“水”字,在中国最早的文字——殷墟甲骨文上就有了。但甲骨文中是否有“水利”二字,至今未见有出土文物证明。“水利”见书者,细检古籍,《管子·禁藏》载有“渔人之人海,海深万仞,就彼逆流,乘危百里,宿夜不出者,利在水也”;《吕氏春秋·孝行览·慎人》记有“舜之耕渔,其贤不肖与为天子同,其未遇时也,以其徒属掘地财,取水利,编蒲苇,结罘网,手足胼胝不居,然后免于冻馁之患”。这里的“利在水”或“取水利”,皆泛指捕鱼、编织、捕鸟等个人或者少数人就可以做的事儿,当然也算是水利的内容之一,但它终究不能和“自由人 “Water” word, in China’s earliest words - there are on the Oracle oracle. However, whether there is a “water conservancy” word in Oracle, so far no evidence of unearthed relics. “Water” book reader, fine check the ancient books, “pipe banned possession” contains “the sea of ​​fishermen, the depths of seaweed, he flows counter-current, by dangerous Baili, no night out, Lee also in water ”;“ Lu’s Spring and Autumn Period, filial piety, ”a“ remember ”Shun farming farming, its unscrupulous and the emperor with the same time, the case did not encounter, with its appropriation of digging money, water conservancy, Results 罘 network, hand, foot calluses do not settle, and then free from frostbite victims. “ Here ”water in the water“ or ”water extraction" all refer to things that can be done by individuals or minority such as fishing, weaving and bird-catching birds and certainly one of the contents of water conservancy. However, it can not, after all, Free man