Basong of the Irgen Gioro Clan

Origins

Basong was an early Qing member of the Irgen Gioro clan of the Plain Yellow Banner, associated with the historical locality of Aiha. His family joined the Manchu polity in its early period. Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans* identifies no office personally held by Basong. It instead supplies a comparatively varied list of later family appointments.

Sons and grandsons

Basong's son Fakuna formerly served as a *zuoling*, commander of a Banner company. Grandson Dumin held the combined appointments of *canling* and *zuoling*, while another grandson, Niyaha, formerly served as a first-class imperial guard. A company command, military supervisory appointment and imperial guardship had distinct duties. The fact that several descendants held military posts does not create a personal military record for Basong himself.

Later administrative and military offices

Among the great-grandsons, Furehu formerly served as a *langzhong* departmental officer; Xileng held an appointment transcribed as an officer responsible for guarding or maintaining signal cannon; and Suge held the historically evolving military designation *beiyu*. The department employing Furehu is not identified. The cannon-related office should be retained provisionally under the source title, rather than converted without evidence into command of an artillery force. Nor should *beiyu* be assigned a fixed late-Qing rank without checking its historical context.

Further descendants are listed as *youji* military officers, imperial guard officers, *yuanwailang* administrators and *bitieshi* clerks. The genealogy also records *jiansheng* and *shengyuan* educational statuses, which did not themselves constitute appointments.

Source limitations

The historical site of Aiha, the exact institutional form of the cannon-guard office and the missing intervening paternal links require further evidence. Names and titles cannot reliably be combined into one succession history merely because they appear within the same clan entry.