Part Four: Sea Salt & Yancheng City

Part Four: Sea Salt & Yancheng City

Seawalls bear the memories of generations of people; winding rivers carry the life code of a city. Mankind’s attention to the sea can be traced back to a much older age even before the invention of making salt from seawater. Faced with the vast surging sea, the ancestors gathered on the open and flat sea beach, using the mudflats and created a new chapter in the history of Chinese sea salt industry. They built seawalls, tidal channels and salt routes, established salt pavilions, which assembled into a lot of salt fields, then into towns and cities. Yancheng, as the only prefecture-level city in the name of "salt" in China, runs through the history of sea salt development for more than two thousand years, and has been seen as a city of sea salt invested with sea salt culture.