【整理】2008-06-18 Wild China 美丽中国 -1
The last hidden(mystery) world,China!
For centuries,travelers to China have told thousands of magical landscapes, and surprising cultures.Chinese civilization is the world’s oldest,and today it's the largest, with well over a billion people. it’s home to more than fifty distinct ethnic groups and wild range of traditional lifestyles, often in close partnership with nature.
We know China faces immense social and enviromental problems, but there is great beauty here, too.China is home to the world’s hightest mountains, Vast deserts ranging from searing hot to mild numbing cold, steaming forests(tropical forests) ,harboring rare creatures, grassy plains beneath faster riders,and rich tropical seas, Now for the first time ever, we can explore the whole of this great country. Meet some of the surprising and exotic creatures lived in there, and consider the relationship of the people and wild life of China, to the remarkable landscape in with they live.
This is wild China!
Our exploration of china begins in the warm subtropical South. On the Li River, fisherman and birds perch(站) on banboo rafts, a partnership that goes back more than a thousand years. the scenery is known throughout the world. a recurrent(反复出现的) motif(主题) in Chinese paintings and the major tourist attraction.the south of China is a vast area, eight times larger than the UK. it’s a landscape of hills, but also of water.it rains here for up to two hundred and fifty days a year and standing water(不流动的水) is everywhere.
In the floodplain(漫滩) of the Yangtze River, black-tailed godwits probe the muds in search of worms,but it isn’t just wildlife that survive in this environment. the swampy(沼泽的) ground provides ideal conditions for the remarkable member of grass family, rice. the Chinese have been cultivating rice for at least eight thousands years.