There is a village called Mangshan Village, about 20 km far from the south of Anren County, where the mountains are beautiful, the villagers are very simple, and the terraces are very rare in the southern Hunan.
If do not personally come to the Mangshan village, you absolutely cannot understand the shocking beauty of terraces surrounded by the mountains; If do not personally climb the hillside, you absolutely cannot imagine the much difficult that people for generations in Mangshan Village built the terraces by shoulders and hands for hundreds of years.
In the 15 administrative villages of the town, the Mangshan village is at the highest location, the average elevation of six villages under the jurisdiction of 800 meters, and the highest elevation of 1000 meters. You can imagine the inconvenient and difficult of villagers in the production and life.
Mangshan village with 600 people even in the heyday has been more than 300 years. Since more than 300 years, Mangshan villagers have lived here for generations. The ancestors in this land reclaimed wasteland and left the valuable property to descendants – more 700 mu terraces along the foot of the mountains.
They are the spectacular scale terraces. From the foot of the valley to the mountain top with an altitude of 1000 meters and from the edge of the forest trees to the front of cliff, almost all are opened up the terraces where there is soil. Terraces are surrounded by hills, layered and well-proportioned, liking huge snails, but also liking a split of the mirrors and formed the layer patterns with the mountains.
Mountains, troughs, and ancestors' courage and strength to survive in difficult conditions achieve the Mangshan terraces. Mangshan terraces carve the beautiful world in the mountains.