Anjitu

Overview

Anjitu appears in Volume 15 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, under the section on the Irgen Gioro clan. He belongs to the Bordered Blue Banner and his family has lived in Huifa for generations, listed in the "Returning Home During the Tiancong Era" group. The genealogy records that Anjitu himself was originally a military officer, and his son, Li Manse, was originally a sixth-rank official. A military officer was a military rank within the Eight Banners' military organization during the Qing Dynasty, primarily related to military training and guard duties; the "sixth-rank official" only proves Li Manse's official rank and cannot be used to infer his specific government office or post. The original text mentions "bondservant Selebu" at this point, but whether "bondservant" consecutively covers adjacent entries such as Anjitu's requires verification based on the original printing format. Therefore, this only confirms his affiliation with the Bordered Blue Banner and does not directly determine that Anjitu himself was a bondservant. The so-called "Huifa" is an old place name preserved in the genealogy and should not be equated with a modern administrative region without geographical verification. The genealogy only lists the group that submitted during the Tiancong period, without recording the exact year, birth and death years, or the family's subsequent evolution; the fact that it records the father and son should be understood separately from the general background of the Eight Banners system.