Clan affiliation and banner status Daiduka was an early Qing member of the Šumulu clan, associated with the historical settlement of Kurka and the wider kinship group of Yanggūri. The precise date of his family's submission is not recorded. Volume 6 of the *General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* describes a change in this family branch's registration from the Plain Yellow Banner to the Bondservant (*booi*) establishment of the Bordered White Banner. This was a change of institutional affiliation and should not be overridden by assuming that members of the same clan always belonged to one banner.
The *booi* designation referred to a particular relationship of service and dependency within banner structures, not simply to an ordinary modern employee. Moreover, membership in the Bordered White Banner's *booi* establishment does not, without additional documentation, prove attachment to the Imperial Household Department's Upper Three Banner structure.
Descendants and hereditary distinctions A descendant recorded as a great-great-grandson, Feiyanggu, served as a junior Guard officer and won the hereditary grade of *qiduwei* through campaigns in Zhejiang and Fujian. The award subsequently passed through Fusheng and Fulehe. Another descendant of the same generational level, Zakuda, gained *yunqiwei* for service against Galdan; this separate distinction passed to Bahai. These were distinct lines of military merit and inheritance.
The genealogy also identifies a grandson named Gaha Baturu as a *fangyu* officer, and names later relatives in civil and storehouse offices, including *langzhong* and *siku*. “Baturu” was an honorific denoting valor rather than a single fixed bureaucratic grade. The precise links among the collateral families, the original date of banner re-registration and Daiduka's own offices are not supplied by the excerpt. They should therefore remain unresolved rather than being reconstructed from later descendants' careers.
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