Well salt, well salt. Unlike sea salt and lake salt contained in water, well salt is buried underground. Drilling well is the first step to mine well salt. Zigong is a famous well salt producing area in Sichuan Province, and it has a long history of drilling wells to extract brine and make salt. Since the Eastern Han Dynasty, the production of salt has lasted for more than two thousand years. The name of Zigong comes from two salt wells, Ziliujing and Dagong Well.
Well salt. Zigong is a famous salt capital in China for thousands of years. It is an important salt town with a long history and culture. Well salt was produced in the Eastern Han Dynasty and has been the center of well salt in China for more than two thousand years. Sichuan salt industry has a fine division of labor, complicated working procedures and large project cost and equipment investment from sinking wells, extracting brine, transporting brine to frying salt. It usually takes one or two to four or five years to open a well, at most ten or even decades.
Brief introduction of well salt development history;
The investors in well salt producing areas are mainly businessmen, especially Shaanxi and Shanxi. Most of them started from salt merchants and pawnbrokers. First, they started from controlling the transportation field of Sichuan salt and made a lot of profits through "renting, selling and selling on a commission basis". Then they further controlled the vast Sichuan salt sales ports, opened salt shops in various places and accumulated huge wealth. Finally, we will cooperate with local indigenous people to invest commercial capital in salt industry and turn it into industrial capital.
The salt workers who dig wells and burn stoves are mostly farmers who have lost the means of production and sold their labor in the form of labor for value. Among them, there are local aborigines, people from various counties in Sichuan, and refugees from Guizhou, Jiangxi, Shaanxi, Yunnan and other places, especially those who make a living by cooking stoves.