How old are the terraces in Ziquejie?

Ziquejie Terrace is located in Shuiche Town and Feng Jia Town in the west of Xinhua County, Loudi City, Hunan Province, China. It has a history of more than 2000 years since reclamation. The total area is more than 80,000 mu.

Ziquejie Terrace is located in Shuiche Town, a mountainous area in the west of Xinhua County, surrounded by more than 80,000 mu of terraces. Its high terrain, large scale and beautiful shape are the best in the world. Ziquejie has beautiful ecological environment, dense terraced fields, primitive forms, criss-crossing buildings, smooth lines, long mountains and high waters, and scattered houses, which fully shows the natural beauty, simple beauty, physical beauty and cultural beauty of terraced fields. Especially with the change of climate in four seasons, the terraced fields in Ziquejie are more graceful, just like fairyland on earth. Shuifeng Highway hovers over ten kilometers between these terraces. Terraces are spread over more than a dozen hills with an altitude of 500 meters to 1000 meters. The largest is only 1 mu, and the smallest can only insert dozens of crops. The ups and downs can be described as graceful and breathtaking. According to the survey, Ziquejie terraced fields have a history of more than 2,000 years, which is the crystallization of the work of Miao, Yao, Dong and Han ancestors. It is a historical heritage of the combination of mountain fishing and hunting culture and rice cultivation culture, and it is a prominent symbolic cultural landscape of Gu Mei. Its large scale, large quantity and beautiful form are rare in the whole province and even the whole country, and its unique farming methods and natural irrigation system.