The history of Yunyang ancestors utilizing natural salt springs can be traced back to four or five thousand years ago. However, the drilling of wells to draw brine and cook salt began in the Qin and Han Dynasties. The discovery and excavation of Yunan salt wells has been the subject of two beautiful legends, which add a bit of mystery to the beginning of the salt industry in Yunan.

Legend has it that at the time of Qin and Han Dynasties, on the bank of Tangxi River in present-day Yun'an Township, the stream was flowing swiftly, trees were flourishing, birds' twittering and flowers were fragrant, and the scenery was exquisite. Small bridge next to the water, lived in a family, men plowing and weaving, respect each other as guests, although the conditions are bitter, but pleasant as immortal. One day at noon, the weather is hot, the hostess in the Tangxi River bath, in a trance, think there is a monster like a dragon like a snake flash disappeared. Mistress of the surprise, the heart of suspicion. Not on, there seems to be a thing in the belly drumming, I know pregnant, secretly happy. Mistress of a pregnant, even to a year before delivery, gave birth to a white and fat son, named Fu Jia. Fu Jia is very intelligent, parents as a treasure, so they hired a teacher to teach calligraphy. Fuga contact with books, can not forget, far-reaching insights, better than the teacher. The teacher sighed at his own inferiority and closed the school. Fuga continued to read and study, and became famous not only in his own neighborhood, but also in his own country. In order to increase the insights, show ambition, he went out of the mountains, to the shores of Dongting Lake, Qilu land sightseeing tours. In particular, he traveled to Feng and Pei, and had the pleasure of meeting Liu Bang, the president of Surabaya, and the two talked about the past and present, pointing out the river and mountains, and then became close friends, and agreed to carry each other forward in the future, *** to create a special business. At the end of his travels, he returned to his hometown, started a family and had children, and lived a hermit's life of reading, farming and famine relief. Once by chance, he discovered the salt spring. At that time, the King of Chu, Xiang Yu, was in the army of Sanqin, and the King of Han, Liu Bang, was living in Guanzhong, preparing to fight for the world. The hermit was very happy to hear that Liu Bang had become the king of Han and decided to drill a well to boil salt to help pay his wages. So, he carefully surveyed the brine vein, selected the location of the well, and with his daughter, Nine Dragons, led the people to excavate the first salt well in the history of Yunan - Dajing (also known as Zujing and Bailujing), which opened the history of the development of the salt industry in Yunan for more than 2,000 years of brilliant and glorious history. On his deathbed, the hermit left his last words: "Three oxen against the horse ridge, no nobleman out of the salt well. Nine dragons female father's last orders, continue to lead the people to dig wells until nine. Yunan people to always remember the wells for the benefit of the people of the philosopher, enshrined him as the well ancestor, well God, made the Dragon Palace Temple molded its golden body yearly sacrifice.

Another legend is even more amazing. According to legend, 206 BC (Han Gaozu first year) between four and May, King Liu Bang Hanzhong, ready to start a duel with Xiang Yu, the king of Western Chu. On the eve of the duel, Liu Bang heard that Jia, a hermit who was close to him when he was young, was living on the bank of Tangxi River in Qu Ninh County. Liu Bang decided to invite the hermit Jia to come out and help him to realize his hegemony. So he and his tiger general Fan Kuai crossed the Qinling Mountains, passed through the Baoxian Mountains, passed through Dongxiang, and passed through Anche, and came to the territory of Qu Ninhong County. The two of them walked and visited, and finally came to the bank of Tangxi River. When they were walking near the Gaozu Temple in the present-day territory of Refugee Village, Fan Kuai suddenly found a white rabbit in the bushes, so he shot at the rabbit with his bow and arrow. The white rabbit was hit by the arrow and turned around and ran upstream along the Tangxi River. When Fan Kuai and Liu Bang chased the white rabbit to the vicinity of the present day White Rabbit Well, the white rabbit disappeared in a flash. The two dismounted, drew their swords and opened the grass to look for it, and found a thin stream with a different flavor, dipped their fingers and tasted it, which turned out to be a salty salt spring. Therefore, Xiang Yu troops Sanqin, cut off the Han army from the solution of the pool and the East China Sea to get salt channel, the whole army has been light food for several months, the decline in combat effectiveness. The discovery of the salt spring in Qu Nin was a great surprise. Liu Bang visited the hermit, and the two of them talked about world affairs at the present-day Han Wangtai. Jia offered Liu Bang the strategies of Hanzhong, settling Sanqin, fighting for Yuzhou and seizing the world, and Liu Bang was enlightened. Liu Bang invited Jia to work for him, but Jia politely declined. Liu Bang knew that Jia's ambition was to help the army, so he gave Jia the surname Fu, and ordered him to dig salt wells and develop the salt industry to help finance the army. Fu Jia and his daughter Liu Longnian led the people to dig wells and boil salt. When Liu Bang succeeded in his fight for the world, he did not forget Fu Jia, who had set up the policy of San Qin, and appointed him as a court captain with a cognac of Qu Nin. Nowadays, Yunan Town still has many monuments related to Liu Bang. Gaozu Temple, where Liu Bang and Fan Kuai met with Fu Jia; Han Wangtai, where the king of Han and Fu Jia discussed the world's situation; Hancheng Mountain, where the king of Han bi-turned to Yun'an; and White Rabbit Well, where Liu Bang and Fan Kuai were the first ones to discover the halogen vein.

