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Chinese Salt 　　As the Chinese saying goes： no salt for one day， appetite lost； no salt for three days， will power vanished， salt is known by Chinese as the ‘source of all flavors’， or rather ‘a treasure for all’. The history of Chinese salt can be traced back to Age of Teras， the earliest period of the three sovereigns and five emperors. Salt is closely related to people’s livelihood which is true not only for China but for the whole world and there has been fantastic stories spread about it. When salt is presented by photos， it should be an innovation of achieving the perfection combination of images and thoughts. 　　Chinese Salt is a work of the ‘the general photographer’，Mr. Song JuPu. It belongs to the white part of his ‘red， white， blue and black’ series. This book shows various values in different ways. For salt industry， it is a professional book about its history， culture， science and technology； for art world， it is a precious album for the large number of rare pictures it contains； for tourism， it contributes to the exploitation of Chinese salt industry landscape. 　　Mr. Song has literally set foot on every part of China to make sure he has visited every salt pan， out of which he takes more than a thousand pictures of salt collected from all sorts of places： timber frames， stone plates， the sea， the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau， the vast Gobi Desert， the depths of the earth， the most ancient salt pan， the place closest to ‘the heart of Asia’. All these salt pans with its own distinguishing features speak loudly for the unimaginable miracle performed by nature and the fact that Chinese ancient ancestors managed to coexist with nature harmoniously. The most dominant feature of this book is that it combines history， geography， science， technology， economy， literature and photography， delivering to you as much amount of information as it can. 　　Common as salt is， it still hasn’t been totally understood. This book is for professional researches， and also for the publ