Salt Comes Salt Goes

Chuantou Village on the coast of the South China Sea has relied on the ancient method of drying salt in volcanic stone troughs for generations. The tides come and go, the salt and frost rise and fall, and the rise and fall of the salt industry is closely tied to the fate of the whole village. Hainan was established as a province, and the tide of the times came. Unwilling to be trapped in the increasingly desolate salt fields, Wang Shui said goodbye to his hometown and went out to explore, while his younger sister Wang Shuishang stayed behind in his hometown to guard the increasingly desolate ancient salt trough. As time goes by, the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port has ushered in a new change. Wang Shui, who has gone through many hardships outside and has a successful career, is happy to return to Chuantou Village. On the one hand, there is the thousand-year-old salt-drying technique that is on the verge of extinction, and on the other hand, there are ever-changing opportunities for island development. The two brothers and sisters struggle to navigate between the hometown and the distance, tradition and modernity. With the struggle and perseverance of ordinary people, they write about the joys and sorrows, search and return home of a generation of coastal salt people in the great era.