#秋日生活打卡季#
Although the rice terraces can be found all over the world, China's thousands of years of agricultural wisdom have brought the terraces to the extreme.
The famous Guangxi Longji Terraces have a maximum of more than 1,100 levels, with a maximum vertical drop of more than 860 meters.
(Guangxi Longsheng Longji Terraces)▼
From a distance, the dense curves are striking
(Guangxi Longsheng Longji Terraces)▼
The undulating and towering mountains are like a ladder to the blue sky, like a huge abstract painting between the sky and the earth. (Hongyao residents are farming in the Longji terraced fields, and the local Hongyao is named because of the red clothes they wear, and is also known as the "ethnic group in the peach blossom forest")▼
Terraced rice fields are cascading like a tide in the mountains
(Please watch horizontally, the Longji terraces and ethnic minority houses surrounded by mountains)▼
In the ancient Huizhou area where the Huangshan Mountains, Tianmu Mountains and other mountains crisscross the area, residents have reclaimed the Wuyuan Jiangling Terraced Rice Fields and Huangling Terraced Rice Fields
(Jiangxi Wuyuan Jiangling Terraces)▼
They also implement rice-rape rotation here to improve land utilization, and start planting rape after the rice harvest in autumn every year, and in March and April of the following year, the rape flowers bloom, the earth is golden, and the pink walls and tiles are added to the mist between the peaks and peaks like a paradise
(Please watch horizontally, the village and rape terraces are scattered)▼
In the southern part of Jiangxi, the Hakka people cultivate terraced fields on the mountainous land, among which the Shangbao terraced fields in Chongyi County, Ganzhou City, cover an area of more than 20,000 mu and reach a maximum altitude of 1,200 meters, making it the largest Hakka terraced rice field
(Jiangxi Chongyi Shangbao Terraces)▼
See from the air, or descend down the mountain
(Please watch it horizontally, the upper fort terraces that have not yet been planted)▼
or meandering and circling, like a giant whirlpool
(Jiangxi Chongyi Shangbao Terraces)▼
In Fujian, Youxi United Terraces, stretching for dozens of miles, covering an area of tens of thousands of acres, can be described as a one-stop, unlimited scenery. Under the backdrop of the green mountains, in the glow of the sunset, the boundless thousands of acres of terraced fields, layer by layer, engulfed in the sunset, magnificent. Layers of terraced rice fields, like a ladder in the sky, go straight to the sky; The glittering terraces shine like mirrors placed on the hillside.
(Fujian Youxi United Terraces)▼
Fujian Yongding Terraces, Tulou and layers of terraced fields constitute a magnificent landscape, majestic and magnificent, layer upon layer, scattered, melt mountain scenery and water color, pastoral scenery, constitute a natural picture.
(Terraces near the Tulou in Chuxi, Yongding, Fujian)▼
Sichuan Gaokan Terraces, the shape of the terraces is like a piece of fish scales, or like a dinosaur backbone, or like a whirlpool ripple, or like a woodcut relief, especially the ridge under the sunset, such as ink painting
(Jiangxi Chongyi Shangbao Terraces)▼
In Hanyin County, Shaanxi Province, located in the Qinba Mountains, shanty people and their descendants have reclaimed the ancient terraced fields of Fengyan. At present, the archaeological discovery of the Qinba Mountains is the largest and most well-preserved Qing Dynasty terraced rice field.
(Shaanxi Hanyin Fengyan Ancient Terraces)▼
It is located in the dividing line between the north and the south of China's natural geography, and in addition to paddy fields, a large number of dryland crops such as wheat, corn and sweet potatoes are also planted, forming the characteristics of taking into account both north and south of water and drought intercropping
(Fengyan ancient terraced fields, you can see paddy fields and dry fields at the same time)▼
In the southern part of Zhejiang, the Yunhe terraced rice fields in Yunhe County wind and loop in the valley for more than 700 levels
(Zhejiang Lishui clouds and terraces)▼
It is known as "the most beautiful terraced rice field in China". With terraced fields, sea of clouds, mountain villages, bamboo seas, streams, waterfalls, rime and other natural landscapes, it is the main wind collection base of Lishui, the hometown of Chinese photography, and is a magnificent human scenery above the clouds and mist
(Please watch horizontally, Zhejiang Lishui clouds and terraces)▼
Xinhua County, Hunan Province, where the mountains are steep, Miao, Yao, Dong, Han and other ethnic groups residents build purple magpie terraces here, the slope is as high as 25°-40°, and the maximum is more than 50°
(Hunan Xinhua Purple Magpie Terraces)▼
The Purple Magpie Terraces are the world's irrigation engineering heritage, with a total area of 80,000 acres after thousands of years, equivalent to more than 7,000 standard football fields
(Purple magpie terraces bathed in clouds and mist)▼
In the hinterland of Moon Mountain in Congjiang County, Guizhou, the Dong, Miao and Zhuang ethnic groups live here and jointly build a spectacular one
Jiabang Terraces
(Children who are out of school return home along the ridges of the Kabang rice terraces)▼
In the terraced fields, farmers stocked fish and ducks, and the rice fields provided foraging places for fish and ducks, fish and ducks preyed on insects to reduce rice diseases and pests, and fish feces and duck manure promoted the growth of rice, thus constituting an efficient "rice-fish-duck symbiosis system"
(Ducks raised in the terraces and high ridges)▼
And the most spectacular is the Hani Terraces located in Yunnan, which is a miracle of terraced farming civilization created by the people of all ethnic groups mainly by the Hani nationality by taking advantage of the special geographical climate and co-reclamation, with a grand scale and magnificent momentum.
