duliu River and the Longjiang River. With dense forests and picturesque mountains and rivers, it is suitable for the development of agriculture and forestry. It is the hometown of fish, rice, flowers and fruits on the Guizhou Plateau. In folk songs, the Shui people often describe their hometown as "as beautiful as phoenix feathers". The Shui people are engaged in agriculture, mainly planting rice, and "Jiuqian wine" is the traditional wine of the Shui people. The Shui people have their own calendar. The water calendar is basically the same as the lunar calendar, but August of the lunar calendar is the end of the year and September is the beginning of the year.

Shui language belongs to the Sino-Tibetan language family, the Zhuang-Dong language family, and the Shui language branch. The ancestors of the Shui people once created their own writing, called "Shui Shu". Its shape is similar to oracle bone inscriptions and bronze inscriptions. It is an ancient writing with a history of 2,000 years, but it only has more than 400 single characters, and it is mostly used for witchcraft. Activity. These texts were all transcribed by copying and there was no block printing, but the Shuishi scripts in various places are basically the same. Most people in the Shui Tribe don't know him. Chinese is commonly used in their daily lives.

The distant ancestor of the Shui tribe is a branch of the ancient "Baiyue". The Shui tribe has a historical relationship with the ancient "Luo Yue" tribe and was developed by one of them. As early as before the Qin and Han Dynasties, many tribes lived in the Lingnan region and the southeastern coast. In 214 BC, the Qin Dynasty unified Lingnan, and the Shui ancestors gradually migrated north to the border of Guizhou and Guangxi; in the Sui and Tang Dynasties, they were collectively known as "Xidong Man"; in the Tang Dynasty, In the Song Dynasty, together with the Zhuang and Dong ethnic groups, they were collectively called "獠"; in the Song Dynasty, "Fushui Prefecture" was set up there, which was commonly known as "Fushui Man"; the name of the prefecture implies that the group of people who call themselves "water" have already formed. In the mid-13th century, a large number of Han people moved here; from the 13th to the 17th century, a large number of Han soldiers were transferred here to guard and set up camps, and their descendants gradually merged with the Shui people. The name Shui Nationality was first seen in historical records of the Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, they were often called "Shui Miao Family", "Shui Family", etc. After the founding of New China, the Shui Nationality was officially named. In the modern history of China, the Shui people have written a glorious legacy Chapter. In October 1855, Pan Xinjian led the Shui people in an armed uprising and put forward the loud slogan "No food, no taxes, overthrow the Qing Dynasty and enjoy peace". He persisted in the struggle for 16 years and cooperated with the Taiping Rebellion in 1909. The Buyi, Miao and other nationalities revolted, proposed "destroying foreigners and rejuvenating Han", and carried out anti-foreign, anti-imperialist and anti-feudal struggles, which had an important impact on the country. During the new-democratic revolution, Deng Enming, an outstanding son of the Shui people, was the first member of the Communist Party of China. The only ethnic minority comrade among the representatives. During the Anti-Japanese War and the War of Liberation, the Shui people also actively participated in the struggles led by the local Chinese Communist underground party organization.