The Study On The General Genealogy Of The Manchuria Clan

The Qing Dynasty is the last feudal system country of China, and the last dynastyruled by minority nationality. In more than200year`s rule, as the rulers, thepopulation grows more and more. The emperor Qianlong decreed to draft out theGeneral Genealogy of The Manchuria Clan in order to make a statistics of thepopulation of the Manchuria.The genealogy is a volume records inheriting and achievement of their family ortheir clan. It can offer the development and immigration of this family or clan for thedescendants, so we can call them “the family history book”. This paper, I study on theGeneral Genealogy of The Manchuria Clan, which called “the family history book”relates to the general Manchuria clan. Though there were some researches of theManchuria surname, clan or genealogies before, a few people study on the book itself,the General Genealogy of The Manchuria Clan, so we still have much more space toresearch. Through arranging this genealogy, combined with the relevant historicalmaterials, we could know the population of the early emperor, constituent of clan,habitat and immigration of nationality, achievement of mainly humans. It is extremelyhelpful to research early Manchuria people, the history before Qing dynasty, and thehistory of the Qing Dynasty for us.This paper consists of four parts: the first part of the prolegomenon, mainly talkabout purpose, significant, and achievement; the second part is the summary,including author, creation, spreading and so on. The third part is the main body,introduces the content of the General Genealogy of The Manchuria Clan, includingoriginal Manchuria surnames and Manchuria other surnames, and focuses ondiscussing the mainly parts of the original Manchuria surnames. And the last part, it`sthe value of the General Genealogy of The Manchuria Clan.