During planting and harvesting season, the Hani farmers in the terraced mountain rice paddies of Yuanyang County live in these tiny, thatched-roof huts (田篷) set among the hundreds and thousands of paddies on each mountain.
May
06
2010
06
2010
Photo: The Hani of Yuanyang
An ethnic Hani woman carries a duck toward the morning market in Old Yuanyang (老元陽, now Xinjie 新街鎮). Old Yuanyang, previously the county seat of Yuanyang County, sits nearly on top of a punishing mountain (if you're on bikes), surrounded by the Hani terraced rice paddies for which the area is famous.