History of Salt Industry Yunan is the salt capital for thousands of years, and it has been developed and enriched by salt, and finally exhausted by salt. The development of the salt industry in Yunan roughly went through three periods and three stages.

The first period was the beginning development stage, from 206 BC to the end of the Ming Dynasty. During this period, the court controlled the excavation of salt wells, salt stove settings and other matters, although through the Han, Three Kingdoms, the two Jin Dynasty, the North and South Dynasties, Sui, Tang, the Five Dynasties, Song, Yuan, Ming Dynasty and other dynasties, but the government-run government sales system has never changed substantially. The minimum number of wells was 2, a big well (White Rabbit Well), a Taihe Well, and then gradually increased to 9, and the number of salt stoves increased to 132, with an annual production of at least 2.5 tons of salt, and at most about 2,700 tons of salt. Although the initial development phase was long, the pace of development was slow, so commercial services and other related industries did not develop significantly.

The second period is the rapid development stage, the time for the early years of the Qing Dynasty to the end of the Republic of China. The Qing Dynasty from the Yongzheng six years from the implementation of large-scale immigration, a large number of people from other provinces to Yunan pull grass for the industry, Yunan population gradually increased. At the same time, the court adjusted the industrial and commercial policy to encourage people to start industries, allowing private investment in wells to boil salt, change the government for private, only set up a salt ambassador department to collect salt tax. Salt industry contains a huge profit, attracted Sichuan and Shaanxi, the two lakes, Jiangsu and Zhejiang and other places of insightful people to invest in the industry. To Qianlong in metallurgy, wells up to 126 salt, for the end of the Ming Dynasty 14 times; boil salt stove increased to 352 eyes, for the end of the Ming Dynasty 3 times. The large increase of wells and stoves led to the short supply of experienced salt workers, so there was a large influx of Zhongzhou salt workers, who had the same salt-making process as that of Yunan Salt Factory, into Yunan. Afterwards, these Zhongzhou workers brought farmers from Shizhu, Dianjiang, Liangshan, Fengdu and other places into the salt workers' team, which amounted to thousands of people at its peak. Along with the rapid development of the salt industry, the service industry and town construction such as catering and commerce also developed and expanded rapidly, and the pace of Yunan's economic and social development accelerated.

In the early years of Xianfeng, the Qing court implemented the policy of Sichuan salt Jichu, Yunan salt sales opened up, wells, stoves and salt production increased rapidly, the salt industry to a new level. According to xianfeng "yunyang county record", xianfeng years the county's total tax revenue of 3804.958 two, of which the salt course silver for 1548.1668 two, salt tax accounted for 40.58%. The great development of salt economy promoted the development of various industries in Yunan. Wells, stove business in the wise began to build schools, private schools, promote Confucian culture; worship God believe in witch began to build a variety of places of worship, the nine palaces and eighteen temples are mostly built during this period; rich Jiangnan architectural style of the courtyard has also been completed.

Anti-Japanese War period, the national government decided the second Chuan salt Jichu, Yunan salt is exported to southern Henan, northern Hubei and other war fronts, the expansion of the market to promote the rapid development of the salt industry, the highest annual output of 24,700 tons, a record. 1942, Wanxian Chuankang period into the director of the Association Chu Fu-sheng came to Yunan to preside over the issuance of wartime bonds, Wang Xinfa and other 68 cooker business for the first time! Subscription of 2 million yuan, causing a sensation in the province, Yunan became the province and even the country's famous salt town. To the eve of liberation, Yunan has nearly 500 companies, the population of nearly 30,000 people, its people Tengmao, market prosperity than Yunyang County.

