Ilan Hala

Ilan Hala stands near the meeting of the Mudan and Songhua rivers. Known in Chinese as Sanxing, it was a centre of the Jurchen communities of the Hurka, as the Mudan was formerly called. Its position at the confluence gave access both upstream into the Hurka valley and downstream toward the Amur. In 1692 the Qing made Sanxing the seat of a deputy lieutenant general under the governor at Jilin, whose command extended across a vast river country toward the northeast.