Wei Zhuhu

Overview

Wei Zhuhu was a member of the Irgen Gioro clan in the early Qing Dynasty. His family had lived in Dong'an for generations and submitted to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the dynasty. Volume 15 of the official clan genealogy compiled during the Qianlong reign, *The General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, lists him under the Bordered White Banner, noting his change of affiliation from the Plain White Banner. Both the change in banner affiliation and his original identity should be preserved. The original entry did not specify his official position. His grandson, Nartai, held a sixth-rank official position; his great-grandson, Nahai, held a fifth-rank official position; Huase held a defense post; and Gabala held a military officer position. The military positions and ranks of his descendants cannot be transferred to their ancestors.

The fifth and sixth ranks only indicate rank and are insufficient to determine specific titles and ranks. They cannot be uniformly added as officers simply because someone of the same generation held a military position. Defense post was a military title; military officers participated in the management and guard duties of the guards; and cavalry officers participated in the affairs of the banner garrison. His great-grandson, Wu Ertai, was recorded as a deputy cavalry officer; the deputy position requirement cannot be deleted.

Numbers in the four-character and sixty-character categories should be treated as personal names, not numbers. His fourth-generation descendant, Naqiha, was a student of the Imperial Academy, indicating an educational background, not necessarily an official position. Dong'an is a historical place name and cannot be directly equated with a modern district or county with the same name; the year of the change of banner, the place of office of each person, the original characters of their names and the complete paternal lineage still need to be verified by the original inscriptions, local chronicles and archives.