Qishiba (personal name)

Overview

Qishiba is a personal name of a member of the Lijia clan of the Bordered Yellow Banner during the early Qing Dynasty. Volume 33 of the official Qing Dynasty genealogy, *The Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, records that they originally lived in Shenyang and submitted to the Qing Dynasty at the beginning of the dynasty. Their son, Wei Dengyun, served as a military officer and, due to his cautious and respectful service to the Yongzheng Emperor, was granted the special honor of being a Qiduwei, a position his son, Nerte, inherited. Nerte became a First-Class Imperial Guard, later succeeded by Defu. Qishiba is not a number or an estimate of age.

Military officers were responsible for leading and guarding troops, while First-Class Imperial Guards participated in the emperor's personal guard duties. The Qiduwei position was hereditary. Wei Dengyun's reward was based on his recorded service, not on previously recorded battlefield achievements; a campaign could not be added to unify other entries, nor could the reward be attributed to Qishiba himself.

Shenyang is present-day Shenyang City, Liaoning Province. The Later Jin Dynasty moved its capital there in 1625, and it became a secondary capital after the Qing Dynasty entered the Central Plains, providing the geographical background of this family. The original genealogy records "son," "his son," and "grandson," which involve the hierarchy of successors and should be compared with intermediate relatives; the names of the entrusted descendants, the period of service, and the generation of Defu should be verified in the original engraving.