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Wencheheng Hala: Families from Ula and Yehe

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Wencheheng clan appears in volume 48 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with branches from Ula and Yehe. Boerji of the Bordered Yellow Banner.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Wencheheng clan appears in volume 48 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with branches from Ula and Yehe. Boerji of the Bordered Yellow Banner submitted early. His son Esen became a niru commander and earned yunqiwei for service in the conquest; imperial favour later raised the hereditary grade to third-class qingche duwei. Descendants Wusantai and Wuer sai inherited it, although the latter's succession excluded increments previously added by favour.

Family Service and Distinctions

Another grandson, Bashan, served as niru commander and earned a separate military award in Yunnan, inherited by his son Jinbaozhu and grandson Shege. The great-grandson Wulai held concurrent appointments as commander of the guard units and niru officer. A brother's branch produced imperial guards, defence officers, vanguard company officers, and a separate posthumous military award.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

A Yehe branch descended from Wuyunzhu, also of the Bordered Yellow Banner, included Baozhu, a pasture supervisor, and Changshou, who earned qidu wei for conscientious service to the Yongzheng emperor as a guard-battalion commander. Changshou's descendant Haibao became head of an imperial palace office. Rewards for battlefield service and for special imperial favour should not be combined into one lineage's single award. Banner-command offices remained distinct from hereditary titles. The two branches' full kinship and dates remain unconfirmed.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
  2. Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
  3. Source reference 3 — zh.wikisource.org
  4. Source reference 4 — zh.wikisource.org

References reproduce links supplied with the Chinese research manuscript. Individual historical claims have not all been independently verified against the primary sources.