Location: South of Yuncheng City
Area: 132 km2
Circumference: about 60 kilometers
Alias: Salt Lake? Yinhu
Features: China has one of the famous salt-producing areas.
Yuncheng Yanchi is adjacent to Zhongtiao Mountain in the south, Emei Mountain in the north, Anyi in the east and Jiezhou in the west. It is long from east to west and narrow from north to south, with a circumference of about 60 kilometers and a total area of 132 square kilometers. It is shaped like a natural bathtub. The previous generation of poets called it "Ping Pu Tuma Lian".
Yuncheng Yanchi, also known as Salt Lake and Silver Lake. Located in the south of Yuncheng, at the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain, beside the Feishui River. Total area 130 km2, consisting of duck pond, salt pond and nitrate pond. The salt produced in the salt pond is made of brine by sunlight, with white color, pure taste, few impurities and many kinds of sodium and calcium substances. Yuncheng Yanchi is one of the famous salt-producing areas in China.
In ancient times, Hedong was a rich place, so all tribes wanted to occupy Hedong, but because Hedong was under the jurisdiction of the ancient Yellow Emperor, they all respected the Yellow Emperor, but they were afraid of his power. At that time, in Hedong area, Chiyou and his 8 1 brothers grew up and prepared to occupy Hedong area. They were born in heaven, but they grew up and became arrogant and cruel. They were not willing to have only one territory, so they took a fancy to the territory of the Yellow Emperor. At first, they fought against Emperor Yan and killed 5000 soldiers of Emperor Yan. The victory made them even more proud. At this time, Chiyou was also calculating that if the Yellow Emperor was destroyed in World War I, he could dominate the world. When he heard the news of the engagement of the Yellow Emperor, he was overjoyed and ordered all his brothers to rush out.
? At the beginning of the war, Chiyou felt different and found that the weapons used by the Yellow Emperor's military forces were no longer the fragile bamboo stones. I couldn't help but be surprised, so I ordered all my brothers to spit a cloudy fog together. At the moment, the ground is overcast, freezing and foggy, and I can't tell things apart. Xuan Nv untied the fire dragon and saw 8 1 fire dragon, one of which surrounded a Chiyou brother. This is a fatal confrontation between Yin and Yang. Chiyou spits as the essence of the lunar moon, which can extinguish the fire of the five mountains; The fire dragon sprays the true fire of the sun, which can melt the ice in the four seas; It's hard to say who is the winner at present. Xuan Nv can't see the dragon at the moment, and let go of Lei Shou. These 72 horses, with nine horses as a team and eight teams apart, stood in all directions according to gossip, Kan, Gen, Zhen, Xun, Li, Kun and Hui, and launched a thunder together. Brother Chiyou, who was in the middle of a fierce battle, suddenly felt the thunder and lightning in all directions, which was deafening and immediately flustered. Brother Chiyou can still hold himself up because of the lunar qi. It's just that the soldiers of the Yellow Emperor were covered with turbid air in the battle and could only see within five feet of their eyes. At this time, the Yellow Emperor ordered the mysterious guide car to be launched. I saw a little fairy in the car, looking at the south, stretching out a finger, pointing to a piece of glow, breaking through the turbid air and pointing straight to the direction of six stars. Brother Chiyou saw that all spells had failed, and quickly began to run for their lives. The soldiers of the Yellow Emperor were full of energy and fought bravely. The near ones were killed with swords, and the far ones were shot with crossbows. All 80 Chiyou brothers were killed. Seeing that it was all over, Chi You flew out of Jizhou to look for his lair in Jinnan. The Yellow Emperor led the troops to chase, thunder rumbled in all directions, and fire dragons danced. Seeing that the general trend had gone, Chi You ran into the "Five Old Peaks" in a rage and smashed the southwest corner of the peak like a knife. The hit fragments flew northeast and landed on the Yellow River, blocking the eastward river. It was not until Dayu controlled the water that he was split with an axe, forming Sanmenxia of the Yellow River. Chiyou fainted to the ground, and the Yellow Emperor took the opportunity to order the fire dragon to grab Chiyou's head, neck and limbs respectively. At one command, Chiyou was torn into several pieces, and blood flowed all over the piedmont lake.
? From then on, there were no fish and shrimp in the lake, and a kind of "salt" was born. This lake is made up of the blood of Chiyou. At the turn of autumn and winter, it is often dark red. In the dismembered land of Chiyou, the Yellow Emperor ordered hundreds of workers to build a city to suppress evil spirits, and named it Chiyou, hence the name Chiyou. Chiyou is a big man, lying in Hubei, turning loess for a long time, and becoming four miles of Huangtu Mountain. According to legend, it was the place where Chiyou was buried. This village was renamed Cong Shan Village, which means to turn over a new leaf, abandon evil and be good. According to legend, Chiyou died for thousands of years and then came back to life. In the auspicious symbol period of Song Dynasty (1008 ~1kloc-0/2), Chiyou became a monster with blue face and fangs, which harmed the people. After a fierce battle, people prayed to Guan Gong to surrender the demon and let Guan Gong borrow it. However, because the farmer's soul was not returned on time, the farmer's body was burnt by the scorching sun and could not be reborn, so he had to bury it. The grave site is the original Wangzhuang, and the homonym is hatred and waste. There is a strange custom in Chiyou Village and the former Wangzhuang near Yanchi: never respect Guan Gong and never put on Guan Gong's drama.
