Every autumn harvest season, the terraced fields in China's southern mountainous regions are blanketed in gold. From mountain peak to valley floor, curved field ridges wind down the slopes, one layer after another, ripe rice ears sway in the breeze, and golden hues seem to flow slowly along the contours of the mountains.

Well-known terraced fields such as Longji in Guangxi, Jiabang in Guizhou, and Hani in Yunnan are all located in mountainous areas where flat land is scarce. Generation after generation, local farmers have carved out terraces along the slopes and cultivated rice there. From spring transplanting to heading and grain filling, through the challenges of rainy seasons and intense sunshine during field management, until the rice ripens and the whole mountainside is spread with gold—this flowing autumn color is the fruit of farmers' year-round toil, not merely a beautiful landscape.

Standing before the terraced fields, you feel not only the beauty of the mountains and fields, but also the presence of a way of life in which people have lived off the land for generations and coexisted with nature.