Background and Banner Affiliation
Anchuda was a Guwalgiya man of the Plain Blue Banner whose family came from Anchulaku. Volume 2 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners does not give a definite year for his submission. Its account instead emphasizes later family service. A more distant descendant, Buerhai, served as a cavalry officer, while Sonai became an officer of the imperial guard units and fought in Sichuan. Sonai helped defeat forces associated with Shi Cunli at Chaotian Pass and was later killed in fighting near the Zhang Fei Temple. He received a posthumous yunqiwei distinction.
Career, Campaigns, and Offices
A cavalry officer and a guard-unit officer performed duties in different banner military establishments. The offices belong to Anchuda's descendants; the genealogy does not list an office held by Anchuda himself. Yunqiwei was an inheritable service award, not the same thing as an active guard command.
Hereditary Honors and Source Limits
Sonai's son Baozhu inherited that distinction, followed after Baozhu's death by his own son Xingming. This father-son sequence begins with Sonai and should not be reclassified as a series of immediate children or grandchildren of Anchuda. The stated Chaotian Pass and Zhang Fei Temple locations need to be checked against contemporary campaign routes before modern archaeological identifications can be asserted. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 2.
Sources and Bibliography
- Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.
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