In modern times,people's perception of the attributes of terraces in the Loess Plateau had un-dergone a remarkable transformation-in addition to its essential"farmland attributes,"a new"soil and water conservation attribute"had been extended.The source of this cognition was not only the traditional attention to the field system of the upstream and middle reaches of the Yellow River in the concept of combating de-sertification but also the development of modern experimental agronomy.However,due to the influence of the turbulent situation in modem China,the promotion of this technology did not achieve the expected re-sults at that time.Nevertheless,the exploration of water conservation in terraced fields by modern intellectu-als,had laid the necessary foundation for the engineering construction and popularization of terraced fields in the Loess Plateau after the founding of the People's Republic of China.
terraced fieldsLoess Plateausoil and water conservationModern China
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