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Shuoma: A Guwalgiya Family of Hada

Historical service, banner offices, and hereditary distinctions

Shuoma was a Guwalgiya man of the Bordered Red Banner whose ancestral place was Hada. Volume 3 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners does not.

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Background and Banner Affiliation

Shuoma was a Guwalgiya man of the Bordered Red Banner whose ancestral place was Hada. Volume 3 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners does not record his submission year. It identifies him as a guard-unit officer. His son Bushuku served as an infantry officer, while another son, Sahada, temporarily acted as a guard colonel during campaigns in Huguang and against the Chahar rebel Burni. Sahada received the hereditary distinction qidu wei for his military service and later became a city garrison commander.

Career, Campaigns, and Offices

A junior guard officer, an acting guard colonel, an infantry officer and a city garrison commander were all active military positions but belonged to different duties and hierarchies. The temporary nature of Sahada's colonelship must be retained. His military service and later distinction belonged to him, not to his father Shuoma. The inherited qidu wei was a separate type of recognition.

Hereditary Honors and Source Limits

After Sahada's death his sons Salantai and Wushiba successively inherited the title. Wushiba, whose Chinese name can also be read as the number fifty-eight, was a person, not his brother's age or the number of successors. Another grandson of Shuoma, Maiqi, became a bithesi, working on official documents. The family therefore combined garrison, guard, infantry and clerical service. The precise settlement in Hada and the family's complete chronology need verification. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 3.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
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  3. Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
  4. Source reference 4 — 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.