Èrdào

Erdao is a grassland district on the high plateau east of Jining, close to Chagan Nur, the 'White Lake' that the Chinese also called Wutaihai. This is the largest inland salt lake left in northern China, where the Erlong River runs into a basin with no outlet and the shoreline moves with the water. Under the Yuan the country around Jining belonged to Jining Circuit, whose seat lay east of the present Jining; the Ming abolished the circuit in the Hongwu years.