Jianbai

Overview

Jianbai was a bondservant of the Irgen Gioro clan in the early Qing Dynasty, residing in the Yarhu area, and submitted to the Qing at the beginning of the dynasty. The official clan genealogy of the Qianlong era, *The General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, Volume 13, lists him as a bondservant of the Bordered Blue Banner, noting that he once served as a military officer, and that his great-grandson Zhao Suozhu is currently a rank-eighth-grade official, with a note indicating that he was transferred from the Plain White Banner. Banner color, bondservant status, and the process of changing banners are different levels of information; one cannot write that a person's banner affiliation remained unchanged from birth.

Boatsership was a specific affiliation and organizational category within the Eight Banners, including military and administrative positions. Military officers participated in the grassroots management and guard duties of the military organization; bondservantship was not equivalent to ordinary employees without official positions. The original entry did not specify which imperial household department or princely organization Jianbai belonged to; the institution cannot be designated solely based on the term "bondership."

Officials were ceremonial officials within the system of government offices, with the eighth grade limiting their rank. The original entry did not specify Zhao Suozhu's position in government office, term of office, or rank, and therefore did not supplement this information. The posthumous titles of Yuan and his descendants cannot be transferred to Jianbai's name, and the complete paternal lineage between the two has not yet been determined. The date of the change of affiliation, the bondservant organization, and the corresponding modern village of Yarhu still need to be verified by the original inscriptions, local chronicles, and archives. The current historical context will be preserved when revising the genealogy.