| Our first day in China, we rode by these rice fields. You can see in this picture rice at different stages in the growing process: at first it is planted and it grows closely packed together, as you see in the left hand side of the picture (where the fields look bright green). Then it it uprooted, stalk by stalk, and bunched in bundles such as the ones you see in the center of the picture. People then replant the bundle, but this time, each rice stalk is spaced far apart from the others, as you see in the upper right hand of the picture. The rice is then left to grow up to harvest time. |
