The paper studied the space-time distribution characteristics of soil water in Pailugou Guili watershed in Qilian Mountains forest ecology monitoring station, a state key field scientific experimental station. The results showed that soil water changed obviously with season and a hydrological year was divided into four phases: early stage of water storing, water losing, late stage of water storing and stable stage of water storing, The precipitation affected the water change in the surface soil layer in growing season while forest vegetation g...