January 18th, 2008 - Guizhou Bouyei

3 million Bouyei people live hidden in the vast mountains of Southwest China's Guizhou province.   Guizhou province is perhaps the poorest province in China.  There is a famous saying about Guizhou, "There are not three days without rain, three pennies to spare and three square mu of flat land."   The Bouyei live simple lives as farmers.  Farmers will carve out the rocky and hilly slopes to form terraced mountains on which they plant their rice crops.   In one Bouyei area, there was a flood that killed many people, devastated the land, and corroded the land so that the Bouyei are no longer able to farm.

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