Clan and Banner Background
The Nuoluo clan is documented in volume 61 of the Qianlong court's Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. Its ancestral locality is given as the Shereng'a River. The principal figure, A'erjitu, belonged to the Bordered Red Banner; the year of his submission was not recorded. The genealogy further notes a change in his family's affiliation from that banner's booi, or bondservant, establishment. It does not describe a transfer to a different banner.
Family Service and Distinctions
A'erjitu's son Ang'ahai and grandson Tuhuqi both served as officers of the imperial guard units. Two great-grandsons, whose personal names were Bashiba and Bajiujiu—literally Eighty-Eight and Eighty-Nine—became respectively a ceremonial official and a bithesi, or administrative scribe. Later descendants included Fude, who served as a departmental secretary, and Fucheng and Funai, who served as bithesi. These numbers are personal names, not the size of a contingent or the dates of appointment.
Kinship, Succession, and Evidence
The offices represent different responsibilities, ranging from guard-unit supervision to ceremonies, translation, copying and government paperwork. They belong to different generations and cannot be combined into one man's career. The exact river location, the date and administrative implications of the booi change, and the clan's Manchu-script form remain to be verified. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 61.
Sources and Bibliography
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- Source reference 5 — 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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