Household and Banner context
Danda appears in volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* as a member of the Irgen Gioro clan of the Plain Blue Banner *booi*. His family had an ancestral association with Erjing; the date of its submission was unknown to the genealogists. Danda himself formerly served as a *zuoling*, an officer responsible for a Banner company or *niru*. The status *booi* marked an institutional and household relationship inside the Banner system and did not exclude military or administrative appointment.
The careers of his sons
Danda's eldest son Hushita formerly held a fifth-rank *dianyi* appointment, an office associated with ceremonial work in a princely household. His second son Saizhu, recorded as a fourth-rank *dianyi*, also participated in fighting in Zhejiang and Fujian. Saizhu died in battle against Liu Guoxuan's forces at Haicheng and was posthumously granted the hereditary merit rank *qiduwei*. The fact that a *dianyi* usually had ceremonial duties must not erase Saizhu's recorded military experience; neither his campaign nor his posthumous distinction should be attributed to Danda.
Succession and other family members
Saizhu's son Qige inherited the title. After he died without a son, succession passed to Tongzhu, a grandson of a paternal uncle, and subsequently to Zhanchang. This hereditary succession did not constitute inheritance of Danda's company command. Other descendants—Sukesoli and Changbaozhu—formerly served as guards; Galaktu as a *zuoling*; and Hartu as an eighth-rank official whose precise title was not supplied.
Unresolved points
The original record does not identify the specific *booi* institution, the modern location of Erjing, the full collateral pedigree or the various duty stations. Those details require examination of the genealogy and Banner archives.
Sources and Bibliography
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- Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
- Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
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- 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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