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Unit 6 At one with nature U6 Section A Longji Rice Terraces Imagine mountains wrapped in silver water, shining in the spring sun. Summer sees the mountains turn bright green with growing rice. During autumn, these same mountains are gold, and in winter they are covered in sheets of white frost. These are the colours of the Longji Rice Terraces. These terraces were built by the local Zhuang and Yao people, to whom Guangxi is home. Starting in then Yuan Dynasty, work on the terraces took hundreds of years, until its completion in the early Qing Dynasty. Reaching as far as the eye can see, thes