The precipitation distribution in 20 year-old artificial forest of Cinnamomum camphora in Zhuzhou City, Hu'nan Province was studied. Results show that annual average rainfall of the ecosystem is 1 321.4 mm, among them the throughfall, stemflow and canopy interception rate make up 72.5 %, 1.3 % and 26.2 % of the annual precipitation, respectively. In a single rainfall, the less the rain, the higher the interception rate, and the less the rainfall inte...