Guluge Chuhuer

Overview

Guluge Chuhuer was a member of the Nara clan of the Plain White Banner during the early Qing Dynasty. His family's original genealogy records that they had lived in the Yehe region for generations. Volume 22 of the official Qing Dynasty genealogy, *The Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, records that during the Tiancong era, the Chahar tribe plundered people from Guihua City and moved them to the Tangut region. Guluge Chuhuer collected these people and submitted them to Huang Taiji, receiving the rank of First-Class Baron. Those he collected were organized into Banner Zuoling (banner commanders) under his command, and he remained in Guihua City. After the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, he received the rank of Third-Class Viscount and served as a Commander-in-Chief. Tiancong was Huang Taiji's reign title before entering the Central Plains, indicating that the collection of people and the organization of banners occurred in the early stages of the regime's development. Banner Zuoling was a basic unit of the Eight Banners, sharing the same name as its governing officials; Baron and Viscount were hereditary titles for meritorious officials, while Commander-in-Chief was the actual military and political leader. These three categories of information should be understood separately. The biography then records that his son Wu Bashidai and grandson Ayuxi inherited the title, and that several generations of his descendants served as Commander-in-Chief, Deputy Commander, and Zuoling. This section details the migration of people, the establishment of zuoling (military units), and their residence in Guihua City. It is wrong to write all the collected people as Manchus without verification simply because the book is titled "Manchu Clan," or to attribute all the positions held by their descendants to the person in question.