As the saying goes: when playing shape. "Seven things up in the morning, oil, salt and leading a poor sauce, vinegar tea" Song Fancheng large trunk for nine years (1173) known static River House "force Please Chao" Cloud: "an official sell salt for the first issue "Huang Zuo Ming Dynasty" sparse, "says:".. Guangdong and Guangxi military forces, legislation has only been Eliphaz of salt, "" western soldiers rates, borrow salt transport. "shows the status and role of salt in people's livelihood, political and military.

Wuzhou in Guangxi Li salt. Han Cangwu County has set up yanguan, there Cao Song Division, Ming Yan Yun Division set up. From Guangdong to buy salt with a "Trojan feet boat" transported to Wuzhou, Guilin waiting boat (the boat) to forward. "Among the mad rush to Ling wave waves, running in frost under the sun", a one-year operation. Guilin is a large salt Street transit station in western Guangdong salt. Salt transport fleet from Wuzhou to Guilin Guijiang dating back from the water line to the East Gate Spring Gate riverbank, salt became unloading dock; about 500 meters along the salt storage area to become the land by the salt, salt and gradually developed into the stack salt Street. Boating set salts, such as forest mast masts. A row of brick houses built according to bank on the potential. By part of the river is low-lying, mostly salt storage warehouse, salt pack to pile into the wall; the street side was paved and housing. Because hands are wholesale all day long, salt packet access, so the salt house and street to street to make salt water immersion, works night and wet, emitting a strong waves saline taste. The store has a piece of black cloth folks and porters Scarf, shoulder pads and Hanjin dual-purpose, always full of stains white prints; because salt contains alkali, crude palm of their pair of white chap. Salt has the effect of disinfection, sterilization, local long-term impregnated brine, mosquitoes can not breed, which is perhaps the salt Street area mosquito-free summer of reasons.

Guilin salt street to the ancient system of political safety. Yuan positive years (1341-1368), the Gini NIE child to the Central Secretariat manager of governmental affairs and chief administrative Lianfang Shi Su, red scarves and overhaul for the defense of Guilin city wall, "then donate Salary sea salt trade, was termed times interest. typography funds, two hundred and two thousand silver dollars, are taking advantage to salt. "in normal times, in addition to the direct supply of salt Street downtown salt, also serves Northern Lingchuan, Lingui, Yi Ning, Longsheng, Yongfu, Baishou and Hung Yen, Chonju, Guanyang, resources and other counties (Pingle, Lipu, Gongcheng County are mostly supplied by a distribution Pingle salt shop). In the mid-century, namely Guilin during the fall and early recovery, due to the destruction of war and the Japanese invasion of China Yan Yun broken apart, salt Guilin Street is also in ruins, so saith to Northern residents with no salt, salt was a moment of your such as gold; salt and bear robbed events have occurred, residents of mountain salt is particularly difficult. Thus they were forced to boil salt folk medicine move. Instant grow due to moisture take the foot of a white mold (commonly known as NOx) housing toilet and farm soil below the urine receiving long-term water immersion (the water containing traces of salt in urine), large iron frame raging fire brewed, commonly known as NOx salt. However, its greatly reduced salty taste, put a spoonful of salt normally cooked dishes, with the fold of the nitrate.

Xing'an County Xing'an salt port located southwest of the old rule 3 in the Lingqu the West Bank, the name of this village three miles steep, ancient salt port. Song result of the above, Hubei and Hunan Hampshire, Yongzhou Second House to make food Huai salt, pass the Yangtze River, Dongting Lake and shipped south. Xing'an salt and salt from the port alone, Guangdong Guilin salt transport supply Hing Street dial, full, irrigation, owned several counties, considered a "secondary salt Station" it. Between Yuan and Ming, JAC red scarves on, Huai salt transport disruptions; and Guangxi authorities strive to be "military gate salt benefit", and supported by the emperor to the court, then eastern of salt "the beginning of the western Hunan carry on. "as Hongwu twenty-eight years (1395), Don Bingbushangshu duo led troops conquest Nandan area farmers' revolt, the court also ordered the Ministry of Supervision messengers Yan Zhen straight through nearly ten thousand people mobilized soldiers and civilians repair Lingqu, their pay and cost of the project are to rely on salt tax, so the court ordered the Guangdong two lifting division shipped 850,000 lead salt (lead per weight 1750 kg, 14 minutes package) to Guilin. Most transported to and from Guilin Larix salt port, then transported along Xiang and post road Hengyang, Changsha. Thereby Changsha, Baoqing, scale, four House and Chen Yong, said the two states, both the edible salt in Guangdong. Xing'an salt port became the Lijiang River, Xiangjiang salt transport hub. Three Mile consequent steep village street along the canal was built, shop in a row, come to the boat, he flourished. Until the late 1930s Xiang-Gui railway, road opened to traffic after Guihuang Gong, Lingqu water transport gradually Depression, Xing'an salt port station is also replaced.

Today, three years after the catastrophe and the surviving steep village preserved of three old salt shop. Old salt shop is located in the southernmost street, fine tile gable, as the architectural style of the Ming and Qing. Road through the door Lingqu pier, wharf edge of unloading salt weighing wherever he goes, and all paved with slate and stone. Because salt water has long been "bitten" eclipse of reason, mostly slate sinus erosion, hemp skin disease scabies, like a washboard well-worn. Wherever he goes also left behind a specially called 100 kilos heavy stone weights of large salt used, the "Cultural Revolution" in fear as the "four olds" destroyed village to sink into Lingqu, long-term weed mud was lost. Until March 28, 2002 by the department of cultural relics unearthed. Now on display in the entrance hall of the temple Sixian Lingqu park.