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Wunie Hala: A Clan Entry Requiring Cross-Comparison

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Wunie clan is recorded in volume 56 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with Saharca as its ancestral region. Boshen of the Bordered White.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Wunie clan is recorded in volume 56 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, with Saharca as its ancestral region. Boshen of the Bordered White Banner submitted early. His grandson A'erchu fought at Huangcaoba in Yunnan as an acting janggin and earned yunqiwei for service against troops under He Jizu. Retiring because of illness, A'erchu was succeeded by Sandase, described as a great-grandson of A'erchu's paternal uncle. That collateral relationship should not be rewritten as direct father-to-son succession.

Family Service and Distinctions

An acting janggin held a temporary military assignment whose exact duties depend on its unit and period. The hereditary yunqiwei was a separate award for merit. A'erchu's success did not pass his acting commission automatically to the inheritor of his distinction.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

A passage concerning the Erji clan in volume 55 of the same genealogy contains closely parallel references to a Saharca ancestral home, A'erchu at Huangcaoba, and succession by Sandase. These records merit direct collation. Their similarity does not permit an unsupported decision that the surnames are identical, nor should it prompt the invention of two wholly separate biographies. For the moment, the lineage has been kept under the heading supplied in volume 56, with the cross-reference marked as unresolved.

Sources and Bibliography

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