Ai Huli

Overview

Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* includes Aihuli in the appendix of the Irgen Gioro clan. His banner affiliation is listed as Plain Yellow Banner, his ancestral home as "Changbai Mountain," and he is placed in the "Returning from Tiancong" group. "Returning from Tiancong" is the genealogy's grouping for submission; Tiancong was the reign title of Huang Taiji. The original entry did not specify the year and month, so the timeframe cannot be narrowed further. Plain Yellow Banner indicates the banner affiliation of this branch as seen at the time of the genealogy's 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 grandson, Lamise, was formerly a junior official; his great-grandson, Zhaomin, was formerly a cavalry captain. The kinship hierarchy and statuses such as "former" and "current" are retained as in the original entry. At this stage, Aihuli's official position, rank, or birth and death are not inferred from the official positions of his descendants. The relevant institutional terms should be understood according to the Qing Dynasty context: Xiaoqixiao was a grassroots military officer under the Eight Banners Zuoling system, who assisted in the management, training and dispatch of bannermen, and was not a modern school title; Yuanwailang was usually a subordinate official under the Langzhong of the central government, but the original article did not mention the government office, so it can only be interpreted as a general rank and a civil service position.