Leizhou has a long coastline and abundant sea salt resources. In the flat terrain along the beach, the sea water is introduced into the salt pond, and after the sun evaporates, you can get the white crystalline particles, that is, sea salt. During the Northern Song Dynasty, salt production was popular in Leizhou, and at that time, it was cooked and cooked salt and supplied to the state for its own use. It was not until after 1987 that this decoction of cooked salt completely withdrew from the stage of history.
Leizhou Maliu Salt Pan, located in Yingli Town, Leizhou, is the largest existing area of salt pan in China using traditional artificial beach drying. The Malyu Salt Pan is about 435 hectares, and from April to August every year is the harvest period of the Maliu Salt Pan, and the workers of the MaLiu Salt Pan rush to the Salt Pan Beach at three or four o'clock in the morning to dry and work. Beach drying salt operation, to absorb moisture, halogenation, crystallization and other processes.
In the Salt Pan of Mayu, the level is like a mirror, and the salt is as white as snow! Piles of salt mountains, crystal clear, illuminated by the fierce sun, like carefully carved diamonds! (Photo @ Xu Wenqing provided)