Beida

Overview

Beida was a member of the Wuzhala clan of the Bordered White Banner during the early Qing Dynasty. Volume 30 of the official Qing Dynasty genealogy, *The Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, records that his family originally lived in the Heilongjiang region and submitted to the Qing during the Tiancong era. The Bordered White Banner was one of the Eight Banners, and banner registration was linked to military affairs and household registration. Tiancong was the reign title used by Huang Taiji during the Later Jin Dynasty; therefore, this submission information pertains to the period before the Qing conquest of China.

His son, Ayantu, participated in the attack on Nanpi County as a non-official, and after the second ascent of the city wall, he was awarded the title of Yunqiwei (hereditary merit rank). "Non-official" indicates a status within the banner without holding a corresponding official position; Yunqiwei was a hereditary title awarded by the court, not a military command position. After Ayantu's death, his son, Chuancheng, inherited the title, and was promoted to Qiduwei (hereditary merit rank) by imperial decree, later transferring to his relative, Nidule.

Subsequent succession passed through Foyuebao, Dingzhu, and Yongtai. When Yongtai inherited the title, the imperial decree's additional conferment was removed, but the Yunqiwei title was retained. Therefore, the original genealogy records the process of initial military merit-based conferment, the imperial decree's increase, and the later restoration of the original conferment, rather than all successors achieving the same military merit separately. The location of the ancestral home, the original printed source, and the relationship with the collateral branches need to be verified. The deeds of the son Xian Deng cannot be attributed to Bei Da himself.