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The Macha Clan

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The Macha clan appears in fascicle 58 of the official Genealogies of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. The record identifies two ancestral localities, Saiyin and Solon, rather than assigning the entire surname to a single place. Its separate notices also preserve differences…

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Overview

The Macha clan appears in fascicle 58 of the official Genealogies of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. The record identifies two ancestral localities, Saiyin and Solon, rather than assigning the entire surname to a single place. Its separate notices also preserve differences in Banner registration and in the periods under which individual forebears were recorded as having submitted to the Qing state.

Historical Background

For the Saiyin branch, the genealogy names Hushika as a member of the Bordered Blue Banner. It states that his son Boerjin formerly served as a defensive officer (fangyu) and his grandson Murtai as a Banner company commander (zuoling). Hushika is listed among individuals who submitted in the early Qing period. The Solon notice identifies Hular Dai as a member of the Plain White Banner and a former third-class imperial guard, grouped among those who submitted during the Tiancong reign. “Early submission” and “submission during Tiancong” are different classificatory descriptions; they cannot be rewritten as proof that the two men arrived in the same year.

Sources and Interpretation

The compilation documents two historical concentrations of the surname without supplying an unbroken genealogical chain between them. A further complication appears in fascicle 61, where Macha is also recorded as an ancestral place name associated with the Zhaolei clan. The same written form can thus function in different contexts as a clan designation and as a toponym. A place-name notice should not be mistaken for a genealogy of the Macha clan.

Sources and Bibliography

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