英文摘要:The water resource is the foundation of the agricultural development. The cultivation, management, and the maintaining of the canals are highly related to the residences’ everyday lives. To survive, human beings change the natural environment to a suitable inhabitance place, but artificially change the surroundings as well. To produce agriculture the characteristics canal culture has been developed. As time goes by, influenced by the decline of agricultural development, the canal has lost its irrigation function and besides its hidden cultural value has fade away. Recently, the country seeing in rural area has been a fashion. The canals in the countryside undertook the production part have changed to a leisure space which combined the handmade and the natural scenery and became the rural countries’ special attraction. Pa-Pao-Chun is one of the three old canals in Taiwan. Since the Chin dynasty the Pa-Pao-Chun excavation had been through lots of changes. The source was contiguous to the Cho Shui River. The long interaction with the local groups has built a rich canals culture there. The article used the source of the Pa-Pao-Chun which covered Ershuei Shiang in Changhua County and Mingjian Shiang in Nantou County as a example. I used the cultural landscape perspective and the visual, cognitive, and experienced points of view to analyze the cultural landscape of canals. The research methods I used are field study, collecting related documents, photographing and mapping records, interviewing the residences in the Cho Shui River and the Pa-Pao-Chun and collecting their interaction experiences. I tried to analyze the canal landscapes’ missing, continuing, and the converting cultural values. According to the above, I will draw the Pa-Pao-Chun source’ cultural landscape pictures and suggest the managing way of the cultural landscape of canals. The study results showed that there were four time periods of the Pa-Pao-Chun’s landscape of canals. First is the period of cultivation during 1719-1901; second is the period of agricultural modernization during 1901-1987; third is the period of agricultural decline during 1987-2002; fourth is the period of countryside sightseeing and community development. Before the age of agricultural modernization, the space change and the natural conditions of the canals and the farmland are highly related and constrained by the threat of natural power. Human activities are less related to the change of landscapes and this stage was the foundation period of the canals’ culture. The landscape of canals has been through the modernization period after the 18th century. From the ups to the downs of agricultural economy and to the rise of the countryside sightseeing, human’s economic activities have been the main factor of the influenced change of the landscape of canals. This study realized that the reconstruction of the Ershuei Shiang’s particular sense of place should depend on the traditional elements. During the process of rebuilding traditional culture should combine the present residences’ living experience and give the traditional elements new value and meaning. To reach the goal of combining the landscape and the residences’ experience by building the substance environment and conveying the cultural meaning, the residences should recall the past memory, create a new experience and promote the pride and identification of their own culture.