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Jisun: A Guwalgiya Minister of the Board of Rites

Historical service, banner offices, and hereditary distinctions

Jisun, whose name has a variant Chinese-character spelling in the source, was the third son of Yindahuqi Mo'ergen of the Guwalgiya clan. Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of.

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Background and Banner Affiliation

Jisun, whose name has a variant Chinese-character spelling in the source, was the third son of Yindahuqi Mo'ergen of the Guwalgiya clan. Volume 1 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners places him in the Bordered White Banner and notes that his branch had previously belonged to the Bordered Yellow Banner. Jisun served as minister of the Board of Rites while also holding a banner company command.

Career, Campaigns, and Offices

The Board of Rites was one of the six central boards and administered state ceremonies, ritual institutions and related affairs. A minister directed its work, whereas a niru commander was responsible for a banner's basic registered military-and-household unit. These concurrent responsibilities should not be compressed into a single modern job title.

Hereditary Honors and Source Limits

Two separate family lines accumulated military distinctions. Jisun's son Sudan, a guard colonel, was killed in Huguang and posthumously awarded yunqiwei. Sudan's son Maitu died fighting at Shaozhou and earned a further qidu wei distinction, with later succession by Madai and Saiketu. Another of Jisun's sons, Wudan, participated as an unappointed banner member in campaigns in Shandong, Huguang and Chahar; he received qidu wei plus an additional yunqiwei distinction and became a deputy banner commander. Unappointed status did not remove banner affiliation. These achievements belonged to Jisun's descendants, not to Jisun's own tenure as a minister. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 1.

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.