Guilin's terraced fields carry on a seven-hundred-year-old tradition of cooperative plowing
Original title: Cooperative plowing lasts seven hundred years on the terraced fields
On April 20, in the terraced fields of Ping'an Village, Longji Town, two Zhuang compatriots plow cooperatively.
In the various villages of Longji Town, Longsheng Various Nationalities Autonomous County, Guilin City, Guangxi, because machinery or draft cattle cannot easily work the irregular terraced fields, the method of "the woman pulls in front, the man pushes behind" has always been used to plow and harrow the fields. This method has continued to the present day for nearly seven hundred years and is called "cooperative plowing." The partners in cooperative plowing may be neighbors or husband and wife, and it is a special sight in the terraced fields.
Xinhua News Agency release (Photo by Wen Yue)
On April 20, in the terraced fields of Ping'an Village, Longji Town, two Zhuang compatriots plow cooperatively.
On April 20, in the terraced fields of Ping'an Village, Longji Town, two Zhuang compatriots plow cooperatively.