Culture is the projection of history. As the projection of history, salt culture always accompanies the history of human society; As a cultural form, salt culture has rich content and unique charm different from other cultural types.
Sodium chloride, the main component of salt, is an important element to maintain the normal operation of human internal functions. With it, early human beings can survive and live normally, gradually transform into new people, and then create brilliant early civilization.
Material culture of salt:
Material culture is the most basic and universal part of human culture, mainly including those cultural products that directly meet people's basic survival needs, and its basic function is to maintain individual life and social reproduction.
The field of material culture typically embodies the characteristics of "humanized nature", including all natural objects and artificial objects processed to meet people's various physiological and survival needs; It also includes the production tools and means used to produce these goods. In other words, material culture is all materialized forms of human culture.
The research object of salt culture is to study the cultural connotation, cultural phenomena and cultural events behind various social and historical phenomena surrounding salt in the development and evolution of human society, that is, the material culture, institutional culture and spiritual culture of salt, in order to explain and explain the great significance and role of salt in human society.