Clan registration and genealogical scope Beigun was an early Qing member of the Šumulu clan affiliated with the bondservant (*booi*) establishment of the Plain Red Banner. His ancestral locality was Hunchun, and the clan genealogy places the family's submission in the early period of Manchu state-building. The principal evidence in volume 6 of the *General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* concerns distant descendants, rather than a documented personal career for Beigun himself.
The *booi* designation denoted a specific relationship of service within banner society and should not be rendered simply as the modern occupation “employee.” The banner designation indicates a unit of registration; it does not by itself establish every later household's exact office of service.
Later generations The genealogy identifies several seventh-generation descendants in different types of employment. Menggurdai, Xilun and Mohuotuo served as junior Guard officers; Menggede was a supervisor of livestock or pastures; and Yangshou was a junior officer of the banner cavalry. An eighth-generation descendant, Changshou, served as a Guard officer in campaigns in Zhejiang and Fujian and was granted the hereditary honor of *yunqiwei*, which his son Zaobao inherited. The Qing official system also included pasture-supervisory posts, but the genealogy does not identify Menggede's exact bureau, so it cannot be supplied by inference.
Among ninth-generation descendants, Hushutun was a first-class household guard, Ayan served in a *booi* managerial role, and a collateral relative Zhuman—held a ceremonial office. The genealogy further states that the descendants of a particular branch were subsequently registered with the Plain Blue Banner bondservant establishment. This statement should be limited to the identified branch rather than generalized to every descendant of Beigun. The timing and precise scope of that transfer require examination of the original printed passage.
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