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| ↑Crystallization Ponds Made of Broken Pottery Pieces |
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| ↑Nesting of Kentish Plover on Pottery Salt Flats |
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| ↑Eggs With Camouflage |
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| ↑Salt Making Tools |
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| ↑Experience of Salt Making Hard Work on Watermills |
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| ↑Visit of Minister of Economic Affairs, Hsu Po-yuan |
Waiting for the Spring of
Yongan Salt Field
After the approval of its establishment in
1908, Wushulin Salt Field has undergone
many changes and salt labors generation
after generation depended on it to make a
living. Before Sinda inner sea used to
comprise more than 500 hectares, yet
because of reclaimed land project in the
1960s and the 1970s as well as the building
of Sinda Harbor, water discharge of Yongan
Salt Field was influenced. In 1977, Sinda
Fire Power Plant was built by Taiwan
Power Company, the lagoon area was thus
decreased to a large degree and the area
used for fish pond increased gradually. In
addition, pollution coming from the Fire
Plant caused the failure to meet salt quality
so Taiyen sold Yuangan Field to Taiwan
Power Company for the use of ash treat-
ment site.
The inner sea site now can only allow the
navigation of bamboo rafts. The original
site of salt fields now becomes spacious
wetland for the habitat of birds. History
always has its trace left and a lot of unique
salt manufacturing facilities and office are
still preserved here along with other
diversified landscape. Comparing with
other disappeared historical track, Yongan
salt fields are blessed.
Yongan Salt Office
In the simple, nature, and spacious salt
fields and fish pond, there is a two-story
baroque building. After the showering of
time and weather, it still shows others the
grandness. This is the only western style
building in hundreds years of history in
Yongan, Yongan Salt Office. The building
date remains unknown, but it is believed
that the building should have been
constructed between the period after the
purchase of Wushulin Salt Field by Chen
Jhong-he and Taiwan Salt Company.
Chen Jhong-he made his fortune by
trading material of daily use such as rice,
sugar, and salt and later his operation
expended to salt and sugar making. A lot
of building owned by him were built in the
combination of baroque and Japanese style
like what we see in "Yongan Salt Office"
conveying a sharp contrast with Southern
Fujian construction style.
This more than 80 year long building of Salt
Office was built in traditional European
Baroque style, but the roof was decorated
in Japanese style. The building itself made
use of local building material-brick
structure with two-story inner wooden
building. Although it was damaged due to
wearing out of time, it still serves well in
educational function.
Pottery Crystallization Pond
The space of Yongan Salt Field is
composed of evaporation ponds, slat tanks,
and crystallization ponds. Only few salt
water tanks have been left to accompany
Avicennia marina; the rail used for the
transportation of salt has been dismantled.
Now the sight of salt transportation can
only be seen in a photo.
Salt filed sold to Taiwan Power Company
was planned originally for the use of ash
treatment, but Kaohsiung County govern-
ment proposed for the use of nature park.
After the dispute over the owners' right
and compensation, pottery crystallization
ponds were preserved. The sun ray lays
on the top of pottery crystallization ponds
and the water reflection give us an amazing
scene.
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| ↑Streets of Yantian Village in the past |
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| ↑Migratory Birds and the Old Salt Office |
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