2001年5月下旬，麦黄风暖，渭北平原上一片繁忙景象。我从西安乘长途班车去寻访蒲城一个名叫“许家庄”的村庄生产土布的情况。一许家庄在蒲城县西南一个距县城20公里的地方，隶属甜水井乡。后来问起地名的来由时，村人们苦笑地说，甜水井亦称泉水井，在古时这里曾是湖底，于是 In late May 2001, wheat warmth, a busy scene on the Weibei Plain. I took a long-distance bus from Xi’an to visit a village in Pucheng called “Xujiazhuang” to produce soil and cloth. A Xujiazhuang Pucheng County, southwest of a county 20 kilometers from the place, under the sweet Shui Township. Later, when asked about the place names, the villagers said with a wry smile, also known as sweet wells wells, in ancient times where the lake was once, then