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Bilu Hala: A Yehe Clan with Military and Civil Prominence

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Bilu clan is recorded in volume 32 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with branches originating around Yehe. Zhumala of the Bordered White.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Bilu clan is recorded in volume 32 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with branches originating around Yehe. Zhumala of the Bordered White Banner submitted early and participated in campaigns at Jinzhou, along the Songhua River, and after the Qing conquest of Beijing. He served as vice president of the Board of War, banner commander, and General Who Pacifies the South. Military merit and imperial favour brought successive noble awards, and he received the posthumous designation Xiangmin.

Family Service and Distinctions

His hereditary distinction first passed to his second son Botongguo and later to Keshan and Funing, with records of further division of inheritance. Zhumala's fourth son Wolun served as governor of Shanxi. Other descendants held prefectural, imperial guard, ceremonial, banner-company, and bithesi posts. The genealogy expressly identifies Zhuomala as kin to Chuomutongguo of Ula in the same banner and relates additional Yehe branches to him.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

Vice presidency of the Board of War belonged to central military administration, the banner command concerned Eight Banner forces, and a governorship was a regional civil post. Inheritance of a distinction did not entail taking over all an ancestor's offices. The original Manchu surname spelling, relationships between Yehe and Ula families, and the detailed sequence of awards require verification.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
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References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.