Salt Making Industry History Museum

The Zigong Salt Industry History Museum is a professional museum of the history of science and technology in China, and it is also a national first-class museum, located in Ziliujing District of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, on the bank of Fuxi River at the foot of Longfeng Mountain. The museum was established in 1959, and the site is the Xiqin Guild Hall built in the first year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736). This is a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants with collected funds, integrating the architectural styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties and folk buildings. Well-preserved steles, wood carvings, stone carvings, and clay sculptures are physical specimens for the study of social life, economic conditions, and religious art in the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War. The Zigong Salt Industry Museum has a collection of 18,214 movable cultural relics, and the basic display includes the history of well salt technology in China, the geological display of the Zigong salt industry, and the history of salt tax in Zigong. The museum has a total of 1,975 sets of cultural relics related to the development of well salt, including historical documents, literature, and archival materials. Among them, there are 426 sets of historical relics, 730 sets of salt history relics, and 819 sets of specimen fossils. A total of 431 sets have been identified as precious cultural relics, including 55 sets of first-class cultural relics. The museum's collection of 503 pieces of traditional drilling and well repair tools is the only relatively complete group of ancient percussion drilling tools preserved in China. These tools of different periods, forms, and purposes reflect the well salt technology and craftsmanship created by generations of salt workers, marking the development of China's drilling technology. The museum's collection of well stove management contracts, rock mouth books, and account books from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period are of value for the study of the history of science and technology and socio-economic history.

📍 Zigong Salt Industry History Museum 💰 Ticket: 35 yuan/person 🕕 Visiting duration: 0.5-1h Continuing my travel notes in Zigong. This small southwestern city is not very famous, indeed less known than Chengdu. But if you say it's famous, rabbit heads, lantern festivals, well salt, dinosaur fossils, each one is more popular than the last. Today, let's talk about one of Zigong's specialties—well salt. Historically, Zigong has drilled over 13,000 well salt mines, with the deepest reaching more than 1,000 meters underground, which is equivalent to drilling through Mount Everest more than 400 times. To understand well salt, we must mention two destinations: one is Shenhai Well, and the other is the 'Zigong Salt Industry History Museum' we are visiting today. Its predecessor, the Xiqin Guild Hall, was built by Shaanxi salt merchants during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. Shaanxi + salt merchants can be said to be fully buffed, and you can imagine how 'extravagantly inhumane' it is here. The salt industry history here is certainly present, but it's mainly about the displays, which are somewhat dull. Compared to the displays, the most worthwhile aspect to see here is actually the architecture. The architectural style here blends the styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties, both royal and folk. In addition to its grand scale, the details are also very well-crafted. A large number of stone and wood carvings are exquisitely detailed, and the extensive gilding speaks to the cost-no-object construction, as well as the beautifully intricate caisson ceilings and complex flying eaves that you would only expect to see in Beijing. It can be said that whatever elements are luxurious and grand, they've been incorporated here. In all of China, aside from the emperor, perhaps only the fabulously wealthy salt merchants would dare to do this. In 1959, Grandpa D personally designated this place as China's only salt industry history museum, allowing it to be perfectly preserved to this day.

