How beautiful are the terraces in China from the satellite perspective?

Seen from the satellite, the terraced fields in China are beautiful. These contour lines engraved on the earth show the farming wisdom of China for thousands of years. They not only build amazing and magnificent scenery, but also contain precious grains under green mountains and green waters.

Terrace has good ventilation and light transmission conditions, which is beneficial to crop growth and nutrient accumulation. According to the different slopes of fields, there are horizontal terraces, inclined terraces and compound terraces.

Terrace history

Terraces began to exist in China as early as the Qin and Han Dynasties. Planting rice requires a large area of ponds, but the southeastern provinces of China are hilly and lack plain terrain suitable for planting rice. In order to solve the food problem, farmers who immigrated here built terraces and used dams to store water, which made it possible to grow rice in a large area in hilly areas and solved the local food problem.

However, planting terraced fields consumes much more manpower than plain, and the yield is not superior, and the vegetation in hilly areas is seriously damaged, so this farming method is gradually eliminated, and now it is only a tourist attraction.