Wuxing'e of the Irgen Gioro Clan

Family origins and Banner registration

Wuxing'e was an early Qing military figure of the Irgen Gioro clan whose ancestral geographical association was Changbai Mountain. Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* registers the family under the Bordered White Banner and expressly notes a transfer from the Plain White Banner. His family joined the Manchu polity in its early period. This registration change must be retained rather than presenting the family's Banner affiliation as static.

Military service and hereditary rank

Starting from an unattached Banner status, Wuxing'e participated in military operations at Ninghai Prefecture in Shandong. The genealogy credits him as the second man to scale the defences. His merit brought him the hereditary rank *yunqiwei*, later increased three times under imperial acts of grace to third-class *qingche duwei*. He also formerly held the substantive military appointment of *chengshouwei*, a garrison or city-defence officer. Hereditary merits and actual command positions were separate elements of his career; “second” should not be rewritten as “first.”

Successors and geographical caution

His son Lizhu inherited the hereditary dignity and formerly served as a *xieling*, or assistant Banner commander. When his grandson Baketa later succeeded, increments derived from imperial grace were removed, leaving the inherited rank at *yunqiwei*. Subsequent succession passed through a brother, Setai, and a nephew's branch represented by Foqin. The sequence is therefore not an uninterrupted father-to-son line.

Changbai Mountain is a historical northeastern regional designation. It should not automatically be reduced to the present-day tourist precinct of the mountain or a specific village. The campaign date, garrison posting, date of Banner transfer and collateral succession details require independent corroboration.