Did you know? Lake Baikal, which belongs to Chinese territory in history, was once called the North Sea, the Battle of Yaksa, the Qing Dynasty won the battle, did not expect that the Kangxi Emperor actually gave the most beautiful, dazzling pearl of Siberia, the most vast Baikal to Tsarist Russia!
The most famous animals of Lake Baikal are seals and sharks!!!
I believe that everyone who has heard Li Jian's song "On the shore of Lake Baikal" has developed a strong interest in the distant northern lake; With a total volume of 23.6 trillion cubic meters (2015) and a deepest point of 1,637 meters (2015), the lake is the world's deepest lake and the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia. The lake is 636 kilometers long, with an average width of 48 kilometers and an area of 31,500 square kilometers, formed by the collapse of strata, with an altitude of 455 meters and an average depth of 730 meters. With a total volume of 23.6 trillion cubic meters and a deepest point of 1,637 meters, the lake is the world's deepest lake and the largest freshwater lake in Eurasia. Lake Baikal is fed by 336 large and small rivers, including the Selenge River, with a catchment area of 557,000 square kilometers.
However, several people know that this beautiful lake, which once belonged to China, was originally called Beihai; In ancient times, it was the place where the ancestors of the present-day Manchus, Sushen, lived in the 11th century BC, expressing submission to Zhou.
According to historical records, around the 3rd century BC, the Ding Ling people in Chinese history were scattered around Lake Baikal, and later Ding Ling was conquered by the Xiongnu and became a ruled tribe in the Xiongnu slave state; Lake Baikal was officially included in the territory of China for the first time, as far back as the time of Emperor Xuan of the Western Han Dynasty.
Under the leadership of Huhan Xiedanyu, the Southern Xiongnu re-established the court in the Karabalgasun region on the west bank of the present-day Orkhon River, ruling the Xiongnu and its subordinate ministries, and wrote to the imperial court to ask the "Shi Shibaosai" Ru to guard the northern territory for the Han, and the Xiongnu became a subordinate of the Han Dynasty, and the northern territories under its rule, including the Baikal region, were dependencies of the Han Dynasty.
In the middle of the 7th century, the Chinese government of the Tang Dynasty officially set up administrative institutions in the area east of Lake Baikal, with the backbone cadres of Xuanbao Prefecture in Lake Baikal, the Jilu Prefecture in Xijie Prefecture, the Candle Dragon Prefecture in the Julob Department and the Gaowang Prefecture in the Xue Department in the east of Lake Baikal. This is the official establishment of an administrative agency by the Chinese government in the Baikal region.
However, after the Tang Dynasty, China fell into a long-term state of war and division, although the national strength was prosperous, but the armed forces were not prosperous, coupled with a peaceful corner, resulting in a long-term loss of domination of the Baikal region, which fell to the Liao state established by the Khitans, the Jin state established by the Jurchens, and the Yuan dynasty established by the Mongols.
Especially the Yuan Dynasty established by the Mongols, Lake Baikal can be said to be the place where the Mongols lived, and after the Yuan ancestor Kublai Khan established the capital, he established the "Lingbei and other places in the Mongolian plateau and Baikal region north of the desert", the province was governed in Helin, and the Yuan Dynasty government also had official pastures in the eastern Baikal region, which was under the leadership of the central government's Taifu Temple.
Although Russia's predecessor, the Moscow Principality, targeted the vast Siberia in the 15th century, Lake Baikal remained part of China until the early Qing Dynasty.
In 1643, the Cossack Kurbat Ivanov of the Yenisei region came to the Baikal region, in 1653 the Cossack detachment led by Pyotr Bektov built the first military fortress in the Baikal region near the confluence of the Ingoda and Chita rivers, and in 1666, a wooden military fortress was built on the banks of the Uda River on Verkhto Udinsk.
Later, Russia finally had a direct military conflict with the Qing Dynasty, that is, the two "Battle of Yaksa", both times the Qing Dynasty defeated hundreds of Russian invading armies with more than 2,000 men, and finally the Kangxi Emperor appointed Soetu and the Russian Imperial plenipotentiary Golovin to sign the Sino-Russian Treaty of Nebuchu in Nebuchu.
The content of the treaty was signed in Manchu, Russian and Latin. The treaty demarcated the eastern and western borders between China and Russia, legally establishing that vast areas of the Heilongjiang and Ussuri river basins, including Sakhalin, remained Chinese territory, but at the same time the Qing government agreed to cede large tracts of land to Russia.
The signing of this treaty was the product of unprincipled concessions made by the Chinese side, and Soetu surrendered to Russia the rich area of Nebuchu, east of Lake Baikal, which originally belonged to China, causing heavy territorial losses. Moreover, the treaty also clearly defines the vast territory between the North North Mountains and the South Branch, from the Arctic Ocean in the north to the Bering Strait in the east, including the Kamchatka Peninsula and the entire Udi River basin, as the area to be discussed, with an area of not less than 3 million square kilometers or even larger.
