Aerial view of rice fields in Yunnan Province, China -- Jialiang Gao/Getty Images

Aerial view of rice fields in Yunnan Province, China -- Jialiang Gao/Getty Images

comments,

• The steep hills of this region forced locals to become freeform farmers.""Who says farming can\t be an art form?
• Much of the rice grown in these fields is used to make a common regional dish.""Its poetic name is anything but common
• The people who built these thousand-year-old terraces keep track of the past through an oral history.""Tribe members can name 50 generations of ancestors
• Because it\s sheltered by the high slopes of the Tibetan Plateau…""This region was given a name that literally means “south of the clouds”