Ancestry and recorded military service Fudali belonged to the Šumulu clan of the Manchu Plain Yellow Banner and to the wider kin group of Yanggūri, an imperial son-in-law. His family was recorded as having resided in Kurka before submitting to the rising Manchu state. Volume 6 of the *General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* states that Fudali entered military service as a *xiaoqixiao*, a junior officer in the banner cavalry organization. He took part in a campaign in Sichuan and was granted the hereditary distinction of *qiduwei* for military merit.
The *xiaoqixiao* appointment and *qiduwei* distinction belonged to different systems: the former was an active service post concerned with troops and unit administration; the latter was a hereditary honor that could be transmitted under prescribed rules. No date or detailed battle narrative is supplied for Fudali's Sichuan service in the present source record, and it would be misleading to borrow such details from the exploits of better-known members of his clan.
Succession and relatives Fudali died without an heir. His hereditary honor accordingly passed through nephews and subsequent collateral branches rather than in a straightforward father-to-son succession. The genealogy names Zaobao, Polian and Balantai in the broader sequence; their precise intermediate relationships require checking in the original printed genealogy before a detailed family tree can be asserted.
The same family entry identifies Fudali's nephew Fakeshan as an officer of the guard corps, and other descendants as holding posts including *mingzan*, a ceremonial announcer, and *bitieshi*, a clerical or scribal official. These illustrate the diversity of banner service without implying that the later offices were held by Fudali himself. Kurka was the family's ancestral settlement; Sichuan was a theater of military service. Their geographic roles should not be conflated.
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