Thousand year old salt field

Located in Yantian village, Yangpu Peninsula, Hainan Province, the Millennium ancient salt field has recently been turned into a tourist attraction. This ancient salt field has 750 Mu and has a history of more than 1200 years. It is said that it was made by salt workers who migrated from Putian, Fujian Province. According to the characteristics of high temperature and scorching sun in Hainan Island, salt workers changed the way of "boiling the sea for salt" in the past. They poured the beach sediment dried by the sun into the sea water and filtered it to make brine with high salt content. Then they poured the brine into a stone trough and exposed it to the sun to make salt. Because the salt here is delicious and has curative effect on many diseases, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty gave "Zhengde" to Yantian people. Hainan's Millennium ancient salt field is known as the first salt making field to use sunlight. The ancient salt of the original folk salt making process has been well preserved up to now. At present, there are more than 1000 inkstone type salt troughs with different shapes, which are densely covered with beaches. Now there are still more than 30 salt workers in Yantian village, who work in the ancient way for more than 1200 years every day.

This ancient salt field is located in Yantian village in the south of xinyingwan district office. It is more than 1200 years ago. It has various shapes and an annual output of 500 tons. The Millennium ancient salt field is the earliest solar salt production site in China, and it is also the last ancient salt field in China to retain the original solar salt production method. Yangpu Millennium ancient salt field is the only tourist attraction with ornamental and archaeological value in Yangpu Development Zone and even in China.

Thousand year old salt field

Located in Yantian village, Yangpu Peninsula, Hainan, the Millennium ancient salt field has been approved as a tourist attraction. According to the characteristics of high temperature and scorching sun in Hainan Island, salt workers changed the way of "boiling the sea for salt" in the past. They poured the beach sediment dried by the sun into the sea water and filtered it to make brine with high salt content. Then they poured the brine into a stone trough and exposed it to the sun to make salt. Because the salt here is delicious and has curative effect on many diseases, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty gave "Zhengde" to Yantian people. Hainan's millennium old salt field is known as the earliest salt making field using sunlight, and it is still well preserved in the original folk salt making process. There are more than 1000 inkstone salt troughs of different shapes, which are densely distributed on the beach. There are still more than 30 salt workers in Yantian village, who work in the ancient way for more than 1200 years every day.

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Legend

According to Mr. Sun, a staff member of the publicity section of the xinyingwan District Office of Yangpu Development Zone, this ancient salt field has a history of more than 1200 years. It is said that it was made by salt workers who migrated from Putian, Fujian Province. Salt workers use local materials to cut half of the vast natural volcanic rocks on the seashore and chisel numerous shallow stone troughs, like a square inkstone standing shoulder to shoulder. The size and height of the stones vary with each other. Some of them are carved with simple words, which are scattered and inlaid in ridges and blocks of salt fields. The total number of troughs is more than 6800, which is magnificent. The sutras are usually injected into the stone troughs The filtered sea water will also automatically diffuse into these stone troughs when the sea water is at high tide, allowing the hot sun to bask in salt.

More than 1200 years ago, in the late Tang Dynasty, a group of salt workers from Putian, Fujian Province, for unknown reasons, worked hard to move to gudaner County in the western part of Hainan Island at that time, and built their homes and salt fields by digging up mountains and stones on the coast of Yangpu Peninsula. Their salt fields are very unique. They cut off half of the large natural volcanic rocks by the sea, leave a convex edge on the top of the rocks, and smooth the middle to make a stone trough. Usually, the sea water filtered by sea mud is injected into these stone troughs (the sea water will automatically diffuse into these salt troughs at high tide), and the high-quality edible salt is dried by the sun. Because this method created a high-yield "Sun salt" precedent, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty once wrote "Zhengde" to these salt field people, and later people also called it "Millennium ancient salt field" and "new British ancient salt field".

