本文揭示了现代中国收回主权运动史上鲜为人知的一幕。 20年代初期，国人的引水权观念成长起来，开始尝试收回晚清时期丧失于外人之手的引水权。但与主权观念成长不同步的是，权利的主体却仍然缺席。二者的断裂，决定了这次尝试的失败。 This article reveals the little-known history of the modern Chinese recovery of the sovereignty movement. In the early 1920s, people’s concept of water diversion grew up and began to try to recover the water diversion rights lost to outsiders in the late Qing period. However, in contradistinction to the idea of ​​sovereignty, the subject of rights is still absent. The rupture of the two decided the failure of this attempt.