Forest Water on the Way to Hani Terraces
In Yuanyang, forested mountaintops, water channels, villages and rice terraces form a connected landscape built over centuries.
Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture.
In Yuanyang, forest, village and rice terrace are linked through water and agricultural work. The landscape contains houses, crops and seasonal decisions as well as expansive views. Jianshui’s purple pottery and Shiping’s tofu introduce different transformations of local materials. Bisezhai’s railway setting in Mengzi and Gejiu’s tin-town fabric show how transport and industry also shaped the prefecture. Honghe’s Hani and Yi identity is a broad administrative frame for these specific local histories.
Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture
Fish, Ducks and Buffalo in a Red-Rice Field
Red rice sits within the Honghe Hani terraces’ mixed-farming system, while local reports document seedbed and rice-fish-duck practices.
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Hani Villages in the Terrace Landscape
Hani villages are part of the terrace landscape, where settlements connect forested slopes, water channels and cultivated land.
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A Year in the Hani Terrace Fields
Yuanyang’s Hani agricultural calendar links seedling work and transplanting with water rites and seasonal observances.
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Carving, Inlay and Polishing in Jianshui Pottery
Jianshui purple pottery takes shape through hand throwing, wet-clay decoration, carving, firing and unglazed polishing.
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Bisezhai, Where Two Rail Gauges Met
At Bisezhai, metre and 600-millimetre railways met, carrying Gejiu tin through a village station within a colonial-era network.
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Gejiu's Tin Landscape Beyond the Mine
Gejiu’s listed industrial sites mark distinct stages of tin production, from ore concentration and smelting to machinery and transport.
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The Two Wells Behind Shiping Tofu
In Shiping's old town, sweet water for soaking and sour water for setting distinguish one tofu tradition from its neighbor's.
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Yuanyang Hani Terraces
Forest water, villages and rice fields form a connected terrace landscape in Yuanyang. Houses, crops and seasonal farming decisions are part of that relationship.
Jianshui Purple Pottery Region
Jianshui purple pottery gives a vessel’s surface form through carving, filling, scraping and polishing. Named processes distinguish this local craft from other Yunnan pottery traditions.
Bisezhai Railway Site
Bisezhai in Mengzi brings different railway gauges and their infrastructure into one setting. Platforms, tracks and buildings preserve distinct parts of a transport history.
Gejiu Tin-Town Landscape
Tin production shaped Gejiu beyond the mine itself. Industrial buildings and town spaces connect extraction with the wider life of a metal-producing city.
Shiping Old Town and Tofu-Making
Shiping tofu accounts distinguish water used in making from a separate well-water story. Local materials and processing steps give the food a specific urban setting.
Photo credits and rights
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The Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in Yuanyang.xiquinhosilva · 2023-06-22 16:14 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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The terraced landscape of Yuanyang; the photograph does not establish a rice variety or a fish-duck farming practice.xiquinhosilva · 2023-06-23 08:08 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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Mushroom-roof houses at Qingkou Hani Folk Village, Yuanyang.Ping an Chang · 2019-12-20 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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Water-filled rice terraces in Yuanyang. The source dates belong to individual photographs.chensiyuan · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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Jianshui purple pottery, as identified by the photographer.Matthieu Lelievre · 2013-04-02 06:24:36 · CC BY-SA 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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Bisezhai railway station and its associated structures, Mengzi.N509FZ · 2023-04-05 12:20:39 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
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A tree-lined street in Gejiu, photographed in April 2026; the living city around the tin-industry story.源義信 · 2026-04-28 · CC BY 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
