Yang Guoli

Overview

Yang Guoli was a member of the Lijia clan of the Plain Red Banner during the early Qing Dynasty. Volume 33 of the officially compiled *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* records that his family originally resided in Lijia and Luo, and submitted to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the dynasty. His son, Harba, served as a sixth-rank official, and his grandson, Tianbao, served as a Qiduwei. Delken participated in the military campaign against Geng Jingzhong as a defender, and died in battle at Shitang, receiving the posthumous title of Yunqiwei.

The sixth-rank official designation only indicates the rank range and does not directly specify Harba's position or rank. The Qiduwei was responsible for the military affairs of his assigned cavalry, defense was a banner-level military post, and Yunqiwei was a hereditary title awarded for merit, its posthumous reward differing from the actual military rank. Delken's battle clearly belonged to his grandson and cannot be attributed to Yang Guoli's death.

After Delken's death, his grandson, Sanahai, inherited the title. Sanahai was dismissed due to some incident, and his brother, Fobao, then inherited it. The original genealogy also records that Yang Guoli's great-grandson, Changbao, served as a Langzhong, a civil administrative position. The generational relationships in the inheritance should be preserved as in the original text and should not be supplemented to form a continuous father-son chain. The location of Shitang, the intermediate generations of each branch, and the image of the character Yang need to be verified against the original printed source, while the original names will continue to be preserved.