Let's visit the Zigong Salt Industry History Museum together, you'll regret it if you don't come~

The Zigong Salt Industry History Museum is a professional museum of the history of science and technology in China, and it is also a national first-class museum, located in Ziliujing District of Zigong City, Sichuan Province, on the bank of Fuxi River at the foot of Longfeng Mountain.

The museum was established in 1959, and the site is the Xiqin Guild Hall built in the first year of the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty (1736). This is a guild hall built by Shaanxi salt merchants with collected funds, integrating the architectural styles of the Ming and Qing dynasties and folk buildings. Well-preserved steles, wood carvings, stone carvings, and clay sculptures are physical specimens for the study of social life, economic conditions, and religious art in the Qing Dynasty before the Opium War.

The Zigong Salt Industry Museum has a collection of 18,214 movable cultural relics, and the basic display includes the history of well salt technology in China, the geological display of the Zigong salt industry, and the history of salt tax in Zigong.

The museum has a total of 1,975 sets of cultural relics related to the development of well salt, including historical documents, literature, and archival materials. Among them, there are 426 sets of historical relics, 730 sets of salt history relics, and 819 sets of specimen fossils. A total of 431 sets have been identified as precious cultural relics, including 55 sets of first-class cultural relics.

The museum's collection of 503 pieces of traditional drilling and well repair tools is the only relatively complete group of ancient percussion drilling tools preserved in China. These tools of different periods, forms, and purposes reflect the well salt technology and craftsmanship created by generations of salt workers, marking the development of China's drilling technology. The museum's collection of well stove management contracts, rock mouth books, and account books from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China period are of value for the study of the history of science and technology and socio-economic history.

Post by OliverChamberlain59 | Apr 11, 2024