The third period for the salt industry in its heyday, from the early years of liberation to 1992. After liberation, Yunan salt industry was once affected by the iron and steel and the Cultural Revolution, but in 1954 the beginning of the three big steps Yunan salt industry to the historical peak: in 1954, the salt field to install the first thermal power unit, the salt field began to use pumps to draw brine; November 1959, Yunyang to the Jiangkou highway was opened to traffic, the end of the Yunan salt rely on the history of manpower transportation; after 1978 the introduction of the vacuum salt production technology, After 1978, the introduction of vacuum salt production technology, equipment and salt a well of concentrated brine, salt production increased dramatically, in 1992 reached 92,000 tons of the historical peak. The peak of the development of the salt industry is also the peak of the development of the ancient town. By the pull of the salt industry, Yunan Town, run up cement, tannery, fine art ceramics, tung oil chemical and more than 30 industrial enterprises, especially from the 1980s to the mid-1990s, Yunan production of cement accounted for more than eighty percent of the county's cement production, becoming a pivotal industrial town in the county. However, after 1993, the salt market slumped, and Yunyang Salt Factory suffered serious losses and struggled. 1998 Yunyang Salt Factory was merged by Wanzhou Sauter Group Company, and in April 2003, Yunyang Salt Factory ceased production, where Yun'an's more than 2,000 years of salt production history was suspended.

Social and Cultural Development Along with the development of the salt industry, the ancient town has prospered in culture, with a rich humanistic heritage and a splendid cultural lineage. Here there is the famous philosopher of the Northern Song Dynasty Shao Yong set up altar to talk about the "Zhouyi" of the performance of the Yi Terrace, there is the Han King Terrace of the Han Gaozu Liu Bang met Fuga, and there is the writing of China's first Spring Festival couplets, the position of the Hou Shu Hanlin scholar, the Ministry of Public Works Minister of the Ministry of the Xin Yinxun. The Nine Palaces and Eighteen Temples, known to women and children, have given rise to a thousand years of religious and cultural landscapes. Dicui Temple, known as the Jungle of the Ten Directions, is located at the bottom of Tangxi River, with the wall at its back, where countless literati and scholars have composed poems and gifts in praise of its scenery.

Yunan Ancient Town is a typical immigrant town. People from Hubei, Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Shaanxi and other places converged here, and the cultures of different regions mingled with each other, leaving deep imprints in the ancient town. Relatives from the same region, the premises are adjacent to each other, living next to each other, and with its ancestral home named streets and lanes named to send their homesickness, such as Huangzhou people living in Huangzhou Street, Jiangxi people living in Jiangxi Street and so on; in order to seek protection, they set up guild halls, and prop up the building is the Shaanxi people guild hall. With the meeting hall is very Jiangnan characteristics of the mansion compound, such as the Chen family compound, Lin family compound, the State compound, plus nine palaces and eighteen temples of the ancient town has become a grand view garden of the architectural art.

The ancient town has a rich accumulation of folk culture. Every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and other major festivals, are held a feast, especially to play the dragon lanterns are the most hot, colorful dragons, fire dragons, grass dragons, dragons gathered, leaping to present auspicious. Different troupes and gangs dance with different colorful dragons, such as the yellow dragon of the Shengping troupes, the white dragon of the Renhe troupes, the black dragon of the Tu gangs, the red dragon of the Toufang gangs, and the blue dragon of the Bean Sprout gangs. There are also grand Dragon King Club, Fire God Club, and sacrifices to the two gods of water and fire. The folk art of the ancient town is even more blossoming, competing with each other. Sichuan opera, Beijing opera, shadow, commentary, bamboo qin, money board, harmonic drama, comedy, Sichuan dialect, have been active in the cultural stage of the ancient town.

Yunan migrant relocation In accordance with the Three Gorges Reservoir elevation of 175 meters above sea level program, Yunan flooded area of about 1 square kilometers, accounting for 80.65% of the territory, involving Jinkou, Dayuanba, Jiangxi Street, Arrowhead, the performance of the easy platform, Zijinqiao, Nga Menkou and other 7 neighborhood committees, 80 residential groups, 2,569 households and 8,582 people; flooding of industrial and mining enterprises 35, of which the county-owned enterprises, 17, the town of 18 enterprises. 18 enterprises. In 1998, the town's first residents relocation of housing in the new county town Yunan district began construction. 2000 early, the first phase of the immigration community relocation planning began to implement (today's foreign language school to the left side of the tunnel line to the Mopanzhai). 2001 May, the second phase of the immigration community relocation planning began to implement (i.e., today's Reservoir Road to the Minde Road, Yunan Road line). By October 2008, there were more than 2,300 purely residential households in the town to build new houses by themselves, with a total construction area of more than 35 square meters.In October 1995, according to the "Yunyang County flooded industrial and mining enterprises relocation planning", Yunan township enterprises began to implement the relocation. Red Flag Cement Plant, Dongfeng Cement Plant has completed the relocation of immigrants. 1999 May, the state of the Three Gorges Reservoir Area industrial and mining enterprises to make major adjustments to the policy of relocation, requiring the implementation of mergers, bankruptcy, closure and other measures are not permitted to relocate the same way. 2000, in accordance with the unified deployment of the county government, the township's 18 enterprises are all implemented in the bankruptcy or closure of the use of enterprise compensation funds for the immigrants to resettle the workers. To 2008, the town's industrial and mining enterprises, more than 900 employees and the original enterprise labor relations, independent choice of employment.