Yemeng'e of the Irgen Gioro Clan

Banner identity and historical setting

Yemeng'e, whose Chinese headword includes an uncommon character, appears in volume 14 of the official *Comprehensive Genealogy of the Eight Banner Manchu Clans*. He belonged to an Irgen Gioro household registered as *booi* within the Bordered Blue Banner. The family was associated with Hada and entered the Manchu polity during the Tiancong reign under Hong Taiji. The first Chinese character in his recorded name does not establish an unrelated Han-Chinese Ye surname, and the genealogy names no office held by Yemeng'e personally.

Descendants and kinds of service

His son Yeheli formerly served as a *hujunxiao*, an officer of the Guard. Two grandsons, Daida and Xituku, formerly held posts as *hujunxiao* and *muchang* (head of a livestock-pasturing establishment), respectively. A great-grandson, Warda, was recorded merely as a sixth-rank official, without the title needed to determine his work. A more distant descendant, Qishijiu—represented in Chinese by the characters for “seventy-nine”—was listed as a serving *xiaoqixiao*. That numerical-looking expression is a personal name, not a number of serving soldiers.

*Booi* indicated a particular institutional and household affiliation within the Banner system. The Guard officer, pasturing supervisor and cavalry officer were not equivalent posts, and the genealogy does not identify an imperial or princely establishment that employed them.

Limits of reconstruction

Generational designations should not be made into a complete father–son pedigree where intervening names are missing. Repeated appointment as *hujunxiao* does not demonstrate hereditary transmission of one post. The allegiance year within Tiancong, the unit responsible for the *booi* household, the pastoral location and the exact historical site in Hada all require additional documentary support.