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Xikejila Hala: Families of the Heilongjiang Region

Ancestral localities, banner affiliation, and genealogical evidence

The Xikejila clan is recorded in volume 55 of the Qianlong Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. Its members lived in the Heilongjiang region. The.

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Clan and Banner Background

The Xikejila clan is recorded in volume 55 of the Qianlong Comprehensive Genealogy of the Manchu Clans of the Eight Banners. Its members lived in the Heilongjiang region. The principal recorded family descended from Sa'erqi, of the Plain Yellow Banner; the year of his submission was not established. A second man of the same clan, Songji'ertu, was also registered in the Plain Yellow Banner and associated with Heilongjiang, but the original work likewise gives no definite submission year for him.

Family Service and Distinctions

Sa'erqi's grandson Mukexita served as a third-class imperial bodyguard and participated in the campaign against Galdan. He was awarded the hereditary distinction yunqiwei for military service. After his death the award passed to his son Shande. In the other family, Songji'ertu's son Bu'ersun served as an infantry officer, while his grandson Niyarezan held an assistant command in the guard establishment at the time of compilation.

Kinship, Succession, and Evidence

A third-class imperial bodyguard, an infantry officer and an assistant guard-colonel belonged to different service hierarchies. The inherited yunqiwei was neither an operational office nor a guarantee that Shande inherited his father's personal bodyguard appointment. Heilongjiang is a broad historical geographic description; the precise settlements and the original character forms of the later names still need checking. Source: Eight Banners Manchu Clan Genealogy, vol. 55.

Sources and Bibliography

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