Festivals in September

Planting on rice terraces

No special Festival in September
You might visit a small village, a step out of time. And recommend you stay in three different villages in Guizhou.

It likes to travel via a time machine. Many traditions are kept through centuaries and never changed.

Learn some interesting things from their daily works.

How, do farmers construct the rice terraces?
A casual glance might lead you to believe that farmers carve them into hillsides, using the dug-up rock to build the retaining walls and the excavated earth to level the terraces.Well, looks can be deceiving.

This is the building site for the new rice terrace. A good terrace site has a gentle slope, a year-round water source, and easy access to building materials. The location of some of these materials, gravel and topsoil, for example, should be uphill from the site, and the stones that will form the retaining wall should be close by.

The terrace builders lay down marking stone, so called because they will mark the boundary between the new terrace and the existing one. These stones, sometimes split from boulders manually and carried to the site by hand, will serve as the foundation for the terrace's retaining wall. Behind the stones the builders add a coarse fill.

Must-see Villages in Guizhou and Guangxi
Basha Zhaoxing Tang'An Xijiang Sanjiang Longsheng