Ji happy

Overview

Jixi is a member of the Irgen Gioro clan recorded in Volume 15 of the *the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*. The verifiable information provided in the original entry includes his affiliation with the Plain White Banner, his ancestral home in "Huifa," and his category of submission as "coming to power at the beginning of the dynasty." The genealogy records his career as follows: his son, Muli, originally served as a sixth-rank official, and his grandson, Liuge, originally served as an eighth-rank official. The kinship hierarchy and statuses such as "former" and "current" are retained as in the original entry. At this stage, we do not infer Jixi's official position, rank, or birth and death from the official positions of his descendants. Related institutional terms must be understood within the context of the Qing Dynasty: "eighth-rank official" only records the rank and cannot be used to infer specific government offices and responsibilities; "official" refers to rituals, ceremonies, and the execution of ceremonies; descriptions such as "sixth-rank official" still include rank information, but cannot be used to infer all responsibilities without considering the affiliated institution. "Huifa" retains the historical place name spelling from the genealogy; different places, spellings, and changes in jurisdiction are all possible, and it cannot be directly correlated with a specific administrative region today.