(Illustration of the migration route of the Hani people)▼
The terraced fields cultivated by the Hani nationality in Yuanyang change with the terrain of the mountain, the large land with gentle slope is reclaimed with large fields, the small fields with steep slopes are reclaimed with small fields, and even the stone gaps under the ditch side are also cultivated, so the terraced fields are large with several acres, and the small ones are only large with dustpans, and there are often thousands of acres on a slope.
(Hani village under the forest)▼
At the 37th session of the World Heritage Committee, the Honghe Hani Rice Terraces were successfully inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the 45th World Heritage Site in China
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
The hot river valley evaporates the river water into the air and collects it into the alpine forest again, reforming the fog water, and finally circulating it again and again
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
With this wisdom, the Hani people have built terraced fields with a total area of 1 million acres
(Yunnan Honghe Hani terraced rice fields are lined up in the high mountains)▼
The terraces can reach more than 3,000 levels, with a vertical drop of more than 2,000 meters
(Aerial view of Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
The average slope is about 20° and the maximum slope is about 60°
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces built between the ridges)▼
When you look down from above, the endless terraced rice fields are like a sea of mountains, almost filling your eye sockets, like a flowing musical score
(Please watch horizontally, Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
Such as a colorful painting plate
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
Like a changing treasure mirror
(Please watch horizontally, Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
You can't help but sigh at how majestic and beautiful this is
(Please watch horizontally, immersed in the morning sun in Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
The unique "mushroom house" built in the terraces is named because it looks like a mushroom
(Yunnan Hani dwellings, the roofs still follow the traditional mushroom house style)▼
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, how to control soil erosion on the Loess Plateau has become an urgent task to be solved, and terraces, which originated in the north and grew in the south, began to expand on a large scale in the north
(Terraces on the Loess Plateau)▼
In Tongchuan, Shaanxi, locals built the Yijun Terraces
(Shaanxi Tongchuan Yijun Terraces)▼
On the Loess Plateau in Weinan, locals built the Pucheng Rice Terraces
(Terraced rice fields in Pucheng County, Weinan, Shaanxi)▼
In addition, in Linzhou, Henan, people followed the situation of the mountains and reclaimed the slate Dayuan (nǎo) terraced fields and Xijingshan terraced fields
(Xijing Mountain Terraces in Linzhou, Henan Province after snow)▼
In Yangyuan County, Hebei Province, people have cultivated dry farming terraces on the hillsides and planted local specialty crops
(Yangyuan dry farming terraces in Zhangjiakou, Hebei)▼
Each terraced field is a witness of history, is an excellent scenery, it is "open up the wilderness in the south, guard the garden field"
(The poem is from Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home: Part I",
The picture below shows the Danzhai terraces in Guizhou▼
It is "inviting neighbors, singing songs" (the poem is from Chen Bifu's "Village Family",
The picture below shows the Yuanyang Terraces in Yunnan▼
It is "outside the white water and bright fields, after the blue peak comes out of the mountain" (the poem is from Wang Wei's "New Clear Wild Hope",
The picture below shows the terraced fields of Xianju Gongyu in Taizhou, Zhejiang▼
It is "Morningside is desolate, return with the moon and lotus hoe" (the poem comes from Tao Yuanming's "Returning to the Garden and Pastoral Home: The Third",
The picture below shows the Longji Terraces of Longsheng, Guangxi▼
It is "a few idle fields, moving spring hoes across the water" (the poem comes from Zhang Yan's "Crossing the River and Clouds, Shanyin Jiuke Repeatedly Reminiscing about Xihang in Spring",
The picture below shows the Honghe Hani Terraces in Yunnan▼
It is "a water to protect the field will be green, and two mountains will be sent to the green" (the poem comes from Wang Anshi's "Two Songs of Mr. Shuhu Yin's Wall",
The picture below shows the terraced fields of Suichang Lake Mountain in Zhejiang▼
It is "the Tian family is idle for a few days, and the cultivation starts from here" (the poem is from Wei Yingwu's "Guantian Family",
The picture below shows the terraced fields in the ancient village of Xuan'en Mulong in Hubei▼
Terraces are silently changing China
(Terraces in Pingtang, Qiannan, Guizhou)▼
As part of the three-dimensional greening, it allows the green to reside
(Guizhou Bijie Dafang Luxury Ancient Town in the city flower terraces)▼
It makes the earth colorful
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
It makes the hometown like a poem
(Yunnan Honghe Hani Terraces)▼
It keeps the harvest coming year after year
(Anhui Huangshan Chengkanling Mountain Terraces)▼