CHANGSHA -- Paddy-field remains dating back over 8,000 years have been discovered in Central China's Hunan province, according to the provincial cultural relics and archaeology research institute.

Blanketed in fresh snow, the layered terraced fields in Shexian County, north China Hebei Province, is transformed into a stunning ink wash painting ...

Kongjian Yu, the son of a rice farmer who tended terraced water-filled rice fields in China, is now a world-renowned leading voice on what he calls 'sponge planet:' Sponge cities, sponge ...

The two locations are included in the list of outstanding terraced rice fields under the “Tsunagu Tanada Heritage” initiative by the farm ministry, which is aimed at encouraging their ...

In the falling dusk, 1,340 candles were lit along the narrow paths on June 10, the same number as the rice fields that constitute the Maruyama Senmaida terraced rice paddies. The time-honored ...

It's rice-planting time in the terraced fields of Toho Village, Fukuoka Prefecture. The Take area ― which covers 11 hectares and features about 400 paddies on steep slopes ― has been named one ...

In the center of the island, you can explore terraced rice fields with a 700-year history. You can also find old-style soy sauce breweries that keep alive centuries-old production methods.

Here, we only have mountains, so wehave to grow our crops on the slopes.Most of our cropsare planted on terraces.Lots of crops are grown this wayin China. Like rice and tea.You have to take a ...