I was thrilled to be in Longji or Long Sheng where the most famous rice terraces of Mainland China can be found.
The people are very friendly and they have lots of stories to tell. They are rather like the Ibans and Bidayuhs of Sarawak, humble, on the quiet side and they cook lots of food for their guests which make many of us homesick for Sarawak.
There are mainly old people and very young children in the villages. The young people have all gone OUT to work (dah gong), and some as far as Nangyang!! (They know Singapore very well).
Costumes of the minority group living in Longsheng with a cute little grandson who is very cute and alert. She has brought him in a basket as she has to sell tourist souvenirs at the centre. Photograph by Sarawakiana.
Below is a photo by Daulay (Google)
Dragon Backbone’s Rice Terraces is the most amazing terrace in China! Construction of the terraces began in the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368), and continued until the early Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) when construction was completed. The Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces are the culmination of both the profound wisdom and strenuous labor of the Zhuang people.
Here we met the local people and exchange some information about the majestic system of cascading aqueducts.
We came at the right moment because April is the beginning of the rice planing season.
The people here do most things by hand and water buffalo.
Longsheng Rice Terraces (Dragon's Backbone) (simplified Chinese: 龙胜梯田; traditional Chinese: 龍勝梯田; pinyin: lóngshèng tītián), also called the Longji Rice Terraces (simplified Chinese: 龙脊梯田; traditional Chinese: 龍脊梯田; pinyin: lóngjǐ tītián), are located in Longsheng County, about 100 kilometres (62 mi) from Guilin, Guangxi, China.
The Longji terraced fields (2,000 to 2500 feet a.s.l ) received its name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the drangon.
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