In recent years, Yuncheng adheres to the integrated development of cultural tourism, deeply excavates and inherits excellent traditional cultures such as ancestral culture, salt culture, filial piety culture and Guan Gong culture, and strives to turn the cultural tourism resource endowment into industrial development wealth, vigorously promotes the high-quality development of the city's cultural tourism industry, and builds a well-known tourism city in an all-round way, which has played a positive demonstration and leading role.
Yuncheng Salt Lake Viewing Platform
From "using salt" to "looking at the lake", the new function of Millennium Salt Lake transformation
In the Salt Lake in early summer, groups of snipes spread their wings and skimmed the lake. Zhongtiao Mountain, blue sky and white clouds are reflected on the lake, which complement each other with colorful Salt Lake, and so on, forming a vivid landscape.
Beautiful scenery of Yuncheng Salt Lake
Yuncheng Salt Lake used to be the producing area of edible salt and inorganic salt. With a history of more than 4,600 years of salt mining, the Salt Lake is located at the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, with an area of 132 square kilometers. It is one of the three largest inland Salt Lake of sodium sulfate type in the world.
Historically, in the process of salt production, human beings divided the Salt Lake into pieces, and these small lakes with different sizes and shapes were scattered all over the salt lake.
With the extensive development of sea salt and well salt, since 1980s, Millennium Salt Lake has gradually stopped producing edible salt and turned to develop chemical products such as mirabilite and anhydrous sodium sulfate.
In accordance with the principle of "giving priority to ecology, giving priority to protection and moderately developing", in September 2020, Yuncheng completely stopped industrial production activities within the Salt Lake. The Millennium Salt Lake is changing to the “green development” of ecological protection, landscape remodeling, industrial transformation and global tourism, and speeding up the construction of a well-known demonstration zone for cultural tourism and recreation and an international tourist destination.
Exterior of Hedong Lake Salt Museum
This exhibition hall, which has concentrated the salt culture of Yuncheng for more than 4,000 years, is close to the north bank of Salt Lake, and the Hedong Lake Salk Museum embedded in the ancient city wall is quite distinctive. The museum is the only professional museum in China that fully displays the ancient salt culture. Thousands of years of salt transportation history has created a rich salt culture in the pond, leaving cultural protection units represented by the salt pond forbidden wall, the ancient salt road in Yuban and Chishen Temple.
Ancient salt scene displayed by Hedong Lake Salt Museum
Today, this five-step salt production method, which has been passed down for thousands of years, has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. It is understood that the ancient legal salt is being planned to be restored and will become a tourist attraction. When people visit the Salt Lake, they can see this traditional skill intuitively.
Yuncheng is based on unique mountain and river resources and regional advantages, combined with the establishment of ecological protection and high-quality development demonstration zones in the Yellow River Basin, scientifically planned according to local conditions, and strived to build five “green corridors” along the Yellow River, Fen River, Sushui River, Zhongtiao Mountain and Emeiling. Between the mountains and rivers, a green ecological background has been built, which integrates ecology, humanities, leisure and agricultural tourism.
Yuncheng people have pure and noble character. Originating from Hedong, it breeds ancient and modern Chinese civilization and magnificent natural wonders, and has accumulated a unique tourism "rich mine" for Yuncheng.
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