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"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

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Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture

South Stage of Mt. Lai

More than 1300 years ago

The ancestors of the Hani people migrated here from the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau

Together with other ethnic minorities living here

With both hands and an iron plow

On the slopes from the foot of the mountain to more than 2,000 meters above sea level

Will be steep barren mountains and mountains

Create a beautiful and harmonious green home

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

The Hani people generally choose

The terraces are cultivated on the slopes of the hills with dense forests at the top of the mountain

The highest vertical span of Hani Terraces is about 1,500 meters

The slope is up to 75 degrees

The smallest plot is only 1 square meter

Terraced rice paddies cascade up the steep hills

Up to 3700 floors

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Vertical layout of forests, villages, and terraces

Then the water system runs through

This way of using water resources

It is known as the "four-element isomorphism" cyclic system

In this system

The flow of water is "blood", and the ditch is "blood vessel"

There is a lack of water delivery

The entire system will not function properly

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Whenever encountering a severe blockage

Volunteer Villagers

In this one and the same

circular ecosystems

Everyone's interests and responsibilities

Tightly bound together

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Baohua Town at an altitude of 1,860 meters

An area of more than 120 square kilometers

There are 6 village committees and 81 villager groups

The Hani and Yi ethnic groups have lived here for generations

Fu Xianming, an old man of the Yi nationality, is cleaning his cowshed

This cowshed has been idle for nearly half a year

Today will welcome its owner

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

A few years ago

Fu Xianming and a Hani family in a neighboring village

Co-financed the purchase of a farming cow

The two agreed, based on the harvest of the previous one

with the latter family of cultivation is limited

According to the rotation of agricultural hours, each family takes care of it for half a year

This is a partnership formed by sharing farming cattle

Locally known as the "Cow Family"

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Solidarity and mutual assistance among fraternal peoples

Not only together to create the ancient and brilliant

Mountain agricultural civilization

Let this wisdom of saving resources

It has been passed down from generation to generation and continues to this day

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Cooperation between different ethnic groups

It has also profoundly changed the topography of the Ailao Mountains

The Hani Terraces are distributed in the southern section of Ailao Mountain

Deep cut in the river valley

Within a vertical span of 1,500 meters

Layers of terraced rice fields climb up the stairs, and they are scattered

It's like a palette set in the earth

Among them is an ancient species

Terraced red rice

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

For more than ten years, Su Zhengliang and team members

It has been selected and bred

"Red Rice" and "Hongyou" series of red rice varieties

It not only retains the original rich nutrition of red rice

It also improves the taste and increases the yield

It has greatly enhanced the peasants' enthusiasm for growing grain

Ancient red rice on thousand-year-old terraces

Vibrant

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

End of August

The rice in the terraces is tinged with bayberry

Ears of rice that have just finished filling

Bent the rice stalks

The air is filled with the scent of rice

The Hani people here

The traditional New Rice Festival is coming

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

The sky was just dawning

Zhang Niusi came to his own rice field

Carefully selected

She cut nine ears of rice

The new ears of rice that are about to ripen are long and large

The joy of the harvest

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

The harvested ears of rice are rubbed off the rice grains

Bake over medium heat and pop into popcorn

It is then steamed with aged rice

In the thick aroma

New rice and old rice complete the replacement of the old and the new

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

Valley boat, shallow flat bottom

Resistance can be mitigated

Convenient for towing through narrow, muddy rice fields

And the baffles on both sides

It can prevent rice splashing when threshing

A millennia harvest approach

It embodies the wisdom of the Hani people

It is also they who work in the mountains

The best example of adapting to nature

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

The harvest in the village of Kekou has just begun

Dongpo Village, about 300 meters below sea level

The drying of the paddy is nearing completion

As the inheritor of Hani's ancient songs

Between work, Li Youliang always sings a few words

It is also an important means of fighting forgetting

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

The farming life of the Hani people

It has lasted for thousands of years in the cycle of the four seasons

Passing on knowledge by word and deed

It has also been carried out for thousands of years

It has become a unique cultural phenomenon of this nation

Quaint and far-reaching singing

It carries the wisdom and culture of the Hani people

A complete reproduction of the Hani people

The process of production, life and civilization changes

"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

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"Exploring Civilization in Farming": How to turn barren mountains into wonders of agricultural civilization?

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