The Brilliant Ecological Wisdom
Chengfeng Li
Walking in the villages of Hani ethnic group, I felt like being in a landscape painting
of mountains, waters, forests, farmland and lakes. Upon the mountains were lush
forests, down in the valley were layers after layers of beautiful terraces. The perennial
gurgling stream strung the forests, villages, terraces and rivers perfectly together. It
is amid such a beautiful environment that the Hani ethnic group has passed thousands
of years. Taking advantage of natural conditions and endowments and fully exerting
their intelligence and persistence, the Hani people have written their own culture
and history marking the transformation from a nomadic group to a farming one.
They have also created the Hani terraces, a magnificent and ecological miracle of
agricultural civilization.
1 Rising from Where It Vanished
Migration has been a heavy topic from time immemorial. To survive and sustain,
mankind has either voluntarily or been forced to migrate, which involves great hardships and a low survival rate, but almost all successful migrations have worked
miracles. In the Shang Dynasty, Pan Geng took the initiative to move the capital to
Yin in order to mediate the relation between the aristocracy and the masses, which led
to the miracle of the Shang Dynasty lasting more than 300 years and left us a brilliant
case of anti-corruption work. In modern times, the CPC-led Chinese Workers’ and
Peasants’ Red Army made strategic withdrawal to maintain revolutionary forces and
defeat the KMT’s encirclement and attacks, which led to the world-famous miracle
The article was originally published on China Environment News on March 6, 2019 and was slightly
edited when included in this book.
C. Li (B)
China Environmental Protection Foundation, Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_60
601
Chengfeng Li
Walking in the villages of Hani ethnic group, I felt like being in a landscape painting
of mountains, waters, forests, farmland and lakes. Upon the mountains were lush
forests, down in the valley were layers after layers of beautiful terraces. The perennial
gurgling stream strung the forests, villages, terraces and rivers perfectly together. It
is amid such a beautiful environment that the Hani ethnic group has passed thousands
of years. Taking advantage of natural conditions and endowments and fully exerting
their intelligence and persistence, the Hani people have written their own culture
and history marking the transformation from a nomadic group to a farming one.
They have also created the Hani terraces, a magnificent and ecological miracle of
agricultural civilization.
1 Rising from Where It Vanished
Migration has been a heavy topic from time immemorial. To survive and sustain,
mankind has either voluntarily or been forced to migrate, which involves great hardships and a low survival rate, but almost all successful migrations have worked
miracles. In the Shang Dynasty, Pan Geng took the initiative to move the capital to
Yin in order to mediate the relation between the aristocracy and the masses, which led
to the miracle of the Shang Dynasty lasting more than 300 years and left us a brilliant
case of anti-corruption work. In modern times, the CPC-led Chinese Workers’ and
Peasants’ Red Army made strategic withdrawal to maintain revolutionary forces and
defeat the KMT’s encirclement and attacks, which led to the world-famous miracle
The article was originally published on China Environment News on March 6, 2019 and was slightly
edited when included in this book.
C. Li (B)
China Environmental Protection Foundation, Beijing, China
© China Environment Publishing Group Co., Ltd. 2021
J. Pan et al. (eds.), Beautiful China: 70 Years Since 1949 and 70 People’s Views
on Eco-civilization Construction, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-6742-5_60
601