Where is Salt Spring located?

In Wuxi County at the southern foot of Daba Mountain in Sichuan Province, there is a hunting temple known as "the crown of ancient temples in eastern Sichuan." There is a magical legend about the origin of this temple. A long time ago, a hunter chased a white deer that looked like snow in the forest. He chased it to the temple. When the hunter was preparing to shoot, the white deer suddenly disappeared. A silver halo appeared in front of the hunter's eyes. . The hunter took a closer look and found that there was a cave in front of him, and a clean spring water gushes from the entrance of the cave. The hunter happily drank the water. Unexpectedly, the water tasted extremely salty. It turned out that it was a salt spring. From then on, people called this salt spring "White Deer Spring" and built a hunting temple.

According to historical records, salt springs had been developed and utilized more than 1,000 years ago during the Eastern Han Dynasty, and people knew how to boil the water in the salt springs into salt. There is also a local legend: the peasant uprising army led by Li Zicheng in the late Ming Dynasty used this place as a base area. While the uprising army attacked the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers, they also diverted springs to boil salt for military use. During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the scale of spring salt production was already large, with 336 salt stoves and 1,081 frying pans, known as "Ten Thousand Stoves of Salt and Smoke".

At present, the Wuxi Salt Factory has been built here, and the production scale has been expanded. The spring salt produced is sold in eastern Sichuan, western Hubei and other places.