Chiyou was destroyed, and Huangdi and Yandi joined hands to pacify the world. Copper used as weapons was cast into hoes, plows, hoes, sickles and other agricultural tools to encourage farming and reproduction, thus becoming the ancestors of the Chinese nation.
In ancient times, salt was monopolized by heaven, and human beings could not eat salt. They are all listless, sallow and emaciated, and have no vitality. The Jade Emperor was merciful and ordered a salt unicorn to be exiled to the world.
Salt Kirin landed slowly in the air, like a golden ribbon fluttering. It floats across the beautiful south of the Yangtze River, unwilling to fall; I don't want to go down when I drift across the grassland. I don't know how long it has been floating, but it is still playing in the air.
In spring and March, the glaciers thawed, and groups of carp went upstream, forming a beautiful scenery. Longmen is as narrow as a gate, and the water is fast. If you can cross Jackie Chan, otherwise you will pay back the money. Salt Kirin floated here, attracted by this unique sight, and fell down, occupying a rock beach at the entrance of Huang Helong. When the locals saw it, they thought it was not a donkey, a horse, a pig or a sheep. They all thought it was a monster from somewhere. They picked up sticks and stones to smash it. This salt unicorn left there with tears, and became today's unicorn island on the saline-alkali beach at the Longmen estuary of Hejin.
The injured salt unicorn slowly walked south to Zhang Weng Village in Wanrong, and couldn't walk any further. It stayed at the gate of Zhang Weng village for a few days. The villagers didn't know what this monster was, so they asked many people to beat it away with poles. Kirin ran to the foot of Nanshan after being injured, but she couldn't run any more. He just lay there urinating, and the place became a sparkling salt pool. Zhang Wengren regretted it very much, so he dug a pool where Kirin once lay, and named it Kirin Pool. Strange to say, the water in this pool has always been clear, and it tastes cool and delicious, sweet and mellow. The aftertaste is long and can last for half a day. Zhang Wengren also heard that this salt unicorn came down from Hejin Longmen to see "Carp yue longmen". Just to the south of Qilin Pool, a nine-dragon wall with a height of 10 feet and a width of 10 feet was built, with colored glazed tiles on the top as a souvenir. There is a unicorn flying with four hooves at the four corners of the Nine Dragon Wall. It is said that no matter from which angle you look, you can see nine dragons and four Kirin dancing in front of your eyes, full of gas field and very attractive. This is the beautiful legend of "beating four jars of Kirin".
Yan Qilin continued to walk south with steps. On this day, it came to Changle beach, learned about the state and recalled what happened these days. In addition, it was seriously injured. It shed tears sadly, and the tears fell to the ground and turned into white salt particles. The wind and rain turned into salt fog, which spread all over Changle Beach, so Changle Beach became saline-alkali land.
It continued to go south. When it was exhausted, it was blocked by the tall Zhongtiao Mountain and had to lie down in the basin at the northern foot of Zhongtiao Mountain. When the Jade Emperor learned about it, he was particularly uncomfortable and moved with compassion. He asked the wind tunnel on Zhongtiao Mountain to blow his hair and massage him, and asked the rain teacher on Gu Feng in Wanrong County to give him a bath in the rain, so that he could relieve fatigue and have a good sleep. This rain teacher in Fengbo blew a rain for 7749 days. As a result, the salt unicorn not only couldn't walk out in the wind and rain, but also melted in. As a result, it became the famous Yuncheng Salt Pond.
In Susha village near Yanchi, there is a shepherd named Yanzong. He was the first person to find salt in the salt pond. He fished it back, put it on a plate and tasted a strange smell. Not to mention, his sons born for several years in a row are taller and more handsome. Therefore, salt ponds are known and used by people. There is also a saying called "Kirin sends the son", which built a temple for the first salt pie who ate salt, and built it in the temple village near Anyi. Miaocun got its name from this. Salt Gang has become the oldest Salt god among salt ponds, salt merchants and salt industry. People worship it, pay homage to it, burn incense for many years, and pray that Salt god can benefit mankind.
There is a folk legend that the god cow makes a pool. A long time ago, the sacred cow in the Heavenly Palace was driven out of the world because it ate the salt of the Jade Emperor. It wandered to the water town in the south of the Yangtze River and the grassland outside the Great Wall, trying to build a salt pond for people, but people there didn't take it in. Later, it reached the foot of Zhongtiao Mountain near the Yellow River and was warmly welcomed by the people in this area. In return for his kindness, he lay down and turned his body into a wide salt lake. The protagonist in this legend is a cow, and people use their most familiar livestock to explain the origin of the salt pond. At the same time, it reflects the importance of cattle in farming society and the close relationship between human beings and oregano.