Genealogical setting
Dalkuan was a member of the Irgen Gioro clan of the Plain Blue Banner, associated with Dobaku. The family entered the Manchu polity in its early period. Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* gives no substantive appointment for Dalkuan himself. It instead recounts the military merit of a later descendant, Hudali, and the civil careers of other family members.
Hudali's military distinction
Hudali, described as a later-generation descendant without a current official post, joined fighting around Bazhou in Shandong and was the third man to mount the walls in a ladder assault. He received the hereditary rank *yunqiwei*, with a later increase made under an imperial act of grace. The record specifically ranks him third rather than first in the assault; that detail should not be changed. In subsequent inheritance, the grant attributable to imperial grace was removed. Neither the assault nor the associated awards belongs to Dalkuan's personal career.
Civil and military offices in the family
Two fourth-generation descendants occupied significant administrative positions. Warda formerly served as vice minister in the Shengjing Board of Punishments, while Tardai served as head of the Office of Transmission, responsible for receiving and forwarding official memorials. These were distinct institutions, not hereditary military honours. Additional relatives are listed as guards, *zhushi* secretaries, *bitieshi* clerks, deputy Guard officers and *jiansheng* students. A deputy officer must not be upgraded to substantive rank, and the educational status *jiansheng* is not equivalent to appointment to office.
Sources and limits
The precise historical locality of Dobaku, the relationships connecting all generations, and the dates of military rewards and civilian appointments remain incompletely documented in the available entry.
Sources and Bibliography
- Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 5 — zh.wikisource.org
Source links were inherited from the research manuscript. Individual assertions have not all been independently verified against archival originals.
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