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Wendu Hala: Clan Branches from the Neyin River and Northeast

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Wendu clan appears in volume 51 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with members from the Neyin River region and other northeastern.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Wendu clan appears in volume 51 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with members from the Neyin River region and other northeastern settlements. Langge of the Bordered White Banner submitted with more than one hundred households and managed their new niru. His sons included Balin, a vanguard company officer; Yangnai, a ministry director and niru commander; and Zhongnei, another company commander who earned qidu wei in campaigns in Guizhou and near Zhenjiang. Having no heir, Zhongnei was succeeded by a grandnephew, Ne'ertai, and subsequently by a person named Liushisi (“Sixty-Four”).

Family Service and Distinctions

Descendants held additional posts as vice censors-in-chief, censors, grand secretariat scholars, and governors-general of Sichuan and Shaanxi. The genealogy also records different branches descending from Langge's brothers; it is not a single uninterrupted list of father-son relationships. Another Plain Yellow Banner line, descended from Zhaolang of Suifen, included Niyahuli, who earned yunqiwei on campaigns in Yunnan and Guizhou while acting as a guard-company officer.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

Other Wendu lines were associated with Hunchun, the Zhan River, Warka, and Ussuri Ula. A concurrent ministry directorship and niru command combined separate duties. The positions of censor and governor-general likewise concerned different state institutions. Settlement sites, affiliations, and distant genealogy remain to be verified.

Sources and Bibliography

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