Image: Where water is available, rice is chosen but in this site, upland crop field, corn, potato, millet, buckwheat, bean and vegetables are grown, They also keep cattle, ranching on mountain steep meadow. Houses are built by dry mud brick. Crop fields are hedged by similar brick wall at nearby and by stones in remote crop fields, to avoid grazing by cattle. Many people of Yi live in mountainous area. But it does not mean they are so to say "hill tribe" who prefer live up on the mountain and mainly live on shifting cultivation. We Japanese also traditionally have various way of life on cultivation according to the local condition and tradition. by autan

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