As long as China's rivers are mentioned, people often blurt out the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, after all, there is a lyric in "My Chinese Heart" that has long been well-known: the Yangtze River, the Great Wall, the Huangshan Mountains, and the Yellow River weigh thousands of pounds in my heart. The Yangtze River is the longest river in Asia, and the Yellow River is the mother river of the Chinese nation, no matter how you look at it, these two rivers have a pivotal position in the history of our country. However, what few people know is that the shortest river in China is only 90 meters, although it is not marked on the map, but as long as its name is mentioned, I believe everyone will feel very familiar.
Hot River, a river that is only 90 meters, but it will "heat up". Even in the cold winter months, the Hot River will not freeze, and a layer of white mist will emerge, which looks full of fairy spirits. On the surface, the Rehe River is just a hot spring in the northeast of the Chengde Mountain Resort in Hebei Province, but in fact, it has all the characteristics of a river. After the Rehe River exits, it will quickly merge into the Wulie River outside the mountain village, which is essentially a tributary of the Wulie River, and although the location of the Rehe River is not marked on the map, it does not affect its "identity status".
In addition, the hot river is not a hot spring, due to the high mineral content of the hot river water, so that the freezing point of the spring water is lower than the freezing point of pure water, it will not freeze in the cold winter, and when the water vapor condenses into fog, it seems that the spring water is hot, so it is called a hot river spring. Not only that, but more than 100 years ago, the Rehe River was not only a river, but also the name of a province.
Those familiar with the history of the Qing Dynasty know that the Qing Dynasty actually had three "capitals", namely Shengjing (Shenyang), Beijing, and the summer resort in Chengde. Throughout ancient Chinese history, the emperors of the Qing Dynasty seem to be the most afraid of heat, and every summer, the emperor would move to the Rehe Palace, where he would cool off and deal with some government affairs. Administratively speaking, Rehe was under the jurisdiction of the Viceroy directly under the jurisdiction of the Viceroy, but because the Emperor was in the Rehe Office, the rights of the Viceroy directly subordinate to it were also indirectly emptied.
When the emperor realized this problem, he did not hand over the administration to the governor directly under him, but set up another "Rehe Governor" to manage the affairs of Manchuria and Mongolia (Rehe near Inner Mongolia) in the rehe jurisdiction. In the fifteenth year of Jiaqing (1810 AD), the governor of Rehe was gradually "corrected", so his title was also changed to "Rehe Dutong". In fact, the Rehe Capital manages not only the 5.64 million square meters of summer resorts, but also the Zhaowuda League (Chifeng, Inner Mongolia) and Zhuosotu League (the junction of Mongolia, Hebei and Liao provinces) in Inner Mongolia.
The person who served as the governor of Rehe was directly appointed and dismissed by the emperor, and the rank was Zheng Yipin, and later demoted to Congyi Pin (still greater than zheng erpin who was directly subordinate to the viceroy). However, the governor directly under the governor can also manage Rehe, but can only manage the Han people's civil affairs of Rehe, similar to fighting lawsuits, urging public grain, etc., if there are still people who do not understand, you can also treat Rehe as a municipality directly under the central government today. In 1914, Rehe and Hebei separated and had an independent name, Rehe Road. However, in September 1928, the Nationalist government changed it to Rehe Province, and the provincial capital was Chengde.
At that time, Rehe Province had an area of 180,000 square kilometers and a population of about 6 million, with no cities and only 40 counties. In addition, since Rehe is a mixed Mongolian and Han area, in order to take care of the ethnic habits of both sides, the government has also divided 40 counties into 20 banner-based Mongolian counties and 20 counties belonging to the Han-made county. In fact, in the Republic of China period, there was no title of the three eastern provinces, and at that time it was the eastern four provinces "Heiji Liao", as long as the northeast was mentioned, it would wear the rehe.