Chengde

Chengde formerly called Jehol or Rehe, is a prefecture-degree city in Hebei province, situated northeast of Beijing. The name way "to deliver virtue" meaning "to carry to others the distinctive feature of the emperor. It is first-rate referred to as the website of the Mountain Resort, a big imperial garden and palace formerly used by the Qing emperors as summer season residence. The city center had a population of about 450,000 as of 2009. The metropolis of Jehol reached its peak beneath the Qianlong Emperor 1735-1796 died 1799.

The extremely good Putuo Zongcheng Temple, loosely based totally on the Potala in Lhasa, was completed after simply four years of labor in 1771. It turned into closely adorned with gold and the emperor worshipped in the Golden Pavilion. In the temple itself changed into a bronze-gilt statue of Tsongkhapa, the Reformer of the Gelugpa sect.Under the Republic of China, Chengde was the capital of Rehe province. From 1933 to 1945 the city became under Japanese manage as a part of the Manchurian puppet kingdom referred to as Manchukuo.

After World War II the Kuomintang regained jurisdiction. In 1948, the People's Liberation Army took manage of Chengde. It would stay a part of Rehe till 1955, whilst the province became abolished, and the city changed into included into Hebei. The town is domestic to huge populations of ethnic minorities, Mongol and Manchu particularly. The call for Chengde in Mongolian is Khaluun gol and in Manchu is Erdemu be aliha.