Jiahun Bayan

Overview

Jiahun Bayan is a member of the Irgen Gioro clan recorded in Volume 15 of the *General Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*. The verifiable information provided in the original entry includes his banner affiliation with the Bordered Red Banner, his ancestral home in "Sukede," and his category of submission as "who came to submit at the beginning of the dynasty." The Bordered Red Banner indicates the banner organizational structure of this branch as seen at the time of genealogy compilation; banner affiliation is information from Qing dynasty military and administrative records and household registration, and cannot directly replace clan affiliation, modern ethnicity, or place of birth. The genealogy records his resume as follows: his fourth-generation descendants, Hegou and Baoge, both originally served as garrison commanders. The kinship hierarchy and statuses such as "original" and "current" are retained as in the original entry. At this stage, we do not infer Jiahun Bayan's official position, rank, or birth and death from the official positions of his descendants. Related institutional terms should be understood in the Qing dynasty context: garrison commander was one of the basic military positions in the Eight Banners; his rank and specific assignments should be determined in conjunction with his assigned battalion, the period, and archival records. "Sukede" retains the historical place name spelling in genealogy books; there may be different places with the same name, different spellings, and changes in jurisdiction, so it cannot be directly matched with a certain administrative region today.