Longsheng Travel Guide

Longsheng Travel Guide

Longsheng County boasts fantastic natural scenery with spiraling rice terraced fields that were built about 700 years ago, and ethnic villages with unique buildings, costumes and customs. It is famous for its beautiful rice terraced fields and ethnic villages in mountainous areas. The well-known Longji (literally meaning "Dragon's Backbone") rice terraced fields were built through many generations’ hard work ever since the Yuan Dynasty (1271-1368). The fields built along the mountains slopes wind from the riverside up to the mountain top, with the highest place of an elevation of 885 meters (968 yards) and the lowest 380 meters (416 yards).

Besides the wondrous natural scenery, Longsheng County is also famous for its splendid ethnic customs and cultures. There are 10 ethnic groups in Longsheng, including Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, Dong and some others, all of whom are adept in folk singing and dancing. Each group possesses its own charm and differs from the others in architecture, clothing styles, food habits, festivals and customs. more information about Longsheng »

  • Chinese Name: 龙胜
  • Chinese Pinyin: lóng shèng
  • Location: Northeast of Guilin 
  • Latitude: 25°78' N
  • Longitude:110° 02' E
  • Elevation: 700 M (2297 FT)
  • Time Zone: (UTC+8)
  • Area Code: 0773
  • Population: 170,000
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Longji Terraced Field

Attraction Type: Mountains/Hills,

The Longji Terraces are located in the southeast of Longsheng County. The Terraces were first built in the Yuan Dynasty about 700 years ago by the Zhuang people. There are numerous terraced fields, of which the terraced Fields in Longji are the best and most spectacular. It is 22.5 km from Longsheng County an... more about Longji Terraced Field

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Minority village and Longsheng Terraced Field
Longsheng Hiking from Ping'an village to Dazhai village
Longji Terraced Field

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