兴建公共水利工程,是包括中国在内的古代东方社会国家管理经济的带有决定性意义的重要内容和重要职能。夏、商、西周时期人们已经掌握了原始的水利灌溉技术,构成了蓄、引、灌、排的初级农田水利体系。在此基础上,春秋战国时期先后出现了一些著名的大型农田水利建设工程,如最大 The construction of public water conservancy projects is a decisive important content and an important function for the management economy of ancient eastern countries including China. During the Xia, Shang and Western Zhou dynasties, people had mastered the original water conservancy irrigation technology and formed the primary farmland water conservancy system for storage, drainage, irrigation, and drainage. On this basis, during the Spring, Autumn and Warring States period, there emerged some famous large-scale farmland water conservancy construction projects, such as the largest