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Meileng Hala: Yehe Clan with Household and Guard Appointments

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Meileng clan is listed in volume 58 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with Yehe as its historical home. Its recorded branches include.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Meileng clan is listed in volume 58 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with Yehe as its historical home. Its recorded branches include Sanbao, a Plain Yellow Banner booi, and Xierteng of the Bordered White Banner. Both submitted during the Tiancong era; the Xierteng line is specifically described as transferred from the Plain Yellow Banner. A shared submission period does not date that transfer.

Family Service and Distinctions

Sanbao was a pasture supervisor. His son Guanbao served as an Imperial Household Department unit administrator, while Qianlihun managed stores and Shenbao a tea-service establishment. A great-grandson Baozhu subsequently held the same tea-service managerial role; Guanyinbao was a bithesi. Xierteng's grandson Hutu served as a defence officer, and a great-grandson Uerchan as deputy guard-battalion commander.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

Pasture management, stores, tea supply, booi unit administration, documentary service, and military command constituted different kinds of work. Sanbao's booi status should not automatically be attributed to Xierteng's separate branch. Deputy rank and distinctions between present and former officers must also be retained. Similarities to the separate Meile surname do not justify merging the clans without evidence from original Manchu forms or genealogies.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
  2. Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
  3. Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
  4. Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org
  5. Source reference 5 — gerel.net

References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.