The origin of zhili governor

In the first year of Shunzhi (1644), Zhili set up three governors of Shuntian, Baoding and Fu Xuan, and two governors of Xuanda and Shaanxi. There is no clear subordinate relationship between the governor and the governor. Later, the Qing government changed the northern Zhili in Beijing into Zhili province, and its jurisdiction was equivalent to most areas of Beijing and Tianjin, Hebei province and a few areas of Henan and Shandong.

In the fifth year of Shunzhi (1648), Zhili, Shandong and Henan established the governors of Shandong and Henan provinces in Zhili, and stationed in Daming (now daming county, Hebei Province), which was called Zhili Daming House.

In the eighteenth year of Shunzhi (166 1), the Qing court issued an imperial edict: "The governors of Zhili provinces shall be stationed in the provincial capital". Accordingly, Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Sichuan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Guizhou and other 15 provinces have successively set up governors, and Zhili has since had a governor of a single province. This governor named Miao Cheng lives in Daming.

Miao Cheng (born and died in an unknown year in Renxian County, Hebei Province) became the "first governor of Zhili".