Where is the place where salt is produced in Sichuan?

The place where Sichuan produces salt is Zigong City.

Zigong salt is a famous specialty of ziliujing district, Zigong City, Sichuan Province, and it is an indispensable seasoning in Sichuan cuisine. Zigong has been mining well salt for 2000 years. According to historical records, salt workers in past dynasties drilled more than 3000 wells/kloc-0 in Zigong area, and some wells even exceeded 1000 meters in depth.

Even if the average depth is 300 meters, this figure is equivalent to drilling more than 400 Mount Everest. By the end of 20 19, working people had dug more than 3000 salt wells/kloc-0 in a narrow area of 55 square kilometers in Zigong, producing more than 70 million tons of salt and more than 30 billion cubic meters of natural gas.

Zigongjing salt culture

Zigong Yanbang cuisine is a representative of Sichuan cuisine, with unique flavor and cooking skills, which originated from the rich precipitation of salt culture. Together with Xiaohebang, Shanghebang, Xiahebang and other Sichuan dishes, it has become a world-renowned Sichuan-style unique food culture, so the word "food in Sichuan, taste in Zigong" comes from this.

The prosperity of salt industry not only created the reputation of Zigong, the salt capital, but also bred, inherited and gradually formed an important Sichuan cuisine faction-Zigong salt gang cuisine. Zigong salt, as a special raw material of salted vegetables, has a unique flavor because of the unique diet of salt merchants and salt workers. Well salt culture is one of the three representatives of Dengcheng, the hometown of dinosaurs in China, and Zigong, the Millennium salt capital.

Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Zigong Well Salt