Bordered Blue Banner
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| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| unit_name | Bordered Blue Banner |
| image | Bordered Blue Banner.svg |
| caption | Flag of the Bordered Blue Banner |
| dates | 1615–1912 |
| country | Later Jin |
| Qing dynasty | |
| commander5 | Amin The Emperor |
| command_structure | Eight Banners |
| type | Cavalry |
| Musketeers | |
| :: |
| unit_name = Bordered Blue Banner | image = Bordered Blue Banner.svg | caption = Flag of the Bordered Blue Banner | dates = 1615–1912 | country = Later Jin Qing dynasty | commander5 = Amin The Emperor | command_structure = Eight Banners | type = Cavalry Musketeers |pic= |piccap= |picsize= |pictooltip= |t= 鑲藍旗 |s= 镶蓝旗 |p= xiānglánqí |w= |mi= |suz= |y= |ci= |j= | poj = | tl = |mnc= ᡴᡠᠪᡠᡥᡝ ᠯᠠᠮᡠᠨ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ |mnc_rom= kubuhe lamun gūsa |mnc_a= |mnc_v= |mong= |mon = Хөвөөт хөх хошуу |monr= |c2= The Bordered Blue Banner () was one of the Eight Banners of Manchu military and society during the Later Jin and Qing dynasty of China. It was one of the lower five banners. According to the general annals of the Eight Banners, the Bordered Blue Banner was one of the banners located on the south right wing (Blue banners are located southward, the Plain Blue Banner being on the south left wing).
This banner was first commanded by Amin (2nd rank of the Four Senior Beiles), the eldest son of Šurhaci and then transferred to his younger brother Jirgalang. After Amin lost favor with Hong Taiji, the Bordered Blue Banner was assigned to Jirgalang. By the blood of its commanders the Bordered Blue Banner was the remotest banner out of the Eight Banners; as all the other banners were led by descendants of Nurhaci. Due to its genealogical status, this banner was usually seen as the last banner of the Eight Banners although there were no concrete laws to officially acknowledge this status.
Some parts of Haixi Jurchens were incorporated into this banner after the defeat of the Haixi Jurchens by Jianzhou Jurchens.
Notable members
- Anfiyanggū (Founding Manchu officer and a member of the Giorca clan)
- Amin (Manchu noble, son of Šurhaci)
- Jirgalang (Manchu noble, son of Šurhaci)
- Empress Dowager Cixi
- Empress Nara
- Sushun of Aisin-Gioro
- Shang Kexi
- Duanhua
- Gu Taiqing
- Šarhūda
- Imperial Noble Consort Xianzhe
- Noble Consort Yu
- Consort Chang
- Imperial Noble Consort Dunhui
- Noble Consort Xun (Consort to the Qianlong Emperor)
Notable clans
- Irgen Gioro
- Sirin Gioro
- Šušu Gioro
- Hešeri
- Nara clan
- Gogiya
- Keliyete
- Shang
- Giorca
References
Bibliography
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{{citation |last=Elliott|first=Mark C. |author-link=Mark Elliott (historian) |title=The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China |year=2001 |publisher=Stanford University Press |isbn=9780804746847 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_qtgoTIAiKUC
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{{citation | last = Wakeman Jr. | first = Frederic | author-link = Frederic Wakeman | year = 1985 | title = The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China | publisher = University of California Press | location = Berkeley | isbn = 0520048040 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=8nXLwSG2O8AC
References
- General annals of the Eight Banners.vol 30
- Meng, Sen. (2011). "Notes on the history of the Ming and qing dynasties". 商务印书馆.
- General annals of the Eight Banners.vol 16
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