Borhun

Overview

Borhun appears in the appendix to the Irgen Gioro clan in Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*. He is listed under the Bordered Blue Banner, his ancestral home is recorded as "Jilin Ula," and his affiliation is listed as "returning at the beginning of the dynasty." The Bordered Blue Banner indicates the banner organization as seen when the genealogy was compiled; 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 grandson Changbao was formerly a Guards Officer, and his great-grandson Tiezhu is currently a Commandant of the Imperial Guards. The kinship hierarchy and statuses such as "formerly" and "currently" are retained as in the original entries. At this stage, Borhun's official position, rank, or birth and death are not inferred from the official positions of his descendants. Related institutional terms should be understood in the Qing dynasty context: Guards Officer was a basic military rank in the Eight Banners Guards, mainly related to palace guards, attendants, and guard training assignments; Commandant of the Imperial Guards was a basic military rank in the Imperial Guards, responsible for palace guards and attendants. "Jilin Ula" 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.