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Chunbulu: A Guwalgiya Family of Yehe

Historical service, banner offices, and hereditary distinctions

Chunbulu was a Guwalgiya member of the Bordered Blue Banner whose family originated in Yehe. He submitted in the early Qing period. Volume 3 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the.

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Background and Banner Affiliation

Chunbulu was a Guwalgiya member of the Bordered Blue Banner whose family originated in Yehe. He submitted in the early Qing period. Volume 3 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners identifies a grandson, Buhai, and a great-grandson, Gepuseli, as bithesi, administrative scribes and translators. Another great-grandson, Suntai, served as a cavalry officer and was killed fighting the Zunghars at Hotong Huerha Nao'er. Suntai was posthumously awarded yunqiwei, which passed to his son Changyong.

Career, Campaigns, and Offices

The term bithesi derives from the Manchu vocabulary associated with books and writing, and designated personnel concerned with official correspondence, copying, registration and translation. The fact that two descendants served in this capacity does not establish inheritance of a single clerical office. A banner cavalry officer carried practical command and training responsibilities, whereas yunqiwei was a hereditary military distinction.

Hereditary Honors and Source Limits

Changyong inherited the award for his father's military service; the genealogy does not say he inherited Suntai's cavalry appointment. Chunbulu's early allegiance and his great-grandson's death in a later Zunghar campaign took place in different generations. Yehe is a historical ancestral region; the particular household settlement, the clerks' employing bureaus and the intervening genealogy remain incomplete. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 3.

Sources and Bibliography

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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.