Hey~ Hello everyone, the must-go place for the Spring Festival ❤️ Recommendation reason: Come and play during the Spring Festival, full of New Year's flavor, the seasonal Zigong Lantern Festival, and you can also feel the local food and salt industry history~ The strategy includes the 2024 Zigong Lantern Festival Guide ✈️✈️How to reach Zigong✈️✈️ 🚄Fastest by high-speed rail: Departing from Chengdu: Chengdu South Station and East Station-Zigong Station, fastest 51 minutes Departing from other provinces: You can land at Tianfu Airport (Tianfu Airport Station-Zigong Station) fastest 30 minutes 🚗Self-driving: Chengdu city area-Zigong, about 2h ✨✨Two-day tour itinerary✨✨ Day1️⃣: Arrive in Zigong in the morning → Lunch at Toilet Rabbit →🌟Salt Industry History Museum→Color Lantern Museum (optional)→Dinner at Coal Dam Dry Pot→🌟Watch Zigong Lantern Festival Day2️⃣: 🌟Zigong Dinosaur Museum→Lunch at Ru Ping Traditional Dipping Vegetable (opposite is Feihong Fish House can also choose)→🌟Shenhai Well→Return trip Day 1 itinerary: 1, Toilet Rabbit (only one store, no branches) A very famous old shop, good at making rabbit, navigation📍 No. 39, No. 93, Tongxing Road 2, Salt Industry History Museum🌟 China's only salt industry history museum, here you can understand Zigong, about 1h 3, Color Lantern Museum It can be considered as a substitute for the Lantern Festival, you can go and see it on the way, optional 4, Coal Dam Dry Pot It's a place name and there are many dry pot shops nearby. The duck tongue and chicken wings are recommended. Navigation📍No. 20, Zhenzhu Temple Road 5, 🏮Zigong Lantern Festival·Lantern Viewing Guide🏮 This year is the 30th session, navigation📍 Zhonghua Color Lantern World, ‼️Note: Closed for one day on February 9 🚗Self-driving parking: The No. 2 parking lot is close to the entrance, and other parking lots can take a free shuttle bus back and forth 👀Recommended for entering the park: 19:00-20:30 is the peak of entering the park. It is recommended to enter the park after 9 o'clock in the evening, and there will be fewer and fewer tourists. The park closes at 23:30 from February 10th to 17th, and at 23:00 from February 18th to 24th 🎫Tickets: If the online tickets are sold out, you can scan the code on site or buy tickets at the ticket window. Day 2 itinerary: 1, Dinosaur Museum🌟 Almost includes all known dinosaur species from the Jurassic period 2, Lunch Eat according to your preferences, recommend📍Ru Ping Traditional Dipping Vegetable, the dipping vegetable is special, the small stir-fried chicken offal and intestines are very delicious 3, Shenhai Well🌟 National 4A-level scenic spot. It is recommended to ask for a guide, play for 1h 🏨Accommodation recommendation: For convenience, stay near the Lantern Festival and Dinosaur Museum, Zigong is small and easy to take a taxi, stay in the old city area, there are more food on Wuxing Street and Tongxing Road 🍭Specialty food: Zigong cold rabbit, ginger fresh pot rabbit, dipping vegetable, boiled beef, Daan roast beef, Fushun tofu flower, Artemisia leaf chicken feet ✨ Above, finally suggest to collect, like not to get lost~㊗️Happy New Year to y

🏞【Zigong Salt Industry History Museum Guide】 The Salt Industry History Museum, located at the foot of Longfeng Mountain on the bank of Fuxi River in Ziliujing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, is one of the earliest professional museums established in China and the only salt industry science and technology history museum in China. It displays the historical evolution of ancient well salt production in China and drilling, well management, and tool retrieval technologies, and uses modern means such as sound, light, and electricity to realistically reproduce the evolution and transformation of well salt production technology in the millennium salt capital. The predecessor of the Salt Industry Museum was the Xiqin Guild Hall, also known as the "Guan Di Temple" (mainly offering Guan Di's position, also known as Guan Di Temple), which was a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants who came to Zigong to operate the salt industry, so it was called the Xiqin Guild Hall. 💰Average consumption: Ticket: 35 yuan/person Explanation: Chinese explanation 200 yuan/batch (within 10 people per batch, an additional 10 yuan for each additional person) 🕙Business hours: Open all year round, Monday to Sunday 08:30-17:30 📍Detailed address: No. 173, Jiefang Road, Ziliujing District, Zigong City, Sichuan Province Parking: There is a parking lot P opposite the museum gate 🌟Highlights: Wangye Temple (also part of the "Salt Industry History Museum" building complex, a 10-minute walk away) Shenhai Well (It is recommended to first visit the "Salt Industry History Museum" to understand salt culture, salt theory, and salt history, and then to see the real salt well, you will have a different feeling) to go for the Spring Festivalthe New Year with a tripSurrounding Tour Festival TravelFoodLantern Festival

