Mumulide Teh

Overview

Mumulide Teh is a member of the Ujara clan recorded in Volume 30 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*. He belonged to the Bordered Yellow Banner, and his family had lived in the Saharcha region for generations. The genealogy records that he led his clan to submit to the Later Jin dynasty at the beginning of the dynasty. The main facts about him are his banner affiliation, ancestral home, and leading his clan to submit; his later military service and hereditary titles must be attributed to his descendants according to the genealogy's generational structure.

His grandson, Burqina, served as a zuoling (banner-company commander), and Xitku served as a Vanguard Commander. His great-great-grandson, Gaohede, was among the first to scale the walls of Wuding Prefecture during the conquest of Shandong, earning the title of Baturu and the rank of Qiduwei and concurrently Yunqiwei. He later received further honors for his participation in the conquest of the Central Plains. After Gaohede's death, his brother, Zhongjida, inherited his position and received new titles for his military achievements; Zhongjida's son, Darzan, later served as General of Jingzhou. This line of succession includes grandfather, grandson, great-great-grandson, and collateral branches, and cannot be simplified to Mumulide Teh himself holding these official positions.

The same entry also records the military achievements and different changes in hereditary titles of great-grandsons such as Chouhede, Kurkude, and Sebilun. Among them, "appointed as military commander" should be distinguished from the formal appointment of an official title. The entry for Mumulidetehe explains that the official genealogy of the Qing Dynasty would take the early surrenderers as the center of family records, and continuously preserve the merits and titles of multiple generations of descendants, rather than writing a separate biographical biography for each subject.