Let’s enjoy the Ming’ao terraced fields
Yongjia has many mountainous areas and is known as "eight mountains, one water and one farmland". Deep in the mountains, the people of Ming'ao, with their hard-working and conscientious spirit, managed to carve out a world among the hundreds of thousands of mountains. The terraced fields like annual rings also created Ming'ao's unique pastoral scenery.
The most attractive scenery of Ming'ao is around the Dragon Boat Festival every year. Because the temperature rises during this season, the air is affected by the earth's atmosphere, and the rain and fog weather increase significantly. At this time, the villagers in the mountains The busy farming season for water storage, plowing and sowing. After being filled with water, the terraced fields flashed with silvery white light, and the layers of terraced fields sparkled like silver plates inlaid in the middle of the mountains. Coupled with the unpredictable changes of clouds and mists in the four seasons, it fully demonstrates the beauty of the scenery of the mountains and countryside in the south of the Yangtze River.
In early June, on a quiet weekend, I followed the footsteps of a dream that was ready to move and approached the Ming'ao terraced fields again. This land, which carries the heavy responsibility of nurturing, is like a piano key, playing the symphony of life at any time.
When you set foot on the majestic mountains of southern Zhejiang, cross the long Nanxi River, and find yourself in the Ming'ao terraced fields, you can't help but listen to its mystery, view its splendor, praise its grandeur, and feel its majesty.
It rains a lot here during the Dragon Boat Festival, and sometimes the rain and fog are so heavy that you can only see a few steps away. Therefore, to see the terraced fields, you must not only go during the irrigation season, but also have good weather and good luck.
The best time is when it rained heavily the day before, and the mountains and forests will be filled with mist the next day. I have visited the terraced fields in southern Zhejiang many times. Although my feelings are different each time, the weather is not ideal each time, which leaves me with the opportunity to come back next time.
Terraces are a unique feature of Ming'ao's landscape. The terraced fields rise and fall one after another. They are large or small, long or short, and have different shapes depending on the mountain. They are irregular along the hillside. The ground winds away. The layers descend, leading to small villages with black tiles and white walls in the valley; the layers rise, leading to the clouds on the top of the mountain.
Unlike Yunhe Terraces, where there is only one scenic spot, there are several terraces here, and the viewing spots are relatively scattered. There are six of them, respectively in Ming'ao Village and Zhengshan Village.
The uneven heights of the terraces are like flowing clouds and flowing water, which is shocking. Level-by-level terraces rise from bottom to top, and curves are superimposed layer by layer until they reach the endless sky. The seemingly disordered curves are still well-proportioned. Although they are different in length, they seem to complement each other. It seems to be intermittent, but it is connected from end to end.
The ancient villages dotted in the mist-shrouded green forest can be framed as charming pictures everywhere. This also makes people have to marvel at this masterpiece that has lasted for thousands of years and was carved with uncanny craftsmanship using primitive tools.
If the Yuanyang rice terraces belong to everyone’s ladies, then the southwestern Zhejiang rice terraces belong to Xiaojiabiyu. Hidden deep within this mountain are numerous terraced fields, ranging from several acres in size to as small as dustpans.
The paddy fields, in the smoke-like clouds, are like mirrors, reflecting the clouds, the mountains, the occasional trees, the hurried farmers on the mountain, and the mountains. Watching tourists walking on the field ridge.
I climbed up to the balcony of the sixth floor of the unfinished farmhouse and looked around. The mist, the old cows, the houses, the field ridges like spider silk, and the silvery water surface looked like It is a carefully carved work of art, and it looks like heaven when you reach out.
Ming'ao Township, with its rolling hills, valleys and seas of clouds, and terraced fields built along the mountains, unfolds before our eyes. There is a house in the mountains, and the house is beside the clouds in the morning. The clouds are beside the house, so close that you can touch them, sometimes near and sometimes far away.
I have a question: The water flows downwards, while the terraces rise step by step. In ancient times, when there were no water pumps, where did the water for the water terraces come from? The old man plowing the fields told me: How high the mountains are, how high the water is. As high as the water is, so are Ming'ao's terraced fields.
In fact, any mountainous area suitable for terraced farming must have water sources on the mountain: springs and streams, forest water storage, mist and rainwater... Farmers build embankments and ridges according to different terrain and soil quality, and pass water ditches. Direct water flow into the terraced fields.
Groups of ever-changing clouds and mist swim slowly, and the strong emotions smear out the vast expanse of blue waves, never letting the heart of the terrace collapse and disappear.
The clear spring water flows gurglingly, and the thick true love penetrates the vast years, never letting the love songs of the terraced fields be lonely and lonely.
The farmhouses in the distant mountains are embedded in the mountains and forests, and the clouds and mist are like streamers surrounding the terraced fields. It is real and virtual, and it is very quiet and beautiful.
The mountains are not high, but the trees are beautiful; the fields are not wide, but the water is spiritual. The terraces sing because of the mountains, and the mountains are proud of the terraces; the terraces give the mountains their beauty, and the mountains nurture the life of the terraces.
Looking back at the Ming'ao terraced fields, the ridges are sharp and the steps are clear, just like a three-dimensional history book recording the achievements of China's thousands of years of farming civilization and intangible cultural heritage.
In this era where "mobility" is the fashion, there is still an "immovable" object - terraced fields, silently guarding the common home of mankind.