Zigong, known as 'the city established because of salt', is located in the southern part of the Sichuan Basin and is a dazzling pearl of the 'land of abundance'. Zigong is an important dinosaur fossil site in China and is known as the 'hometown of dinosaurs'. Zigong has three treasures: dinosaurs, salt wells, and lanterns, as well as delicious food. The rich tourism resources satisfy the eyes and taste buds of tourists. Dinosaur Museum: The Dinosaur Museum is located in Dashanpu Town, Da'an District, Zigong City. It is a large-scale site museum built on the world-famous 'Dashanpu Dinosaur Fossil Group Site'. It is also the first specialized dinosaur museum in China. The Zigong Dinosaur Museum is divided into three floors, with the main exhibits being the Dashanpu dinosaur fossil burial site and the excavated dinosaur fossils. The exhibition is divided into three parts: the first part focuses on basic knowledge related to dinosaurs, such as biological evolution, fossils, geological ages, dinosaur evolution and classification, etc.; the second part mainly introduces various types of dinosaur fossils from Dashanpu; the third part is the dinosaur burial site, where a large-scale excavation site is displayed to the public. Shenhai Ancient Salt Well and Salt Industry History Museum: Shenhai Ancient Salt Well is located in Changyantang, Da'an District, Zigong City. It was dug in the third year of the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty (1823) and is the first well over a kilometer deep in China that was drilled using the 'impact drilling method'. It still retains the well frame and winch, and you can appreciate the ancient salt well style. Shenhai Ancient Salt Well is also the first well in the world that is over a kilometer deep. The Salt Industry History Museum is located at No. 107 Jiefang East Road, Ziliujing District, Zigong City. It was built in 1959 and is one of the earliest salt industry museums established in the history of China's museum development. It is currently the only salt industry history museum in China. The main content of the museum is the collection, research, display, and protection of China's salt industry historical relics, mainly well salt. The museum is composed of two ancient buildings, one is the Xiqin Guild Hall and its affiliated buildings, which are national key cultural relics protection units; the other is the Wangye Temple, a cultural relics protection unit in Sichuan Province. Lantern Park: The Lantern Park is located at No. 6 Gongyuan Road, Ziliujing District, Zigong City. It covers an area of 103,000 square meters, of which the water area is 7,500 square meters. It is a comprehensive cultural park that integrates gardens and amusement. The park has a famous Lantern Museum. The Lantern Museum is currently the only professional museum in China about lantern culture. It is located in the Lantern Park in Zigong City. The building is themed on lanterns, and the shape is a combination of overlapping square geometric shapes. It is a group of large-scale palace lantern-shaped architectural art groups composed of cantilevered palace lantern-shaped corner windows and round and prismatic lantern windows embedded in the wall. Ziliujing Old Street: Located in Ziliujing District, Zigong City, the old city center, its range extends from the roadside well to Huojing Tuo, with a total length of 1.5 kilometers. It is an ancient salt road for transporting well salt in the old days. The buildings in the old street are all in the style of southern Sichuan residences from the late Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. There are undulating ordinary small buildings scattered on the stone slab road, and there are also large households with deep courtyards scattered among them. It is an ideal place for seeking seclusion and reminiscing about the past, and for leisure and vacation. The main attractions include the Brine Sky Stick, the Ancient Dragon Well, the Old Street Archway, the Roadside Well, the Stone Slab Street, the Salt Merchant Furniture Exhibition Hall, the Yiyuan, the Ziliujing Painting Workshop, the Ziliujing Site, etc. Pingqiao Waterfall: 'China's only natural city waterfall', Pingqiao Waterfall, is China's only naturally formed waterfall in the city, 'Traveling all over the world, it is rare to see a waterfall in the city', Pingqiao Waterfall is a business card of Gongjing District, Zigong. Since the Han Zhang Emperor (75-88 AD), it has been flowing through the city, and it has a history of more than 1950 years. 'Food is in China, taste is in Sichuan', when it comes to Sichuan cuisine, people who know how to eat and understand food will definitely not think of Chengdu, but Zigong and Leshan. The essence of Leshan cuisine is snacks, and the essence of Zigong cuisine is big dishes. There is a saying that Salt Gang dishes dominate the culinary world, Fresh pot rabbit, explosive vegetables, boiled beef, diving fish, as the origin of 'Salt Gang dishes', Zigong cuisine is as amazing as its lantern festival, and it is so enjoyable that it is called a good deal. The famous boiled beef originated in Zigong, and it is said that no rabbit can walk out of Zigong alive.