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Kongnila Hala: Officers and Clerks of a Heilongjiang Lineage

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Kongnila clan is included in volume 62 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, which gives Heilongjiang as its ancestral region. A forebear named.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Kongnila clan is included in volume 62 of the Comprehensive Genealogy of Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners, which gives Heilongjiang as its ancestral region. A forebear named Tushouwu belonged to the Plain Blue Banner, submitted early, and served as a cavalry-company officer. Later generations included Na'ertai, a bithesi; Gesou, a defence officer; and Biladai, likewise a defence officer when the genealogy was compiled.

Family Service and Distinctions

The genealogy arranges individuals by generation. A cavalry-company officer supervised banner troops at the unit level; a defence officer had other responsibilities within garrison or banner administration. Descendants described as fifth-generation or fourth-generation relatives cannot automatically be placed in an uninterrupted father-son chain merely by their order of appearance in the printed account.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

A bithesi, the Manchu term corresponding to the Chinese title bitie shi, worked with administrative records, copying, and translation. Na'ertai's appointment illustrates participation in documentary administration alongside the family's military positions. Heilongjiang is here a broad ancestral geographical designation, not a verified modern county. Tushouwu's exact posting, household migration, and genealogical details are still to be verified.

Sources and Bibliography

  1. Source reference 1 — zh.wikisource.org
  2. Source reference 2 — zh.wikisource.org
  3. Source reference 3 — gerel.net
  4. Source reference 4 — dict.revised.moe.edu.tw
  5. Source reference 5 — 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.