Clan and Banner affiliation Langge was the seventh younger brother of Feiyingdong, a member of the Guwalgiya clan traditionally associated with Suwan. Volume 1 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* lists him under the Bordered White Banner and notes a transfer from the Bordered Yellow Banner. His family entered the Manchu polity in the early period. This change of registration should be preserved rather than treating one Banner as an unchanging affiliation throughout his life.
Political office Langge held the rank of *shangshu*, a senior minister of a central board, and served as a deliberative minister participating in high-level military and political decisions. The genealogy does not identify which board he headed. It would be misleading to assign him to the Board of War or Board of Rites simply because other relatives later held those positions. The Banner designation described household and military-administrative registration, while his deliberative work was a role in central politics.
Descendants and hereditary distinctions His son Yandai served as a wing commander associated with the imperial mausoleums, and another son, Eduohui, became an associate Banner commander. Grandson Xibuchen, who served in the Vanguard, received third-class *qingche duwei* and subsequently obtained higher merit distinctions for campaigns around Jingzhou and the relief of Jiangning. He also held offices as senior Banner commander and General Who Pacifies the West and received an honorary designation linked to the heir apparent. Xibuchen was later punished, and the hereditary rank did not continue. Those military campaigns, appointments and penalties belonged to Langge's grandson rather than to Langge.
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