CHINA - Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces

Postal enviada por JWK (JWK531) a cambio de una UNESCO de España.

Envío - 01 de Agosto del 2015.

INSCRIPTION/INSCRITO: 2013

The Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces, China covers 16,603-hectares in Southern Yunnan. It is marked by spectacular terraces that cascade down the slopes of the towering Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River. Over the past 1,300 years, the Hani people have developed a complex system of channels to bring water from the forested mountaintops to the terraces. They have also created an integrated farming system that involves buffalos, cattle, ducks, fish and eel and supports the production of red rice, the area’s primary crop. The inhabitants worship the sun, moon, mountains, rivers, forests and other natural phenomena including fire. They live in 82 villages situated between the mountaintop forests and the terraces. The villages feature traditional thatched “mushroom” houses. The resilient land management system of the rice terraces demonstrates extraordinary harmony between people and their environment, both visually and ecologically, based on exceptional and long-standing social and religious structures.

http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1111

Me ha llegado esta estupenda postal de China, muy estética en su anverso y genial en el reverso con sellos preciosos y buena info. Estas terrazas me recuerdan a aquellas que tenemos por el mediterráneo (a ver, en estructura, porque nuestras terrazas son mayoritariamente de secano)

Thanks for this card and for the nice stamps that you put on them JWK!