Background and Banner Affiliation
Baben was an early Qing Guwalgiya ancestor, the sixth younger brother of Fiyanggū. Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners places him in the Plain Yellow Banner and identifies Suwan as the family's ancestral locality. It also notes that the branch had been transferred from the Bordered Yellow Banner, but gives no precise date for the change. The recorded banner transfer concerned registration and administrative organization, not necessarily residential migration.
Career, Campaigns, and Offices
The entry records no office held personally by Baben. His son Gehunde served as a yunhui shi, an officer concerned with ceremonial guard equipment and court processions. Despite the shared character for 'cloud' in the Chinese titles, yunhui shi is not the same institution as the hereditary distinction yunqiwei. Baben's grandsons Samuha and Huase served respectively as second- and third-class imperial bodyguards.
Hereditary Honors and Source Limits
Another descendant, Xiteku, held a niru command during the campaign against Galdan and received yunqiwei. This hereditary award was later withdrawn and could no longer pass to his heirs. Xiteku's sons Yongchang and Qiersai served as a guard-unit officer and a vanguard officer in different military establishments. These offices, campaign experiences and hereditary rewards belonged to Baben's descendants rather than to Baben himself. Suwan is retained as a historical locality pending more precise identification. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 1.
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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