Budai Salt Field (Budai Salt Mountain). The coast of southwestern Taiwan, with its flat sandy shores and strong sunshine, has been an excellent salt field since ancient times. The coast of southwestern Taiwan, with its flat sandy shores and strong sunshine, has been an excellent salt field since ancient times. Budai possesses unique geographical conditions and a long history of salt production, dating back to the Qianlong era of the Qing Dynasty, over two hundred years ago. Budai began developing salt fields during the Qing Dynasty's Qianlong era. By the Qing Dynasty's Daoguang 3rd year, the wealthy salt merchant Wu Shangxin developed a hundred chia of salt pans, laying the foundation for Budai's salt industry. During the Japanese colonial period, Budai's salt fields matured further, making Budai Port an important salt transportation hub, exporting Budai's salt to China and Japan. The vast white salt fields, once holding the status of a "platinum" industry, eventually saw salt workers almost entirely replaced by mechanized salt production, like other salt fields in the region, leading to the decline of Budai's salt industry. The large salt pans no longer display scenes of salt drying or harvesting, and the small trains that once traversed the salt fields have long since retired. The Budai Salt Field is not limited to Budai Township; in fact, the entire salt field area spans across three townships along the coast of Chiayi County: Dongshi Township, Budai Township, and Yizhu Township. A rough division is from Provincial Highway 17 west to the coastline, from the northernmost Zhangtan Office to the southernmost Xinwen Office, managing about 10 production areas. The currently existing idle salt flats between Provincial Highway 17 and Provincial Highway 61 are connected to the Haimeiliao Ecological...
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