Hengshan Terraced Rice Fields Introduction
The Hengshan Terraces are located in the midstream of Dakeng Creek and are a famous terraced landscape in Sanzhi. Departing from the Sanzhi city center towards Hengshan, a picturesque farmland immediately comes into view, with rows of fields standing along the contours of the mountains, interspersed with roads and rivers. The layered landscape creates a geometrical beauty, showcasing stunning scenery that varies with the seasons, whether it’s the desolate beauty during the fallow period or the lush greenery during the season of water bamboo shoots. Hengshan, formerly known as Hengshan Kan, is an area with significant elevation changes. In the early days, Sanzhi faced the sea and had a limited plain area, so the ancestors developed terraced fields along the terrain to cultivate more rice, forming the renowned terraced landscape of Sanzhi today. Although rice is no longer grown in the Hengshan Terraces, it has become the hometown of water bamboo shoots. The harvest season for Sanzhi water bamboo shoots is from September to November each year, during which travelers can visit the Hengshan Terraces to admire the water bamboo fields swaying in the autumn breeze, as well as participate in bamboo shoot harvesting and enjoy specialty meals featuring water bamboo shoots, experiencing the pleasure of agritourism.
