A thousand years of living history! This place is known as God's Palette!

Along the Lancang River, the ancient Tea-Horse Road, and the thousand-year-old salt fields.
In the wind, I seemed to hear the call of 1,300 years.
The thousand-year-old salt fields in Yanjing are the only salt fields in the world that have completely preserved the most original manual salt-drying method. They have a history of more than 1,300 years. Located beside National Highway 214, on the east and west sides of the Lancang River, they are the only surviving original artificial salt-drying landscape on the "Ancient Tea-Horse Road" and are known as "the work of the sun and the wind."
Yanjing is called "Chakalo" in Tibetan. Historically, Yanjing was the main road from Tibet Tubo to Nanzhao in Yunnan, an important salt administration town in eastern Tibet, and the only way from the "Ancient Tea-Horse Road" to Tibet.
According to legend, King Gesar and King Mugan of Naxi fought the "Battle of Qiangling" over the salt well. In the end, King Gesar defeated King Mugan of Naxi and occupied the salt well, and captured King Mugan's son Youla alive. In the late Tubo Dynasty, Youla became the Naxi minister, responsible for managing the salt wells.
The main salt producing area is Naxi Township, where there are more than 320 households engaged in salt production and more than 3,000 salt fields.

Post by Mitchell_16 Daniel | Jan 14, 2025