The ancient rice terraces of Tiantouzhai and Ping'An were constructed over a period of seven hundred years by non-Han Chinese minority tribes, the Yao and Zhuang, who inhabited this remote mountainous region of Guangxi Province in China's rural southwest. The minority people claimed the Longji Mountain as their own by introducing terraced agriculture. Traveling by bus, I visited this region after the rice harvest, unfortunately, but was able to lodge in one mountain village in order to make an early morning hike along trails through the now barren terraces.
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