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The second example I want to talk about is the cultural landscape of Honghe Hani Rice terraces

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and which is list on the world list in 2013

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The Cultural Landscape of Honghe Hani Rice Terraces in China

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covers more than 10000 hectares in Southern Yunnan provience

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is marked by spectacular terraces that cascade down

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the slopes of the towering Ailao Mountains to the banks of the Hong River.

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Over the past 1,300 years, the Hani people have developed a complex system of channels

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to bring water from the forested mountaintops to the terraces.

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They have also created an integrated farming system that involves

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buffalos, cattle, ducks, fish and eel and supports the production of red Rice,

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the area’s primary crops

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The inhabitants worship the sun, moon, mountains, rivers,

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forests and other natural phenomena including fire.

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They live in 82 villages situated between the mountaintop forests and the terraces.

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The villages feature traditional thatched “mushroom” houses.Which is very unique .

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The resilient land management system of the Rice terraces demonstrates extraordinary harmony

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between people and their environment, both visually and ecologically,

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based on exceptional and long-standing social and religious structures.

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Well forgive me for these Chinese characters. I will explain to you

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The Honghe Hani Rice Terrances is more than one thousand and three hundred years.

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And for the humanities， people original people is using these Rice terraces

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from the one thousand years ago till now.

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And building it is very unique culture such as mushroom construction

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and also the construction and building is the mushroom construction

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and combined with rice terraces compared with their land use

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and water use make is to the fantastic cultural landscape.

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And let me talk about the criterion about the Honghe-Hani Rice terraces ,

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One of the issues we are now arguing is that it is a cultural landscape property,

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but it is also need to base on one of the cultural criteria.

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So the Haini terrace based on the criterion three,

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the Honghe Hani terrace are an outstanding reflection of elaborate and finely tuned agricultural,

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forestry and water distribution systems

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that are reinforced by long-standing and distinctive socio-economic-religious systems.

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The Red rice, the main crop of the terraces is farmed on the basis of a complex,

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integrated farming and breeding system

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which ducks fertilise the young rice plants,

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while chickens and pigs contribute fertiliser to more mature plants,

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water buffalo slough the fields for the next year’s planting

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and snails growing in the water of the terraces consume various pests.

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The rice growing process is sustained by elaborate socio-economic-religious systems

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that strengthen peoples’ relationship with the environment,

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through obligations to both their own lands and to the wider community,

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and affirm the sacredness of nature.

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This system of dual interdependence known as the ‘Man-God Unity social system’

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and its physical manifestation in the shape of the terraces together

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form an exceptional still living cultural tradition

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And also the site based on the criterion 5.

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And which is stress, It's relation between nature and people.

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So this is image of about the mushroom building.

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The Honghe Hani Rice terraced landscape reflects in an exceptional way

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a specific interaction with the environment mediated by integrated farming

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and water management systems, and underpinned by socio-economic-religious systems that

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express the dual relationship between people and gods and between individuals and community,

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a system that has persisted for at least a millennium

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as can be shown by extensive archival sources.

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Well, the cultural landscape of Honghe Hani terrace

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and cover a large areas and which is very unique cultural landscape in china.

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The village features traditional touches, the mushroom houses,

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the resign and stand management system of the Rice terraces demonstrate extraordinary harmony

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between people and their environment,

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both visually and acknowledge

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based on the exceptional and a longstanding social and religion structures.

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On June 22,2013, the 37th World Heritage conference

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the culture landscape of Honghe Hani rice terrace in China

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was successful selected on the World Heritage list

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Well, this section I talk about two important case studies,

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which is Uluru-Kata Tjuta and the Honghe Hani rice terraces.

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The next section I will talk about another important example,

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West Lake cultural landscape in Hangzhou. Thank you.