Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

黔南布依族苗族自治州

黔南州的荔波县，小七孔展现水潭、溪流与瀑布；茂兰呈现另一种喀斯特森林生态。在三都水族自治县，水书和端节体现书写、口传与节庆历法。

黔南布依族苗族自治州

At Xiaoqikong, a bridge, cascades, pools and a forested channel reveal how water threads through a limestone landscape.

In Maolan, pockets of soil in fissured limestone support a forest whose growth is closely tied to small differences in slope and rock form.

Shuishu specialist manuscripts and the staggered Duanjie festival show two distinct ways Shui knowledge is used and shared.

The Libo inheritor Pan Laoping learned Shuishu within his family, then helped annotate manuscripts and teach another generation of specialists.

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

七孔石桥为景区命名，水潭、跌水、河道与树根则共同呈现水与石灰岩的关系。

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

在茂兰，森林与裸露石灰岩属于同一个生长系统，薄土、裂隙和地下水路共同作用。

Qiannan Buyei and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

水书知识通过手抄本与口传教学延续，端节则连接历法、祭祖和端坡赛马。

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The vine-covered seven-arch bridge at Xiaoqikong stands above a green pool in this photograph taken in October 2010.Nyx Ning · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
A tree stands at the crest of a densely vegetated hill in Maolan, Libo. Photographed in May 2011.Nyx Ning · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
A nineteenth-century Shuishu manuscript from the Shui archives in Libo, digitised by the Endangered Archives Programme.Unknown author; digitised by the Endangered Archives Programme · Public domain Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.
A reproduced page of Shuishu writing, shown for script comparison.Unknown author; Wikimedia Commons facsimile · Public domain Photo source ↗ Orientation normalised, proportionally resized and encoded as WebP; no crop or retouch.