春秋时期,楚国令尹孙叔敖在苟陂县一带修建了一条南北水渠,以灌溉沿渠的万顷农田。可是一到天旱时,沿堤的农民就在渠水退去的堤岸边种庄稼,有的甚至还把农作物种到堤中央。等到雨水一多,渠水上升,这些农民为了保住庄稼和渠田,便偷偷在堤坝上挖开口子放水。这样的情况越来越严 During the Spring and Autumn Period, Sun Shou-ao, governor of the Chu State, built a north-south ditch in Gou Jie County to irrigate 10,000 hectares of farmland along the canal. However, as soon as the drought was over, the peasants along the dikes planted crops along the embankments where the canal water receded, and some even planted the crops to the center of the dike. Until the rain more than one, rising canal water, these peasants in order to keep crops and canal fields, they secretly dig ditches on the ditch water. This situation is getting more and more strict