Longji Terraces
In the southeast of Long Sheng County in Guangxi Province, there is a group of large-scaled rice terraces built into the hillside. Longsheng is famous for it: 60 square kilometers of terraced rice fields. It is in Pingan village, 22.5 km from the county and 108 km from the city of Guilin.
They were first built in the Yuan dynasty and completed in the Qing dynasty by Zhuang people. The highest part being 880 m in elevation while the lowest part 380 m in elevation.
Some of the terraces look like great chains, other look like ribbons. They wind from the foot to the top of the hill. The smaller ones are like snails and the bigger ones like towers. There are layers on layers of terraces, high and low. The outline is very smooth. Its scale is enormous.
It divides the mountain into layers of water glittering in the sun in spring, layers of green rice shoots in summer, layers of golden rice in fall, and layers of silvery frost in winter.
It is called "The champion of the terrace world". It is Longji Terraces(the Dragon's Backbone Rice Terraces).