Kanda-no-jo

Mami Man" in Hani language. God's mountains and beautiful water is the cornerstone of 10,000 acres of terraced rice paddies in Samaba, Hani ancestors migrated from Noma Amei to this place after the beginning of the rice paddies. Everyone, with the direction of my finger to see, the far side of the disk like that field, according to legend, is the God sent Hercules Hama to Samaba reclaimed the first field, called the God field "the first corner of the field", it is the heart of ten thousand acres of terraced rice paddies. Legend has it that one day, Samaba suddenly lightning and thunder, heavy rain, only to see the sky from Amu Mountain until Samaba opened a huge sky road, a Hercules fell from the sky to Samaba, he year after year day and night to open up the mountain to create a field. Hama a meal to eat three buckets of rice, clothes are four buffalo sewn large leather jacket, rain hat is more than three feet wide piece of boulder, "the first corner of the field" is the first terraces he dug out. Since then, the Hani people vigorously open up the mountains to make fields, golden rice piled up in every household, living a life of abundance of food and clothing, people seem to return to the ancient homeland of "Noma Amei" good life!

mussel-making

Beginning in the 6th century AD, Hani ancestors from the Tibetan Plateau all the way to the south, and finally arrived in Yunnan's Mourning Mountains area settled life, slash-and-burn farming; thus, Hani ancestors from nomadic life into the farming era. Ming Hongwu years, Honghe County, six tribes within the common advocacy of open mountains and fields, opened the red river reclamation terraces of the prelude: especially Samaba terraces where the left can tribal chief Wu frog quite outstanding achievements we see, the high hoe, is known as "the first person to make the field" Wu Beng quite. Samaba terraces large-scale reclamation and molding can be attributed to the Hani chief Wu Beng Po. He led the way, digging mountains to make fields, water ditches. Hongwu fifteen years (1383), Muying into Yunnan, the Ming army into the meandering Sa, ordering the ministries outside the river to throw arms.