水文化是人类在长期的水事活动中，形成的与用水、节水、爱水、护水、崇水相关的精神形态文化，具有厚重性、多样性和主导性特征，不仅是我国水利行业的特色文化，而且还是我国传统文化的重要组成部分。自1988年10月淮河流域四省治淮宣传工作会议至今，我国学术界对水文化研究取得了丰硕成果。结合水文化研究的新动态、新形态、新业态，本文通过全面、系统地收集水文化最新研究成果，从水文化理论研究进展、水文化遗产研究进展、水文化传播研究进展、地域水文化研究进展等方面，对其进行了择要论述，在此基础上，从研究对象、研究范围、研究方向、研究手段等方面，对水文化研究进行展望，以期推进水文化传承创新，不断把中华优秀传统水文化研究持续推向前进。

Water culture is a kind of spiritual culture related to using water, saving water, protection of water and worship water, which is characterized by thickness, diversity and dominancy. It is not only the characteristics of culture water in the conservancy industry, but also an important part of our traditional culture in China. Our academic circles have reaped rich achievements in the research on water culture since propaganda working conference of harness of the Huai River in October of 1988. Combined with new trends, new morphology and new form, through a comprehensive, systematic collection of the latest literatures on the water culture, the article discussed the research progress in theory of water culture, heritage of water culture, propagation of water culture and regional water culture and prospected the research object, research range, research direction and research means of water culture on this basis, in order to promote and deepen it and push excellent traditional culture of the Chinese research forward.

国家社科基金重点项目（14AZD073）