Deep Hunan | 这张“种子票”，从紫鹊界寄给全世界

你见过能“发芽”的媒体证吗？

组委会跟我说：“这张媒体证，不能扔。”

为啥？

“种进土里，它能生根发芽。”

原来，它是有生命的。

Ever seen a press badge that can sprout?

The organizers told me, "This badge — you can't just throw it away."

"Why?"

"Plant it, and it'll grow."

So it's alive.

此刻，它正小心翼翼地垂在胸前。

有一点（植绒）磨砂感。

是草本种子混入再生纸浆后的微凹凸触感。

Right now, I'm wearing it carefully.

A soft, suede-like feel.

Tiny bumps — herb seeds mixed into recycled paper pulp.

紫鹊界对话世界大会上，有很多农林牧渔的专业名词，我听不懂。但两个词让我心头一动：农耕文化，农业文化遗产。

During this Ziquejie-world dialogue, there were plenty of farming terms I didn't get. But two phrases stuck with me: Farming Culture, Agricultural Heritage.

农耕，早已不只是梯田上的作物、餐桌上的一粟。而这张小小的通行证，也带着我走进了更深的梯田世界。

Farming isn't just crops on terraces or a grain of rice on your plate anymore. And this little badge? It led me deeper into the terraces.

梯田脚下，走进正龙村。八音锣鼓，黄龙舞动，山歌相和；九曲回龙宴，梅山武术，傩戏……都是梯田农耕孕育的血脉。这些文化遗产不是博物馆里的标本，而是一个“活态系统”—— 有人生活、有作物产出、不断演进。

At the foot of the terraces, we walked into Zhenglong Village. Gongs and drums, the loong dance, mountain songs calling and answering; the nine-bend banquet, Meishan martial arts, Nuo opera... all of it, born from terrace farming. These aren't dusty museum specimens. They're a living system — with people in it, producing from it, still evolving.

为什么全世界的农耕学者，偏偏翻山越岭，来到新化这座小县城？风从山谷里吹上来，稻浪一层推着一层，像在替这片土地回答。

Why do farming scholars from all over the world to reach this tiny county of Xinhua? Wind rises from the valley, rice waves push one after another, like the land itself answering.

紫鹊界，身兼“全球重要农业文化遗产”和“世界灌溉工程遗产”双重身份。这个组合，全球稀有。无塘无坝，天然自流灌溉。

Ziquejie holds two titles: Globally Important Agricultural Heritage System(GIAHS), and World Heritage Irrigation Structure(WHIS). A combination that's rare worldwide. No ponds, no dams — just natural gravity-fed irrigation.

两千多年前的秦汉，苗、瑶、侗、汉族的先民们来到这片山地，没有平原，就顺着山势开田；没有水塘，就靠森林涵养水源，让山泉一级一级往下漫。

Over 2,000 years ago, in the Qin and Han dynasties, the Miao, Yao, Dong, and Han peoples came to these mountains. No flatland — so they carved fields along the slopes. No reservoirs — so they let forests hold the water, and mountain springs flow down, level by level.

“我们因梯田结缘，因互鉴相知。这里的自流灌溉，与韩国青山岛板石异曲同工；四季稻作景观，与日本能登半岛里山里海交相辉映。”

“We bound by terraces, connected through mutual learning. Its gravity-fed irrigation echoes the stone terraces of Cheongsando, Korea. Its four-season rice landscape mirrors Japan's Noto Peninsula satoyama.”

104项全球重要农业文化遗产，中国占25项，居世界第一。ERAHS（东亚地区农业文化遗产研究会）执行主席说，紫鹊界最动人的地方，在于它把乡村社会、农业生产、生态保育，编织成了一个复合系统。用大白话说就是：这里的人、田、水、林，不是各过各的，而是互相“投喂”。你养我一口水，我还你一片绿。人与自然和谐共生的东方智慧，在这里流淌。

Of the world's 104 GIAHS, China has 25 at the top of list. The ERAHS (East Asia Research Association for Agricultural Heritage Systems) executive chair said what's most moving about Ziquejie is how it weaves rural life, farming, and ecology into one system. Put simply: the people, fields, river, and forests here don't live apart — they feed each other. You give me water, I give you green. Eastern wisdom, living in harmony with nature — right here.

这张媒体证，忽然变得沉甸甸的。

它不只是我们走进梯田的通行证——更仿佛是一张通往美丽中国的种子票。种下它，等风来，等发芽，等这片古老的智慧，迎来破土新生……

This badge suddenly feels heavy.

It's not just our ticket into the terraces — it's like a seed ticket to a beautiful China. Plant it. Wait for the wind. Wait for it to sprout. Wait for this ancient wisdom to break through the soil and rise again...

记者｜黄思婷

责编：王柯沣

一审：王柯沣

二审：秦慧英

三审：张权

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