Jialongji East Terraces

Yuan dynasty poet Wang Zhen wrote "the world's field system is divided into more than one, there is a field outside the world who name the title" of the poem to praise the hard work of the Hani people and the creation of excellence, the emperor of the Ming dynasty heard of Hani terraces of the feat, gladly given to the Hani people, "the mountains of the divine sculptor hand" reputation. Hani terraces is not only a piece of land, but also the Hani people from ancient times to the present, generation after generation of mountain carvers in the lofty mountains and ridges of the earth carefully crafted "works of art" and the waves of the broad national epic.

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.