挖掘与传承：全球重要农业文化遗产兴化垛田的文化内涵探析
Excavating and Inheriting: Study on Cultural Connotation of GIAHS Project Xinghua Duotian

文化是农业遗产之根，挖掘和整理这些文化内涵，有利于丰富民众精神生活，提升生活品味，从而契合全球重要农业文化保护的宗旨。垛田是江苏省中部地区沼泽地带独有的一种土地利用方式与农业景观，2013、2014年先后被遴选为中国重要农业文化遗产和全球重要农业文化遗产。垛田地貌特殊，景色秀丽，不仅出产丰饶，而且孕育了鲜明丰富的地域特色文化，主要包括永不屈服的治水精神、天人合一的农耕体系、特色鲜明的地域文化和清淡自然的垛田美食等多个方面。兴化垛田的保护和传承一定要坚持文化优先，在深入调研挖掘的基础上作战略谋划，才能使其发挥更大的价值。
Culture is the basement to agricultural heritage. Excavating and sorting out the culture from agricultural heritage will benefit enriching people’s spiritual life and improve the quality of our life, thus we should better protect the heritage and enable it to play a greater value. Duotian (Stacking Farmland) is a unique land utilization type and also agricultural landscape to marshland of the central region of Jiangsu province. In 2013 and 2014 it was successively selected as China’s important agricultural cultural heritage and globally important agricultural cultural heritage. Duotian is rich and fertile, where there is special physiognomy and beautiful scenery. The cultivation of Duotian generated distinctive regional characteristic of culture, mainly including the spirit of never yielding in water control, the farming system of heaven-man unity, and the inclusive regional culture and light diet culture. The culture should be given priority to in preserving and inheriting of Xinghua Duotian, and a strategic plan should be made on the basis of deep investigation and excavating.