【Guess the Scenic Spots by HaiChuan】Drawing sacred water from a thousand meters deep in the Earth’s core; names that are pictographic and often mispronounced
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Let’s learn some characters. How is this character pronounced? It’s pronounced ‘s’ The image is from an online screenshot
This kind of rack used to be a characteristic of this city
The divine water drawn from underground is used to create necessities for people’s lives; without it, people lose their vitality
Not enough knowledge in academics; mainly know: L
That must be well salt – the world’s first salt well that reached a depth of a thousand meters
When visiting Zigong, in addition to seeing the dinosaur light show, another must-see attraction is the salt wells. I remember that in the 1980s, when I was there, tall towers could be seen scattered throughout the area; most of these were well structures built from wood and bamboo. Nowadays, most of those structures no longer exist. The Shenhai Well is one of the few salt wells that have been preserved, and it is a tourist attraction where one can observe the entire process of extracting brine and producing salt. At the Shenhai Well, you will be amazed by everything you see. It was dug in the 15th year of the Daoguang reign of the Qing dynasty (1835), with a depth of 1,000.142 meters. All the equipment, such as the well frame and winches, was constructed using cedar wood, bamboo, bamboo strips, and hemp ropes to hold it together. Deep wells of thousands of meters are dug by hand or with mechanical power. And while drilling salt wells, people discovered natural gas as well. After the brine (saltwater) was extracted, it was used together with the natural gas present in it to evaporate the water and produce salt. What’s most astonishing is the ingenuity of the people from Zigong – they found a way to remove impurities from the brine by adding soy milk during the boiling process; in other words, they used the same method used for making tofu to eliminate impurities from the brine. Thus, in the salt-making workshops at Shenhai Well, you can see soybeans being ground. Tip: At the Shenhai Well, you can buy some seasoning salt and pickling salt.