Shuhulu

Overview

Shuhulu was a member of the Hesheli clan of the Bordered Yellow Banner of the Manchus in the early Qing Dynasty. His family had lived in Hada for generations and submitted to the Qing during the Tiancong era, and held the office of *muchang* (head of herd management). Volume 9 of the official clan genealogy of the Qianlong era, *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, records that his son, Samuha, served as a Qiduwei, and his grandson, Saharcha, served as a guard captain, participating in the wars in Guangdong and Yunnan, distinguishing himself in Shaozhou and Huangcaoba, and earning the hereditary title of Qiduwei.

The *muchang* office involved pastoral management. The *Draft History of the Qing Dynasty* also lists this position under the system of the Imperial Stables, but the original entry did not specify the individual's department, so his resume cannot be directly added based on his later Imperial Stable rank. The Qiduwei and the guard captain managed the lower-level soldiers of different banners, while the Qiduwei was a hereditary military title, not a general term for two officer positions.

Saharcha's son, Majintai, inherited the title, which was later passed to his grandson, Bashisan; Bashisan is a name in the original text, not the age of the inheritor. Tiancong was the reign title used by Huang Taiji during the Later Jin period, generally corresponding to 1627-1636. The period of submission occurred before the conquest of China, while the grandchildren's expeditions were part of subsequent family service. The original residence in Hada, the battlefields of Guangdong and Yunnan, and the unrecorded postings should be separated. The connection between the individual's herdsmanship, the date of departure, and the succession across generations needs to be verified with the original printed edition.