Yancheng Haiyan [Jiangsu Yancheng Specialty]

What is Yancheng sea salt? Authentic specialty of Yancheng, Jiangsu: Yancheng sea salt

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Basic Introduction to Salt in Yancheng

Beautiful Scenery of Yancheng City (15 photos) Yancheng established Yandu County in the 4th year of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty's Yuanshou era (119 BC). At that time, there were salt boiling pavilions and salt rivers everywhere, and "du" meant the river that transports salt. In the 7th year of the Yixi reign of Emperor An of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (411 AD), it was renamed Yancheng County, named after the "salt fields all around the city". Yancheng has gone through more than two thousand years of historical sedimentation and exudes a rich sea salt culture everywhere. In ancient times, it was renowned in China for its abundant production of "Huai salt" and was called the "Huai Yi land". As early as the Warring States period, it was said that "boiling the sea for salt", and "Records of the Grand Historian" recorded that "there is sea salt in the East China Sea". During the Qin and Han dynasties, it became a prosperous place for fishing and salt production due to the promotion of benefits through boiling the sea and transportation through canals. During the Tang Dynasty, the Huainan Salt Field, which was known for its wealth in the southeast and half of its border revenue, had 123 salt pavilions in Yancheng alone. During the Baoying period of the Tang Dynasty, there were Hailing Supervisor and Yancheng Supervisor in the area, with over one million stones of salt boiled every year. At that time, Yancheng had become an important salt production center along the southeast coast. Yancheng is truly a 'salt' city. Among the place names in various regions, names related to salt production management such as "Tuan", "Zao", "Zong", "Zuo", and "Cang" are still preserved to this day. 'Tuan' is a production organization in the salt area, and the production form of stove households' gathering and frying together. Each salt field has several groups, and each group has several stove households. In the past, the place name "group" was mostly distributed in Dongtai and Dafeng in the ancient Huainan salt area, such as Nantuan, Xituan, Biantuan, etc. Before the urban area of Muyan, Xituan Town in Dafeng is still preserved, and there are 18 villages and 48 natural village groups in the city whose place names are related to "tuan". Zao "is an important facility for the people of Zao to boil salt. There are six towns and villages in the area named after" zao ", including Touzao, Sanzao Town, and Sizao in Funing. In addition, 85 villages and 368 natural village groups are also named after" zao ". 'General' refers to the unit where the salt field residents live in concentrated communities. In the early Ming Dynasty, there was a large-scale "Hongwu evacuation" where immigrants came to the desert coast to burn salt. In order to manage the scattered stove people along the coast, a total of several sites were set up, in order of priority. During the reign of Emperor Jiaqing of the Qing Dynasty, Dongtai Fu'an Salt Field had 30 headquarters. Today, there are still place names such as "First General", "Second General", and "Third General" preserved in coastal towns and villages. There are also 7 villages and 37 natural village groups within the territory named after "General". Cang, also known as Salt Warehouse, was the location of the Wuyou Salt Field in the town of Biancang in Tinghu District, which was famous for its withered branches and peonies. There are also Dongtai Sancang Town, 11 villages, and 18 natural village groups named after "warehouse" within the territory. '」' is one of the main production tools for cooking salt by kitchen workers in the late Ming and Qing dynasties. It is similar to an iron pot, slightly shallower than the pot, with a diameter of three feet and a depth of 3-4 inches. There are towns and villages named after "」" in the area, including Caoyi Town in Dongtai and Panyi Town in Dafeng. There are also 6 villages and 13 natural village groups in the city named after "」"

Yancheng sea salt production area covers 107.37 square kilometers of mudflat in Xinyang Port and Huangshagang Town, Sheyang County, Yancheng City, Jiangsu Province, 78.5 square kilometers of mudflat in Dongguan Village and Yuhua Village, Binhuai Town, Binhai County, and 210 square kilometers of mudflat in Chenjiagang Town and Huanghai Farm, Xiangshui County