Zigong Salt Museum

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Zigong Salt Museum is a museum in the salt town of Zigong in Sichuan Province in western China. It was built in 1736 as the Xiqing Guildhall, a meeting place for salt merchants from Shaanxi province. Another building nearby on the banks of the Fuxi (pronounced "fu'shee") River was the Guild Hall for the salt merchants of the Sichuan province. The guild hall took sixteen years to complete. The interior contains a large courtyard with a stone centerpiece of a dragon and phoenix. The guild hall hosted Chinese opera for many important citizens of the area.

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The building features elaborate flying eaves and a gilded wooden carved interior based around a large galleried atrium where plays were once performed. Exhibits in the musuem cover the entire history of salt mining dating from the Han dynasty.

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