The town: sleeping in the Yangtze River where the "Millennium Yandu"

Two thousand years ago, the Han Emperor Liu Bang's general fan Kuai in Yunan hunting, chasing a rabbit, he found a spring, so Liu Bangming local hermit Fu Jia wells pumping cooking salt, then pull the cloud Ji Luzhu salt history curtain. Today, a mostly withThree GorgesReservoir submerged, only a few precious architectural is integrally into the Yunyang Metro preserved. Although the town disappeared from geographically, but in all this love of the land on the heart, forever.

����Rabbit directions, HW salt on male

The town, located in theChongqingThe eastern part of the upper reaches of Yangtze River "the first county" in Yunyang County, 37 kilometers from the county seat. There had a Yishanbangshui, simple and leisurely deep Town -- the town. Imagine, along the winding streets, walking on the uneven stone on the road, just like walked into an elegant ink: having an antique flavour loft, trees shade the house, paint mottled door, leisurely walk through the old, the children laugh and play chase...... Everything seemed so calm, let a person as if a generation had passed. The simple style of the old but stillShaanxiJian floor, the two or three tall chimneys, it still appears.AsiaThe first cable-stayed bridge and the running stream singing soup, in the sunset declares that the town had prosperous and brilliant.

The ancient town

Here was the dominating the Bashu, with fame spreading far and wide in ancient Yandu, between the world's oldest spring. Yun ji cooking salt, "born rabbit well" as a symbol. In 206 BC, HW Liu Bang to recruit Ba, Shu people "Sanqin" fan Kuai, rate by Dongxiang (this Xuanhan county) in Qu county (now Yunyang) could recruit Zhao xian. Fan Kuai in Yunan hunting, saw a white rabbit, white rabbit by and shoot, wounded fled into the grass. Fan Kuai grass looking for, find the crevice in a spring flows out slowly. Liu Bang and Kerry met hermit cave, she advised Liu Bang early set Sanqin big industry, Takazu Chikashi in the rotary wing, give Jia surname Fu, Fu Jia Ji cooking salt wells to. Fu Jia to make the people around gush surface natural salt, with debris Wai into wellhead, digging down, until the brine well, built the first cloud white brine well -- well, then pull the cloud Ji Luzhu salt history curtain.

Today the town deep in the Three Gorges area of the Yangtze River water

Fu Jia died, the women were instructed to shun halogen vein by digging nine salt wells, the well salt production is gradually expanding. Since then, people in succession cut hundreds of wells, up to a maximum of 185. According to the archaeological discovery, yun'an salt not under 500, the whole town is located in an abandoned well. Many wells in after several years of use, or as a result of brine diversion, or because the brine fades, or because of flood irrigation and abandoned. Only the white rabbit well after two thousand years and brine Fengyi, until 1987, the plant used Wanxian peak concentrated brine after they die in one's bed. Has made the tremendous contribution for the rabbit well salt, large aperture Asakai Shiusagi I is China's most ancient, the longest service life, the most well-preserved, occupies an important position in the history of the development of salt industry in China, has a very high historical value.

����As the development of salt, the salt of history for three thousand years

Salt is to maintain the basic material of human survival. In ancient times, salt is not only an important strategic materials, and is the main source of tax, successive rulers are firmly hold a money tree, enjoy its blessing. That day the salt from Hangozo to play, to be involved in the rise and fall of the dynasty historical whirlpool change, Zhengxing salt Xing, government perish, salt making. Salt industry and town dependent, and sharing weal and woe, ancient history, is a salt and sweat writing history.

The new town of Yunyang County in the Three Gorges Museum, there is a part of the town of old buildings

As early as the Han Dynasty, the imperial court in Qu could set Berkshire only salt, because salt by then, the County million Yi (jiuxianping) moved to the mouth soup (now the town of Yunyang), yun'an salt has begun to take shape, become the Three Gorges area was the largest industry. Early Tang Dynasty, the market has been formed here, then only about a hundred families, kitchen household more than a dozen, salt, more than 10 households, although the size is very small, but Xiajiang is also a rare. In the first year (785), the court set up in this supervisor of salt, the salt production in along the Yangtze River in the first place, the population increase, the booming town.

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