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The Longsheng Rice Terraces ("Dragon's Victory") (), also called the Longji Rice Terraces ("Dragon's Backbone") (), are located in the town of
1 da zhai zhuang people longsheng rice terrace 2011.jpg, Dazhai rice terrace
1 longsheng ping an rice terrace 2011.jpg, Ping'an as seen from ''Jiu long wu hu''
Longji_terrace_-_03.JPG, Longsheng rice terrace
Longji Terraces.JPG, Longji terraces
Longsheng Rice Terraces November 2017 014.jpg, In November
Longji
Longji () is a town in Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guangxi, China. As of the 2018 census it had a population of 16,000 and an area of . Longji is known worldwide for Longsheng Rice Terraces.
Administrative division
As of 201 ...
in Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County
Longsheng Various Nationalities (Gezu) Autonomous County ( zh, s=龙胜各族自治县, t=龍勝各族自治縣, p=Lóngshèng Gèzú Zìzhìxiàn; za, Lungzhingz Gakcuz Swciyen; usually referred to as "Longsheng County" ) is a county in the nort ...
, about from Guilin
Guilin ( Standard Zhuang: ''Gveilinz''; alternatively romanized as Kweilin) is a prefecture-level city in the northeast of China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It is situated on the west bank of the Li River and borders Hunan to the nort ...
, China
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.
The terraced fields are built along the slope winding from the riverside up to the mountain top, between above sea level. A coiling terrace line that starts from the mountain foot up to the mountain top divides the mountain into layers of water in spring, layers of green rice
Rice is the seed of the grass species ''Oryza sativa'' (Asian rice) or less commonly ''Oryza glaberrima
''Oryza glaberrima'', commonly known as African rice, is one of the two domesticated rice species. It was first domesticated and grown i ...
shoots in summer, layers of rice in fall, and layers of frost in winter. The terraced fields were mostly built about 650 years ago.
Longji (Dragon's Backbone) Terraced Rice Fields received their name because the rice terraces resemble a dragon
A dragon is a reptilian legendary creature that appears in the folklore of many cultures worldwide. Beliefs about dragons vary considerably through regions, but dragons in western cultures since the High Middle Ages have often been depicted as ...
's scales, while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon.
In early June, water is pumped over the rice paddies
A paddy field is a flooded field of arable land used for growing semiaquatic crops, most notably rice and taro. It originates from the Neolithic rice-farming cultures of the Yangtze River basin in southern China, associated with pre-Aust ...
, and young plants are transferred to the main terraces.
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* * Geography of Guilin Tourist attractions in Guilin Agricultural terraces Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County {{Horticulture-stub