Farmers in Shenyang have been creating the images for an annual festival since 2012. A 3D picture of a monkey is seen on rice fields, June 15, 2016, in Shenyang, China. VCG via Getty Images ...

Breath-taking images of sunlight reflecting off mesmerising rice paddies have emerged from south-west China. They were taken on February 20 in Yuanyang County, Yunnan Province.

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A sleeping cat hugs a fish in a picture seen from the air, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.

Today, of the 236,112 acres of rice fields that were documented, about 39,000 acres of tidal rice fields still have dike and water infrastructure and are managed for wildlife, such as Nemours.

An ariel view of a sleeping cat hugging a fish is seen in a picture, picked out in sprouting rainbow seedlings in a rice field in Thailand to illustrate a traditional proverb about abundance.