英语讲故事2024-04-27 The cultiviated growing lands on hills

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China is a large country with numerous hills and mountains.

Not like USA, there is so large a Mississippi 平原 which works so great formodernized farming.

From ancient china, people of generations worked hard to transform the hills into good agriculturalland,

so some part will be elevated to the same horizontal level, to keep waterand soil from washing down to the mountain feet.

This needs much of labor work,and only after the cultivation, the lands can be used for farming.

Far away, we see the blue sky covering the top of the mountains, with hundreds of meters high,or even more than 1 thousand meters.

There is bush around the hillside, creating the main area of residential.

When the rainy days come, the land is able to reserve enough water for growing rice.