The People Of Sculpture Mountains: Hani People

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This is a magnificent line drawn in the long distance between the earth and the mountains. This is the mountains that have been sculpted.

In the course of thousands of years of active labor, care and polishing, terraced fields have become a great art.

It is a sublime sublime with the colors of the four seasons, and the lines, rhythms and rhythms that it presents are soaked.

The Hani nationality is a cross ethnic, Vietnamese, Burmese and Thai people living in Southwest China. It is a nation with a long history, rich culture and optimism.

There are many branches of Hani's family. There are many self proclaimed, so-called and historical names. After liberation, the name "Hani" is the most common name.

Hani language belongs to the Yi language branch of the Tibetan and Burmese languages.

Most of the Hani people in China live in the middle area of Honghe and Lancang rivers in southern Yunnan, and the vast mountain area between Ailao Mountain and mount Wu mountain, that is, the typical subtropical area of Yunnan mountain.

It is a real mountain world, a continuous mountain, like a frozen sea, with peaks and waves rising and falling, reaching the horizon.

Because of the river crossing and the tributaries cutting, the mountains and valleys are deep and ravines are interlaced. Almost every mountain, from the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, is arranged in a tropical, temperate and frigid climate. The biotic community also distributes according to the climate, forming a benign natural ecosystem with a large river basin and small watershed interlaced together.

The local folk proverb says: "a mountain divides into four seasons, separated by different days".

It is a real land of cloud and sea. During the winter and spring season, the vast sea of clouds covered the towering mountains and flooded the jungle rivers.

The local folk song sang, "the sky and the earth are far away, the rain wire connects them; the mountains and mountains are far away, but the clouds and seas connect them together."

It is a real rainy day. Because of its low latitude and close to the sea, the Pacific monsoon and the India Ocean monsoon are the first to bear the brunt of the north. It makes the sea become a drizzling rain, nourishing mountains for years, and developing trickle streams with forest vegetation.

So in Ailao Mountain, there is a wonder of how high the mountain is and how high the water is.

This is the home of Hani people who has gone through many hardships to find and settle forever.

The ancient history of Hani is actually a history of migration.

In the long and tortuous migration process, the Hani people have gone through a long and extremely difficult and dangerous journey, experiencing the invasion of the complex climate of the southwest plateau, experiencing the devastation of all kinds of diseases and the threat of war, experiencing endless humiliation. And they have gone through the whole process from the primitive society to the feudal lords society, and have completed the pformation from nomadic farming, farming to settling agriculture.

After the founding of new China, it entered the socialist society.

After entering and settling in Ailao Mountain and the boundless mountain area of the subtropical zone of Yunnan, facing the towering mountains, bottomless deep valleys and dense virgin forests, the Hani people once despaired, calling themselves "the loneliest nation in the world".

In order to make the subtropical mountain into the permanent residence of Pingba, the Hani people kept forests in cold mountains, built villages in warm Zhongshan, and built terraced fields in the hot lower half of the mountain, forming a three-dimensional living space pattern of forests, villages and terraces.

This is a great imagination and excellent labor practice.

The Hani people said, "we have the power to make endless efforts like cows, and do not fear mud like dogs."

In this way, Hani spent all their efforts to create a terraced field wonders that are rare in the world.

The agriculture of the Hani terraced fields is the agricultural miracle of the subtropical mountain area in Yunnan, China.

As a field system and a specific agricultural form, terraced fields are a benign agricultural ecosystem built on the Ailao Mountain natural ecosystem.

As the core of national traditional culture, Hani's political system, economic change, cultural form, and even its living culture, catering culture, dress culture, literature and art and other cultural units are all from the cultural elements.

Terraced fields condense Hani's civilization for thousands of years.

It is a symbol of Hani's life and spirit, a condensation of history and a container of culture.

Today, all material culture and spiritual culture of Hani nationality's new rural construction, harmonious cultural construction and well off society construction are still built on this ancient and huge material entity.

Yunnan will declare the world of Hani terraced fields in the new century