Xiao Zi

Overview

Xiao Zi appears in Volume 75 of the *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners* under the entry for members of the Plain White Banner's bondservant system. His family had long resided in Shenyang. The original record does not specify the year of his arrival or return to the Manchu fold, nor does it provide any official position or exact birth and death dates for Xiao Zi himself. The positions mentioned in the text primarily come from his descendants.

His son, Sanqiha, once served as Deputy Inner Banner Commander, and Wang Huamin once served as Stable Chief. His grandson, Baojin, served as a Military Officer at the time of compilation; his great-grandsons, Changtai, served as Clerk; Gongyi as Assistant Director; Saishang'a as Colonel; and Huibao as Stable Chief. The Deputy Inner Banner Commander was a bondservant-affiliated administrative position, the Stable Chief managed stable affairs, the Military Officer and Colonel were military posts, while the Clerk and Assistant Director were primarily involved in clerical and departmental affairs.

The genealogy does not specify which son's branch each of the four great-grandsons belonged to, so the father-son relationship cannot be artificially established based on the order of the listing. The value of this passage lies in preserving clues about the banner system, the ancestral home in Shenyang, and the distribution of official positions across generations of the family; it is not possible to fabricate that Xiao Zi himself had held these positions based on the fact that his descendants served in different institutions.