Zigong Salt History Museum

The Zigong Salt History Museum is a museum in Zigong, Sichuan Province, Southwest China. It is housed inside the Xiqin Guildhall, built in 1736 for the duration of the reign of the Qianlong Emperor in the Qing dynasty. The constructing is a Major Historical and Cultural Site of China. Xiqin Guildhall turned into funded by way of the Shaanxi salt tradesmen, and used as a meeting vicinity for salt merchants from Shaanxi, the primary conduit for the Zigong salt.

Another building nearby at the banks of the Fuxi River become the Guild Hall for the salt merchants of Sichuan. The guild corridor took sixteen years to construct at a super price. It has a exquisite outside and notable internal structure and decoration, such as many delicate stone and timber carvings. It represents the highest stage of structure technologies of its age and is a symbol of wealth of salt merchants.

The indoors includes a huge courtyard with a stone centerpiece of a dragon and phoenix. The guild corridor once regularly hosted Sichuan opera for salt traders as well as neighborhood elites in fairs. The constructing features complicated flying eaves and a gilded wooden carved indoors primarily based around a massive galleried atrium where performs had been as soon as done. Exhibits inside the museum cowl the entire records of salt mining relationship from the Han dynasty.