Longsheng Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces are an outstanding world rice culture landscape, a stereoscopic pastoral poem unprecedented and unmatched in the grand Guilin tourism circle. As the "star" of the tourism brand, images of Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces often appear on TV, newspapers, and various advertisements and promotional materials, becoming the pride of China.
The Dragon Backbone Rice Terraces consist of the Ping'an Zhuang terraces and the Jin坑 Hong Yao terraces. Both terraces have an awe-inspiring shape, poetic and picturesque realms, with their scale and grandeur, three-dimensionality, beauty of lines and colors, richness of ethnic culture, and integrity of preservation making them unmatched by any terraces in the world, truly deserving to be called the best in the world.
No terraces are as majestic and powerful as the Dragon Backbone terraces, stretching endlessly like a giant dragon. It has an overwhelming momentum, layer upon layer of hand-in-hand terraces spiraling up from the foot of the turbulent Longji Mountain to the misty mountain top (the terraces are built between altitudes of 300 meters to 1100 meters), forming a vast and magnificent terrace complex. Due to the steep terrain, the densely packed fields, like scales of a dragon, are embedded on the mighty body of the "dragon". From afar, the shining Longji Mountain is full of dynamism, piercing through clouds and fog like a dragon swallowing mountains and rivers. The Ping'an Zhuang terraces resemble a long dragon winding its way forward, exuding wild youthfulness; the Jin坑 terraces are like a coiled dragon, forming a "heavenly pit" spanning ten miles.
The uniqueness of the Dragon Backbone terraces also lies in their artistic charm and beauty. The curved and flowing field ridges along the slopes and valleys are graceful, expansive, and unrestrained, turning this land into a world filled with the beauty of curves, permeated with the beauty of paintings, sculptures, and music. The vibrant colors of the Dragon Backbone terraces are as distinct as the terraces themselves. In spring, warm water flows, and green sprouts dot the landscape; in summer, lush crops cover the terraces in deep green; in autumn, it's the theme of golden harvests and fragrances; in winter, covered in snow, the terraces transform into a black-and-white painting with clear contrasts. Throughout the day, the radiant Dragon Backbone terraces change their charm and allure according to the weather and the gathering and dispersing of clouds and mists. They say that Dragon Backbone is a paradise for tourism, a holy land for photography, a place with unfathomable aesthetic implications, and a land of endless charm that can never be fully captured.
Layer upon layer of terraces resemble concentric circles of growth rings, reminding one of the arduous times when the ancestors of the Dragon Backbone created great achievements. Construction of the Dragon Backbone terraces began in the Yuan Dynasty. They were shouted out by the cries of workers and built with blood and flesh. At a time when surrounding areas were still in the slash-and-burn era, with remarkable perseverance and extraordinary wisdom, the people of Dragon Backbone created a miracle that moved heaven and earth.
The vitality and spirit of the Dragon Backbone terraces lie in water. In essence, the Dragon Backbone terraces are a "great article" written with water as the axis and veins. For this reason, the people of Dragon Backbone have established strict rules since ancient times, prohibiting deforestation and destruction of forests and water sources, and banning slash-and-burn farming that would disrupt the soil and water conservation. The sound of warning gongs has echoed under this blue sky for several hundred years, thus ensuring that wherever the Dragon Backbone mountains rise, so does the water. This gives the uniquely styled Dragon Backbone terraces their enduring vitality and perfection after centuries of vicissitudes.
Come to Dragon Backbone. Here, the tourism is distinctive:
1. Internationalized rural tourism - here you can experience local flavors while feeling exotic atmospheres.
2. Local Zhuang and Yao elders all greet visitors with ethnic greetings such as "HELLO..."
3. Anyone aged 10-60 can be a tour guide.
4. What other places don't have, we do; what other places have, we also have - we have everything.
5. Every house is a shop; the distinctive stilted houses of the local farmers can accommodate about 20 people, where you can cook your own meals and stir-fry dishes.
6. Chinese come, foreigners come, yellow-skinned, black-skinned, white-skinned, blond-haired, black-haired, red-haired people all come - international leisure rural tourism atmosphere, a paradise on earth, a utopia beyond the world.
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Ticket Price: 50 yuan per person
Transportation: Take the bus to the county town and get off at Heping Township, then take the bus to Longji. The Longsheng - Longji bus costs 6.5 yuan per person.