International Social Science Journal (Chinese Edition)

No.2, 2022

 

What I see and hear in the terraced field in China

(Abstract)

 

Wangsheng Xu

 

Terracing is a way for use of land across many regions around the world and it is considered as one of the most amazing ways to transform the earth’s surface by human. Today, terraced field around the world is facing a difficulty: how to maintain it. Is it a blessing or misfortune for us in the future? It depends, and is difficult to make a correct judge hastily. I have investigated in a number of terraced field areas in China in my previous work. Here I try to present what I saw and heard in my investigations, and hope to offer a perspective for judgement of the future of terraced field as a special type of tillage.