Approaching the Millennium Ancient Yantian

Recently, I was invited by a friend to visit the ancient Yantian. Millennium Ancient Yantian is located in Yantian Village, Yangpu Peninsula, Hainan, about 0/06 km away from Basuo Town, Dongfang City, where I am located, and the driving time is about 1 hour for 40 minutes.

After a simple breakfast, we set off while the weather was cool. It was a fine day, and the trees along the way were green and red against the blue sky and white clouds, which made people relaxed and happy. I want to sing loudly, but I'm afraid of disturbing peace and tranquility.

My friend knows my heart very well, and the car stereo plays Tao Di master Zong Cilang's "Original Scenery of My Hometown" at the right time. In the carriage filled with warm and humid sea breeze, I occasionally listen to music to close my eyes, occasionally stare at the mountains and rivers outside the window, and occasionally lose my temper when the car drives into Binhai Avenue and sees "stormy waves lapping the shore and rolling up thousands of piles of snow" not far away. I just leaned over and stuck my head out of the window and shouted at the sea ... completely relaxed and carefree all the way.

The car drove for about 100 minutes. After entering Baimajing Town of Danzhou City at the roundabout expressway, cheerful friends began to talk. He asked me first: "Where did the sea salt come from, sea water or mud?"

Knowing that my friend asked me on purpose, I answered him disapprovingly with my shallow common sense: "Salt comes from the sea." As soon as the voice fell, I saw my friend's mouth tilted and smiled evenly. The friend immediately said airily, "Salt comes from mud." My mouth is awkwardly shaped like an "O" in Zhang Kaicheng.

While speaking, the car crossed Yangpu Bridge and turned right for more than 200 meters. I saw a signpost of "Millennium Ancient Yantian Entrance" and knew that my destination was coming soon. Sure enough, the car only stopped for more than two minutes.

When I got off the bus, I was looking for shelter from the rain in the shade, but my friend pulled me and pointed to the place 300 meters ahead, saying it was the "Millennium Ancient Yantian". As my friend pointed out, there is nothing except the beach and a few fishing boats on the shore. I tried to give him a look, trying to find a bright spot, but after only a few seconds, I was greatly impressed by the massiness of large films. The beautiful and spectacular Millennium ancient Yantian along the way suddenly dropped several degrees. Fortunately, there are friends around to lead the way enthusiastically, and I have to follow safely when I come.

The hot sun overhead, as if water vapor evaporated from the wetland at the foot, penetrated into clothes and skin. Only after walking 100 meters, I felt sweaty on my forehead, naked and wet, a little spicy and stinging. However, my friends who were born and raised in Sri Lanka, despite the scorching sun, still walked enthusiastically and introduced me to the history of the ancient Yantian for thousands of years.

The ancient salt field in front of us is 750 mu, with a history of over 1200 years. It is said that it was made by salt workers who immigrated from Putian, Fujian. More than 65,438+0,200 years ago, in the late Tang Dynasty, a group of salt workers in Putian, Fujian Province, for some unknown reason, moved to Gul County in the west of Hainan Island at that time, and dug mountains and quarried stones at the seaside of Yangpu Peninsula to build their homes and salt fields. The salt field they built is very unique. It cuts off half of the large natural volcanic rocks by the sea, leaving a convex edge at the top of the stone, and grinding the middle part to make a stone trough. Usually, seawater filtered by sea mud is injected into these stone troughs (seawater will automatically move into these salt troughs at high tide), and high-quality edible salt is dried by the sun. Because this method created a precedent of high-yield "sun-dried salt", and sun-dried salt was delicious and effective for many diseases, Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty gave these Yantian people the imperial book "Zheng De" after hearing the news, which was later called "Millennium Ancient Yantian" and "New Welcome Ancient Yantian".

Up to now, the ancient salt field still retains the original folk salt-making technology for thousands of years. At present, there are more than 65,438+0,000 inkstone-shaped salt troughs with different shapes densely distributed on the beach. There are more than 30 salt workers in Yantian Village, who follow the ancient working method of 1200 years every day.

The scenery around the ancient salt field is very beautiful. The most common plants are cactus and wild pineapple. Not far away is the famous Yangpu Port, which is full of construction scenes and freighters from all over the world. However, life in Gu Yan Village here has not been affected, and it is still calm and leisurely. Children are frolicking in the pond beside the ancient salt field, and the old people are quietly enjoying the cool under the ancient banyan tree at the edge of the village. The people in Guyan Village welcome people and send things, calmly and calmly.

After listening to my friend pointing to a stone to introduce me, I looked down and realized that the stone that I and some other tourists stepped on was very inconspicuous, with grotesque patterns and strange words engraved on it, which turned out to be a priceless cultural relic for thousands of years. A friend said that during the war, someone paid a large sum of money to buy one of the stones at a price higher than Yantian village, which was strongly opposed by the whole village and was expelled by force. Out of conscious protection of cultural heritage, I immediately jumped down from a big stone with the hieroglyph "Fu" engraved on my foot, and carefully avoided these gems when I left.

The 40-minute tour will soon end. When I was about to leave, I looked back at Yantian with an arbor in my hand. A salt maker's grandmother dragged and raked dark sea mud barefoot. A few rays of sunshine emerged from the branches of the island's unique old "bachelor tree" and shone on grandma's ragged back. I clearly saw grandma's old blue clothes dyed with fine patterns as white as salt. The pattern is so clearly visible, as if swallowed up by the years, but the font is still legible, bearing the painstaking efforts and wisdom of generations of salt workers and inheriting the civilization of the Chinese nation.