Longji rice terraces are one of the most scenic landscapes you must see while visiting China
The first construction of the terraces began almost a thousand years ago
The Longji terraces are the symbol of Chinese ethnic people's great wisdom and hard work
Zhuang ethnic group is the largest minority group in China with a long history and a glorious culture
Over 90% of the population live in this region
Hi guys! So if you haven't guessed already, today we are at Longji
We are visiting the rice terraces in a bit, but first we stopped at this little village at the bottom
about half an hour away from the top where the terraces are
Zhuang women have a tradition of planting their own cotton and spinning, weaving and dyeing their own cloth
Different branches have different clothing styles
The headwear of the men, women and unmarried girls is often different from each other
and each has its own features
Unmarried women usually have long hair and comb their hair from the left side to the right side and fix it with a hair clip
Do you see that lady over there?
She doesn't have the bun in the front, it means that she is not married yet
Oh! She's married but she doesn't have kids
Check it out. This ball-shaped herb tea is only local in this region
and it is supposed to be really good for your lungs
and when you have a very bad sore throat, this is the remedy for that
Ni hao (hello in Mandarin)
Whoa! Fried rice in bamboo.
Now that is something you don't see anywhere
This is a shredded potato dish with green onions.
It looks like everything they do -- they put garlic in everything
and it tastes amazing
Zhuang typically set up their villages on a mountain slope facing a river
and live in two-story brick houses with Chinese-style roofs
Guys, we're just walking through the village and I've never seen anything like this before.
It's so quaint
It's just pretty incredible seeing all the locals here
The other village we visited was very commercialized and I think it was put there for tourists
but this one it's pretty obviously that the locals are living here and doing their thing
So it looks really --
It's a really cool experience
Their primary products are tropical crops such as rice and corn due to the mild climate and abundant rainfall
Got to the rice terraces
It's pretty incredible here
So we didn't go up the gondola because all the tourists on our bus went up there and
it's full of people.
I don't think you can see the gondola behind me
So it goes quite to the top so you do get quite a nice view from up there
But you don't actually get to walk on the terraces
and you're basically next to whole bunch of tourists. So we thought this is way better
Because we're gonna fly our drone and check it out from up there anyways, and then we get to actually walk along these terraces
Look how gorgeous they are
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