Honghe Hani Rice Terraces
The Honghe Hani rice terraces was included by UNESCO in the list of world cultural heritage objects.
This means that China currently has 45 World Heritage properties. This is second only to Italy with a number of 48 World Heritage properties.
On 22 June 2013, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO at the 37th World Heritage Conference in the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh decided to recognize the Honghe Hani rice terraces in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan as a World Heritage Site. Wording: "The people of Hani has formed from the dense forest an exceptionally complex system of irrigated rice terraces ".
In Yunnan the Resterrassen are as protected areas in the National Park of "Three Parallel Rivers " on the World Heritage List since 2003.
Location
The located in the southern Chinese province of Yunnan Honghe Hani located ligand - rice terraces have a history of over 1300 years. To date, the inhabitants still build on the terraces rice.
The rice terraces are spread all over the southern shore of Hong He, for example, in the districts of Yuanyang, Lüchun and Jinping Autonomous Prefecture of Honghe Hani and Yi the. Especially the rice terraces in Yuanyang are with an area of 12.6 thousand hectares (about 126 square kilometers, Berlin: 883 square kilometers ) of the famous part. Because Yuanyang has a rich source, humid air and changing fog, here always makes a living landscape.
Rice terrace cultivation
2000 years ago, the ancestors of Hani moved to after Honghe in Yunnan and put there the first rice terrace on the mountainside. After that, step by step, water channels were built. Through the channel system people use the natural rainwater from the high mountains for irrigation.
They also breed in the rice terraces fish. The rice terraces offer the fish plenty of water and food, for example, water plants or insects. At the same time water rice natural fertilizer receives from the fish.
Generations of the Hani nationality working on the rice terraces and always strive for a balance between nature and humans.
Yuanyang rice terraces
The rice terraces in Yunnan Province are spread over the southern bank of the Honghe River ( circle Yuan Yang, Jinping, Lüchun and Honghe ). Here the Yuanyang rice terraces are more concentric.
The Yuanyang rice terraces Yuanyang is located in the county where one sees everywhere steep mountains and high mountains. The rice terraces are on the about 2000 meters high mountain slopes, at 15 - created 75 degree incline, with retaining walls. The gradation of the rice terraces can be over 3700.
The Yuanyang rice terraces consist of three main landscape zone ( Duoyishu rice terraces, Laohuzui rice terraces, Bada Rice Terraces and a few rice terraces in miniature.
Duoyishu rice terraces
The Duoyishu rice terraces are located 55 km away from Yuanyang. This landscape zone consists of five villages of the Hani Nationality and four villages of the Yi nationality including the rice terraces with an area of 400 hectares, or 16,000 acres of virgin forest.
Laohuzui rice terraces
The Laohuzui rice terraces are called Tiger - foot- rice terraces because they like the mouth of a tiger look. They are 50 kilometers south of Yuangyang. Because of the steep relief and the massive rice terraces landscape Laohuzui are called "sculpture of the earth."
At sunset, the sun shines on the rice terraces, due to the refraction of rays show the rice terraces of different colors.
Bada Rice Terraces
The Bada Rice Terraces have an area of 950 hectares.