Hainan Island Salt [Hainan Specialty]

What is Hainan Island salt? Authentic Hainan specialty: Hainan Island salt

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Basic Introduction to Hainan Island Salt

Hainan Island Salt is a specialty of Hainan Province and a national geographical indication product of China

Environment of origin

Hainan Island is a subtropical area with long sunshine and strong wind. The annual average temperature is 22 to 26 ℃, the annual evaporation is 2200-2400 mm, and the annual rainfall is 1500-2000 mm. It is one of the Aral Sea areas in the world. The coastline around the island is 1528 kilometers long, the mudflat is vast, and there are many harbors

The ancients have long experienced the saying 'without salt, swelling will occur'. If a person does not eat salt for a long time, their whole body will swell and their limbs will become weak. The primitive inhabitants of Hainan Island attempted to cook food by picking up white crystals that had been sun dried into thin sheets in reef pits. Unexpectedly, the food seasoned with them tasted salty and delicious, with a doubled texture. Later, they summarized some methods for extracting salt, which were to simply pour brine that had naturally evaporated to a certain concentration into a stone pit, expose it to sunlight, or boil it in a pot to harvest salt. As Xu Shen said in "Shuowen Jiezi": "Salt is brine. Born is called brine, and life is called salt

In the Tang Dynasty, the production areas of Lingnan salt were five states and five counties, including Xinhui in Guangzhou, Haiyang in Chaozhou, Yilun in Danzhou, Qiongshan in Qiongzhou, and Ningyuan in Zhenzhou, with Hainan Island accounting for three of them. In the first year of the Qianyuan era (758 AD), counties such as Qiongshan, Ningyuan, and Zhenzhou had salt, and the people near the sea boiled seawater to make salt, which was given far and wide. Tang Zhou, a native of Qiongshan Prefecture (now Haikou City, Hainan Province), pointed out in the "Zhengde Qiongtai Chronicle" that "salt policy was specialized in management, and the family (dynasty) has been following it ever since. Reading the Tang Geography Chronicle, he learned about the salt in Qiongshan. The so-called 'salt policy', in layman's terms, refers to the registry of salt consuming populations. Qiu Jun said, "Since Guan Zhongxing implemented the salt policy to seize the benefits of the people, the salt ban was initiated." Therefore, it is speculated that since the Tang Dynasty, the Qiongya government may have also compiled a register of salt users to monopolize salt profits. But as Tang Zhou said, "Counties such as Qiongningyuan and Yilun were each annotated with salt, but there were no rules." During the Song Dynasty, Guangnan established two routes, east and west. Guangdong Road was divided into four salt producing regions and ten non salt producing regions, while Guangxi Road was divided into nine salt producing regions (including Qiong, Ya, Dan, Wan'an in Hainan) and sixteen non salt producing regions. Starting from the fourth year of Kaibao (971 AD) when the Song army pacified Lingnan, Guangnan began to monopolize salt. On the one hand, the government purchases salt from the people without providing the salt base, and instead "exempts labor or reduces taxes". On the other hand, the policy of official transportation and official sales is implemented. However, historical records show that there are often flexible actions between officials, merchants, and customers in Hainan

In the second year of the Republic of China (1913), the salt transport commissioner of Guangdong and Guangxi, citing the lack of specialized management for salt affairs on the island and hindering salt administration, established a salt field in Sanya Port, Yaxian County, with one salt field governor and one field assistant. Nine inspectors were appointed in each county to oversee transportation, sales, anti smuggling, taxation, and weighing. Later, due to unforeseen circumstances, they relocated to Haikou. In November 1922, Sun Yat sen appointed Song Ziwen as the manager of salt affairs in Guangdong and Guangxi, and began to regain the right to collect salt taxes in Guangdong