Turkun Huangzhan

Overview

Turkun Huangzhan was a member of the Zhangjia clan of the Bordered White Banner. Volume 40 of the official Qing dynasty genealogy, *The Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, records him as the great-grandson of Huluhuchangjinai, whose family had lived in Feiyalang'a for generations. At the beginning of the dynasty, he led over a hundred households to submit to the Qing, and a zuoling (banner-company commander) was appointed to manage them. This branch was transferred from the Plain Blue Banner. The "over a hundred households" refers to a unit of households, not over a hundred soldiers; the transfer of affiliation indicates a change in banner affiliation.

His eldest son, Kaltara, participated in the campaigns of entering the pass and Jiangxi as a military officer, repeatedly receiving hereditary titles and rising to the rank of Military Commander. He died in battle at Hengzhou and was posthumously awarded the title of Third-Class Baron, with the posthumous name Zhongzhuang. Military Officer and Commander were substantive positions, while Baron was a hereditary rank. The posthumous title was an evaluation after death and should not be confused with an official title or attributed to Turkun Huangzhan himself.

Kaltar's third son, Hetehe, inherited the title but died in battle in Xiamen, and was posthumously awarded the rank of Qiduwei. This newly added hereditary title, along with the third-class baronial title inherited from his father, were later passed down to relatives, forming two separate lines of succession. Hereditary titles from different sources cannot be simply added together to claim that one person held them indefinitely, nor can the deaths of father and son be combined into a single event. The complete relationship between these two successions, the dates of the transfer of ownership, and the specific battle times require verification from original inscriptions and archives.