Buhana

Overview

Buhana was a member of the Ulanara clan of the Bordered Red Banner in the early Qing Dynasty. He was the son of Taifeika, the eldest son of Guduzhuyan, and his ancestral home was Ulanara. He submitted to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of its rule. The specific details of his life are concentrated in Volume 23 of the official Qing Dynasty clan genealogy, *the Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*: his great-grandson, Mengkulu, served as Deputy Commander-in-Chief, participating in battles near Beijing and in Shandong. He died in battle at Jinzhou and was posthumously awarded the title of Qiduwei (hereditary merit rank). His son, Baiyinda, inherited the title and participated in the conquest of the Central Plains and the battles in Tingzhou, Fujian. He was granted hereditary titles and later served as Vice Minister of Rites and Deputy Commander-in-Chief concurrently as a zuoling (a military officer). Deputy Commander-in-Chief and zuoling were banner-level military and political officials, while the Vice Minister of Rites assisted in managing central affairs such as state rites. Qiduwei (hereditary merit rank) and Qingche duwei (hereditary merit rank) were hereditary titles and not part of the same promotion sequence. This branch of the family later died out. In the eleventh year of the Yongzheng Emperor's reign, the court investigated the extinction of hereditary titles and appointed Bailing'a, the great-great-grandson of Mengkulu's uncle, as his successor, who inherited the title of Yunqiwei (a military officer). This was an arrangement for the continuation of a collateral branch's lineage, not a natural succession of the original position to the next military officer. The text also records that the great-grandson Bai Yinbu participated in the campaigns against Chahar and Galdan, and served as the General of Jingzhou. His experience belongs to another descendant and cannot be combined with that of Mengkulu or Buhana.