The Hani people has created world-famous Hani terrace culture.

On the viewpoint of ethnoecology,the authors analyzed the ethnoecology practice of Hani terrace, expounded the limited factors of sustainable development in the ethnoecological system of Hani terrace, and established the sustainable development pattern of Hani terrace ethnoecological system from three angles of epistemology, methodology and technology.

Being the world inheritance,the Hani terraces in Yuanyang County has been the focus of attention worldwide.

Hani terraced fields provide the necessary food for the Hani people generation by generation,so research on the water culture has great significance for the protection and development of the Hani terraced fields.

This article announces the prospect of tourism of Hani terraced fields after analyse the cultural meaning of Hani terraced fields in Yuanyang county, and then gives some advice to develop Hani terraced fields.

Based on inducing the development status of Hani terrace wetland tourism, the existing problems of developing Hani terrace wetland tourism economy in Yuanyang and the necessity,basis and relevant theory of constructing compensation mechanism for ecotourism of Hani terrace wetland in Yuanyang were analyzed.