A new English term of ‘Yudiba dam’ and its differences from check dam
XIN Zhongbao1, CAI Qiangguo2, NING Duihu3, LIU Baoyuan4, YU Xinxiao1, LEI Tingwu5, ZHANG Keli6, ZHANG Guanghui6, FANG Haiyan2, SUN Liying2, HE Jijun7
1. School of Soil and Water Conservation, Beijing Forestry University, 100083, Beijing, China; 2. Key Laboratory of Water Cycle and Related Land Surface Processes, Institute of Geographic Sciences and Natural Resources Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 100101, Beijing, China; 3. China Institute of Water Resources and Hydropower Research, International Research and Training Center on Erosion and Sedimentation, 100048, Beijing, China; 4. State Key Laboratory of Soil Erosion and Dryland Farming on the Loess Plateau, Institute of Soil and Water Conservation, Northwest A&F University, 712100, Yangling, Shaanxi, China; 5. College of Water Resources and Civil Engineering, China Agricultural University, 100083, Beijing, China; 6. School of Geography, Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, 100875, Beijing, China; 7. Internationalization Demonstration College of Geospatial Information Science and Technology, Capital Normal University, 100048, Beijing, China
Abstract：[Background] The ‘Yudiba’ is the Chinese Pinyin of an erosion control engineering measure, which has been widely implemented in the Chinese Loess Plateau and plays an important role in reducing sediment discharge and increasing cultivated land area. Although ‘check dam’ has been widely used as the English term to represent the engineering practice for erosion control and become the general English translation of ‘Yudiba’, the ‘check dam’ could not authentically highlight the soil and water conservation engineering of ‘Yudiba’ in the Loess Plateau.[Methods] Here the differences between the ‘Yudiba dam’ and the ‘check dam’ were specifically discussed in aspects of purposes, sizes and main functions. Moreover, the English translations for the ‘Yudiba’ were analyzed by comparing the connotations of the concepts, the different functions of the erosion control engineering in agricultural development and ecological improvement, as well as the simplicity when used in scientific studies.[Results] The ‘Yudiba’ is special soil and water conservation engineering measures, initiated from the Loess Plateau of China, referring to the dam structures built in various levels of gullies for the purpose of blocking sediment into cultivated land. The ‘check dam’ is a small temporary barrier, grade control structure or dam constructed across a swale, drainage ditch, or area of concentrated flow. The ‘check dam’ differed with the ‘Yudiba dam’ in purposes, sizes and main functions. Currently, various English translations were used in the literature, which were hardly accepted widely as either without representativeness or without simplicity.[Conclusions] We recommend the ‘Yudiba dam’ based on Chinese Pinyin as the formal English term in order to distinguish between the ‘Yudiba dam’ in the Loess Plateau and ‘check dam’ in other places. Thus, the ‘Yudiba dam’ is suggested to refer to the erosion control measure, which has been widely built in the Loess Plateau of China with the main functions including trapping sediment, reducing gully erosion and increasing the area of farmland in the sediment rich area.
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XIN Zhongbao, CAI Qiangguo, NING Duihu, LIU Baoyuan, YU Xinxiao, LEI Tingwu, ZHANG Keli, ZHANG Guanghui, FANG Haiyan, SUN Liying, HE Jijun. A new English term of ‘Yudiba dam’ and its differences from check dam. SSWC, 2022, 20(3): 102-108.
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