BBC美丽中国英文字幕word第一集.doc

BBC美丽中国英文字幕word第一集
The last hidden world
China
For centuries, travellers to China have told tales of magical landscyang county
plunge nearly thousand meters to the floor of the Red River Valley each contains literally thousands of stack terraces carved out by hand using basic digging tools
Yunnan's rice terraces are among the oldest human structures in China still ploughed as they always have been
by domesticated water buffaloes
whose ancestors originated in these very valleys
This man-made landscape is one of the most amazing engineering feats of preindustrial
China
It seems as if every square inch of land
has been pressed into cultivation
As evening approaches
an age-old ritual unfolds
It's the mating season
and male paddy frogs are competing for the attention of females
But it dosen't always pay to draw too much attention to youself The Chinese Pond Heron is a crapulous predator
Even in the middle of a ploughed paddy field
This may look like a slaughter
but as each heron can swallow only one frog at a time
the vast majority will escape to croak another day
Terrace paddies like those of Yunyang county are found across much of southern China
This whole vast landscape is dominated by rice cultivation In here in Guizhou province, the Miao minority have developed a remarkable rice culture
With every inch of fertile land given over to rice cultivation the Miao build their wooden houses on the steepest and least productive hillsides In Chinese rural life, everything has a use
dried in the sun, manure from the cowsheds would be used as cooking fuel It's midday and the Song family are
tucking into a lunch of rice and vegetables
Oblivious to the domestic chitchat
granddad Guyong Song has serious maters on his mind
Spring is a start of the rice growing season
the success of the crop will determin how well the family will eat next year so planting at the right time is critical
The ideal date depends on what the weath