Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture.

Babao and Bamei belong to Guangnan, while Puzhehei’s lakes and karst peaks form another setting in Qiubei. Their stories are grounded in different waters, fields and settlements. Sanqi introduces a cultivated crop and processing chain; its production history is distinct from claims about medical treatment. At Tianbao in Malipo, a local market connects border infrastructure with everyday exchange. Together these places make Wenshan’s Zhuang and Miao autonomous prefecture more geographically specific.

Aerial view of patchwork fields and rounded karst hills at Babao in Guangnan, with clouds crossing the landscape. — Rice fields, villages and karst hills at the Babao Imperial Fields in Guangnan, photographed from above low cloud.

Wenshan Zhuang and Miao Autonomous Prefecture

Babao Rice in a Karst Reserve

Babao rice is named among the values of a reserve that also protects karst, waterfall hydrology and aquatic communities.

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A waterfall drops through forested karst slopes beside cultivated fields at Sanla in Guangnan.

Babao Reserve: Water, Karst and Rice Fields

Babao Provincial Nature Reserve links karst landforms and waterfall hydrology with aquatic habitats and cultivated rice resources.

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Cultivated Panax notoginseng in Dalishu Township, Maguan County, Wenshan.

Wenshan Sanqi: Cultivation, Forest and Processing

A 2026 report traces Wenshan sanqi from GAP and forest cultivation through fresh-root cleaning, grading and drying.

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Bamei, Yunnan: cave entrances, fields and the large banyan, as identified in the source titles.

Bamei, the Village at the Forest Opening

Bamei’s local name, waterways, rice-growing culture and wooden farm tools describe a lived Zhuang village landscape.

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The Tianbao China border-port gate with a truck and a car.

Tianbao Market: A Border Crossing with a Local Trading Floor

At Malipo's Tianbao port, the border market connects residents' exchange to inspection, storage and online settlement.

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Puzhehei, a Chain of Lakes and Karst Peaks

The Wenshan landscape is shaped by connected water, limestone hills, caves and wetlands.

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What the Name Puzhehei Carries

A Yi-language place-name connects the scenic area's lakes to food, memory and village life.

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Places

Babao in Guangnan

Babao’s rice fields belong to a karst-water landscape within Guangnan. Protected-area accounts connect farming with the waters and landforms surrounding it.

Sanqi-Growing Region of Wenshan

Sanqi production in Wenshan includes cultivation, forest-understorey experiments and processing. These agricultural histories concern the crop’s making and handling.

Bamei in Guangnan

Bamei is a valley settlement in Guangnan, approached through a landscape of river and forest openings. Its location connects village space with the surrounding karst environment.

Tianbao Border Market

The Tianbao market in Malipo is a local exchange space near border infrastructure. Dated reports describe particular trading arrangements and their administration.

Puzhehei

Puzhehei in Qiubei links lakes, waterways and karst peaks. Its place-name history and landscape descriptions offer different accounts of this water-rich setting.

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Rice fields, villages and karst hills at the Babao Imperial Fields in Guangnan, photographed from above low cloud.unknown · unknown Photo source ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
The Sanla Waterfall scenic area in Guangnan, with forested karst slopes, water and cultivated fields.unknown · unknown Photo source ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Cultivated Panax notoginseng in Dalishu Township, Maguan County, Wenshan.Zhangmoon618 · 2025-05-06 · CC BY-SA 4.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Bamei, Yunnan: cave entrances, fields and the large banyan, as identified in the source titles.Nyx Ning · Taken on 6 August 2014 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
The Tianbao port gate in Malipo, pictured in a Yunnan tourism brochure; border-region context for the Tianbao market story.Not stated in brochure · 2021-06 (PDF path; image capture date not stated) · Unspecified; no reuse licence statement found Photo source ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
Puzhehei Lake in Qiubei County.SuSanA Secretariat · 2009-08-29 13:39:16 · CC BY 2.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.
The lake landscape of Puzhehei, Qiubei.Anders Johnson · Taken on 13 March 2014 · CC BY 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Resized without cropping or upscaling; converted to WebP.