The Nianshan Yunshang Terrace Scenic Area is located in Nianshan Village, Xingxi Township, Zhenghe County, Fujian Province. It is 11 kilometers away from the county seat. In the fifth year of Qianfu (878) during the reign of Emperor Xizong of the Tang Dynasty, Huang Chao’s rebel army entered Zhenghe and once camped in Nianshan, hence the name. Nianshan has terraced fields with beautiful lines and spectacular scales in East China.
The terraced field scenery changes with the seasons, forming a splendid picture scroll throughout the year. In spring, the terraced fields are like mirrors, shining brightly; in summer, the terraced fields are a beautiful green, extremely beautiful; in autumn, it is like a golden ocean with a bumper harvest in sight; in winter, snowflakes are fluttering, defying the frost and snow. The continuous terraced fields wind and turn, blending into the mountain mists and changing between the blue sky and white clouds, just like a fairyland. Nianshan has a profound farming culture. The thousand-year-old alpine farming has left the original ecological village landscape of ‘ancient trees, yellow mud walls, and winding alleys with people’s homes’. In Nianshan’s terraced fields, the short ones are only one or two meters long. Villagers describe them as ‘a frog can jump over three mounds, and a buffalo can lie down and occupy one mound’. The long ones are two or three hundred meters long. Some terraced fields need to connect several mountain pits. There is also a doggerel locally that ‘get up early to transplant seedlings, and one row takes half a day’. A single terraced field in Nianshan is not a scenery. Connected terraced fields form a beautiful picture scroll.Opening hours: Open from 08:00 to 17:30 from November 1st to March 31st; open from 08:00 to 17:00 from April 1st to October 31st.
