Mudan

Under the Western Han Empire, the districts of Juyang (句 阳县), Jiami (葭 密 县) and Liudu (吕 都 县), which were part of Jiyang County (济阴 郡), were created in these places. Under the Eastern Han Empire, the districts of Jiam and Liudu were annexed to the county of Juyang.

Under the North Wei Empire, in 488, Chengshi County (乘 氏 县) was formed in these places as part of Jiyang County. Under the Sui Empire, Changsha County was disbanded, but under the Tang Empire in 621 it was re-formed. Under the Northern Song Empire, the Tsaozhou (曹州) region was created, under whose jurisdiction Chengshi County appeared; in 1102, the region was elevated in status and became the Xinjen government (兴仁 府).

After these places were conquered by the Jurchen and became part of the Jin Empire, in 1166, Chengshi County was annexed to Jiyang County (济阴 县). In 1168, the Yellow River flooded the administrative center of Jiyang, and therefore the authorities of Jiyang County and the Tsaozhou Region moved to the former administrative center of Chengshi County (in the territory of the modern Mudan district).

Under the Ming Empire, in 1368, Jiyang County was disbanded, and its territory passed under the direct control of the region’s authorities, and the next year, the region’s government moved to the territory of the modern Tsaoxian County. In 1371, the region was lowered in status, and became the county of Tsaoxian. In 1446, the Tsaozhou region was re-created; its board was located in the administrative center of the former Chengshi County.

Under the Qing Empire, in 1724, the Tsaozhou region was elevated to the status of “directly controlled” (that is, subordinated directly to the provincial authorities, without an intermediate link in the form of a council), and in 1735 it was promoted to the Tsaozhou council (曹 州府), while lands that were previously directly subordinate to the regional authorities were merged into Heze County (菏泽 县), subordinate directly to the council. After the Xinhai Revolution , a reform of the administrative structure was carried out in China, and in 1913 the councils were abolished.

In March 1949, the urbanized part of Heze County was allocated to a separate district of Chengguan ("Intracity District") county level. In August 1949, Pingyuan Province was created, which included the formation of the Hejze Special District (菏泽 专区); Heze County and Chengguan District became part of the Heze Special Region.

In November 1952, Pingyuan Province was disbanded, and the Heze Special Region was transferred to Shandong Province. In August 1953, the Chengguan area was annexed to Heze County as the village of Chengguan. In November 1958, the Hejie Special District was annexed to the Jining Special Region (济宁 专区), but was reinstated in June 1959. In 1960, Heze County was transformed into Heze City, but in 1963, Heze City again became Heze County. In March 1967, the Heze Special District was renamed the Heze District (菏泽 地区). In 1983, Heze County was again transformed into Heze City.

By the decree of the State Council of the People’s Republic of China of June 23, 2000, Heje County and the city of Hejze were disbanded, and instead of them, on January 8, 2001, the Hejze City District was formed; the territory of the former city of Heze became the Mudan district in its composition.

The district is divided into 10 street committees , 13 villages and 1 parish .

• Mudan - information about the territory, population and history of changes in the administrative-territorial division on the site 行政 区划 网(Chinese)