Tourist Scenery

The scenery around the ancient Yantian is very beautiful. The most common plants are cactus and wild pineapple. Not far away is the famous Yangpu Port. There are construction scenes in full swing and cargo ships from different countries. However, the life of the Ancient Salt Village here is not affected. It is still quiet and leisurely. Children play in the pond beside the ancient salt field, the old people enjoy the cool under the ancient banyan trees, and the people in the ancient salt village are calm and calm.

During the visit, you can see that from time to time little girls in some nearby villages are collecting soil to filter salt.

Archaeological value

It is understood that Yangpu's millennium old salt field is a well preserved ancient salt field in China, and the ancient traditional salt making process still used today is a historical witness of the development of the traditional salt making handicraft industry of the Chinese nation. The oldest salt drying process has been listed in the national intangible cultural heritage list.

Yantian receives about 50000 tourists every year, and most of them are tourists from the island. In order to protect and plan the ancient salt field well, the relevant departments of Danzhou municipal government are planning the development of the ancient salt field, to build the ancient salt field into the only tourist attraction with ornamental and archaeological value in China.

Salt making process

The general steps are as follows:

Pour seawater into the salt tank

Sun exposure

Evaporating water vapor condensing salt crystals

Harvest in the evening

Renovation management

In order to welcome the coming of Hainan happy festival, the millennium old salt fields have been comprehensively renovated in Yangpu

1. Organize the relocation of villagers beside the salt field

2. Street greening

3. Sidewalk setting

Yangpu fire officers and soldiers cleaned the road, so far the road renovation of the Millennium ancient Yantian has been completed.

Travel Tips

Tour notes

Due to the hot weather and salt production process, it is generally necessary to see the process of salt field workers in the morning and evening.

There are no tickets and reception facilities in the scenic spot. It is open 24 hours and takes about 40 minutes to visit.

Don't step on the salt trough when traveling and sightseeing!!!

Salt tank: the water tank with protruding edge and concave inside is similar to a plate for holding water. It is a very important tool for making salt. (the picture on the right is not made by chiseling, but it has been repaired. Now it is very rare to keep the salt tank by hand in ancient times. However, it is different in the ancient salt field of the millennium. Two thirds of them are manual salt tanks.)

Transportation guide

1. Starting from Haikou, drive along the Western Expressway to Dongcheng exit, then drive along S308 provincial road for about 26 km to Danzhou City, then drive westward to Yantian village in Yangpu Economic Development Zone, where the ancient Yantian village is located.

2. Take a bus at the city bus station to Yangpu Economic Development Zone, get off and take a tricycle to the Millennium ancient Yantian.

Address: Yantian village, Yangpu Peninsula, Danzhou City

Self driving navigation:

Starting from Haikou, drive along the Western Expressway to the exit of Yangpu, then drive to the intersection of xinyingwan in Yangpu.

There are road signs beside the temporary station

Backpack Guide:

Take a bus at Haikou West bus station to Yangpu Economic Development Zone, get off and take a chariot (commonly known as a tricycle, about 2-5 yuan from the temporary station) to the Millennium ancient Yantian.

get accommodation

Because Yangpu is close to Danzhou dayunyue lake and Lanyang hot spring, it is recommended to take a bus to places with beautiful scenery and perfect accommodation facilities.

Yangpu yingangwan Hotel (nature of guest house): 88 yuan / room after discount.

Yangpu post and Telecommunications apartment (guest house nature): 88 yuan per standard room.

Yangpu Lipu Hotel (guest house nature): Standard Room 60 yuan / room.

Tips

Due to the hot weather and salt production process, in order to see the working process of salt field workers, generally in the morning and evening, there are no tickets, no reception facilities, 24-hour opening, sightseeing takes about 40 minutes. It should be noted that people living in boat shaped houses of Li people should not wear straw hats, whistle or carry hoes. These are taboos.

Address: Yantian village, Yangpu Peninsula, Western Hainan Province

Longitude: 109.218011

Latitude: 19.738115

Tel: 0898-65569366

Ticket information: free visit

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