Kokoli

Overview

Kokoli is a member of the Bordered Yellow Banner under the "Guohun Clan" in Volume 58 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners*, whose family resided in the Heilongjiang region. The original text explicitly states that he himself served as a zuoling (military officer); his son, Erhetu, also served as a zuoling, as did his grandson, Zhuoerdai, thus providing direct records of several generations holding this position within their branch.

The same genealogical entry also records that his grandson, Weitun, served as a Third-Class Imperial Guard when the genealogy was being compiled, his great-grandson, Yaertu, also served as a Third-Class Imperial Guard, and Gongjinbao served as a Xiaoqi Xiao (a military officer). This indicates that the family's descendants did not hold only one official position; the roles of zuoling, Imperial Guard, and Xiaoqi Xiao should be described separately according to their respective institutional responsibilities. The book lists Kokoli's group as those who came to the family during the Tiancong era, but does not specify his birth date or the date of his individual arrival.

While the fact that several generations of his family served as zuoling is valuable for research, this passage alone is insufficient to determine that each person successively inherited the same hereditary zuoling vacancy. The original boundaries of the ancestral homeland in Heilongjiang should be preserved, and it is not appropriate to directly convert them into a specific modern county or city.