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The Zhuanta Clan

English editorial translation of the Chinese source entry

The Zhuanta clan is listed in fascicle 57 of the Genealogies of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, where its ancestral place is recorded as Nimacha. The first individual described is Zhezhong'e of the Plain White Banner. The genealogy states that his great-grandson Baiha form…

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Overview

The Zhuanta clan is listed in fascicle 57 of the Genealogies of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, where its ancestral place is recorded as Nimacha. The first individual described is Zhezhong'e of the Plain White Banner. The genealogy states that his great-grandson Baiha formerly served as an assistant director (yuanwailang). It also describes a fifth-generation descendant who held an infantry-officer position, but a character in that person's name is unclear in the available electronic transcription. The uncertain reading should not be supplied as a confident personal name.

Historical Background

Another individual named Aita belonged to the Plain White Banner, but the same entry explicitly says that his ancestral origin was unknown. Aita formerly served as an assistant commandant; his son Laidali held a cavalry-officer appointment, while his grandson Qilelun served as an editor or compiler (bianxiu). A third named person, Ersongge, also of the Plain White Banner, had an unrecorded place of origin and previously served as an infantry officer.

Sources and Interpretation

The compilation groups these individuals under the category of persons whose year of submission was unrecorded. No specific date can responsibly be inferred. A particularly important distinction concerns the phrase “resident at Nimacha” in the general clan heading: it does not establish that every separately listed person demonstrably originated there, since the entries for Aita and Ersongge expressly say otherwise. The lineage summary and evidence pertaining to individual households should therefore be read at their respective levels of certainty.

Sources and Bibliography

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