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Zhuji Shadoof
Profile; ?>The Zhuji Shadoof Irrigation System is located at Quanfan and Zhaojia villages, Zhaojia Town, Zhuji City, Zhejiang Province and on the alluvial basin of Huangtan Brook at the foot of the main peak of Zhoumagang of Kuaiji Mountain with an average annual rainfall of 1462mm. The soils are primarily sandy soils and there are rich groundwater resources which are buried at a depth of only 1-3m in the drought period and within 1m in the rainy season. In the last hundreds of years, digging well and carrying water with Jiegao, or shadoof have become a main mode of irrigation for the people of the two villages. The Irrigation System of Zhuji is a living fossil of the ancient water-carrying device of shadoof.
Jiegao, or shadoof is one of the most time-honored water-carrying devices and it was extensively applied in ancient Babylon and Egypt before the 15th B.C. In 400 B.C., Zhuangzi already recorded Jigao as a tool for well irrigation:
HIGHLIGHTS
Country: China
Province: Zhejiang
Latitude : 29 Longitude : 120
Built: Earlier than 17th Century A.D.
River: Huangtan Brook
Sub-Basin: Puyang
Irrigated Area: 27 ha
67th IEC Meeting, Chiang Mai, Thailand, 2016
