Manchu people

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Manchu
ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ
Total population
10,682,263
Regions with significant populations
China Mainland China10,410,585 (2010 census)[1]
Taiwan Taiwan12,000 (2004 estimate)[2]
Hong Kong Hong Kong1,000 (1997 estimate)[3]
Japan Japan1,000
Languages
Mandarin Chinese
Manchu
Religion
Manchu shamanism, Buddhism, Chinese folk religion, Atheism and Roman Catholicism
Related ethnic groups
Han Chinese, other Tungusic peoples
Especially Sibes , Nanais , Ulchi and Jaegaseung

The Manchus (

ethnic group native to Manchuria in Northeast Asia. They are an officially recognized ethnic minority in China and the people from whom Manchuria derives its name.[4][5] The Later Jin (1616–1636) and Qing (1636–1912) dynasties of China were established and ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty
(1115–1234) in northern China. Manchus form the largest branch of the
Kuandian, Huanren, Fengcheng, BeizhenB and over 300 Manchu towns and townships.[6] Manchus are the largest minority group in China without an autonomous region
.

Name

"Manchu" (Manchu: ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ, Möllendorff: manju) was adopted as the official name of the people by Emperor Hong Taiji in 1635, replacing the earlier name "Jurchen". It appears that manju was an old term for the Jianzhou Jurchens, although the etymology is not well understood.[7]: 63 

The

Mañjuśrī.[10] The Qianlong Emperor also supported the point of view and even wrote several poems on the subject.[11]
: 6 

Meng Sen, a scholar of the Qing dynasty, agreed. On the other hand, he thought the name Manchu might stem from Li Manzhu (李滿住), the chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens.[11]: 4–5 

Another scholar, Chang Shan, thinks Manju is a compound word. Man was from the word mangga (ᠮᠠᠩᡤᠠ) which means "strong," and ju (ᠵᡠ) means "arrow." So Manju actually means "intrepid arrow".[12]

There are other hypotheses, such as

Fu Sinian's "etymology of Jianzhou"; Zhang Binglin's "etymology of Manshi"; Ichimura Sanjiro's "etymology of Wuji and Mohe"; Sun Wenliang's "etymology of Manzhe"; "etymology of mangu(n) river" and so on.[13][14][15]

An extensive etymological study from 2022 lends additional support to the view that manju is cognate with words referring to the lower Amur river in other Tungusic languages and can be reconstructed to Proto-Tungusic *mamgo 'lower Amur, large river'.[16]

History

Origins and early history

Jurchen Jin

The Manchus are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier established the Jin dynasty (1115–1234) in China.[17][18]: 5 [19] The name Mohe might refer to an ancestral population of the Manchus. The Mohe practiced pig farming extensively and were mainly sedentary,[20] and also used both pig and dog skins for coats. They were predominantly farmers and grew soybeans, wheat, millet and rice, in addition to hunting.[20]

In the 10th century AD, the term

Khitans on the steppes.[23][24] Most Jurchens raised pigs and stock animals and were farmers.[25]

In 1019, Jurchen pirates

bakufu sent a message to Korea via Tsushima offering help to Korea against the 1627 Manchu invasion of Korea. Korea refused it.[34]

Following the fall of Balhae, the Jurchens became vassals of the

Jin–Song wars.[42]: 47–67  During the Jin dynasty, the first Jurchen script came into use in the 1120s. It was mainly derived from the Khitan script.[42]: 19–46  Poor Jurchen families in the southern Routes (Daming and Shandong) Battalion and Company households tried to live the lifestyle of wealthy Jurchen families and avoid doing farming work by selling their own Jurchen daughters into slavery and renting their land to Han tenants. The Wealthy Jurchens feasted and drank and wore damask and silk. The History of Jin (Jinshi) says that Emperor Shizong of Jin took note and in 1181 attempted to halt these practices.[25]

In 1206, the

Yehe Nara
clan is of paternal Mongol origin.

Many Jurchen families descended from the original Jin Jurchen migrants in Han areas like those using the surnames Wang and Nian 粘 have openly reclaimed their ethnicity and registered as Manchus. Wanyan (完顏) clan members who had changed their surnames to Wang (王) after the Mongol conquest of the Jin dynasty applied successfully to the PRC government for their ethnic group to be marked as Manchu despite never having been part of the Eight Banner system at all during the Qing dynasty. The surname Nianhan (粘罕), shortened to Nian () is a Jurchen origin surname, also originating from one of the members of the royal Wanyan clan. It is an extremely rare surname in China, and 1,100 members of the Nian clan live in Nan'an, Quanzhou, they live in Licheng district of Quanzhou, 900 in Jinjiang, Quanzhou, 40 in Shishi city of Quanzhou, and 500 in Quanzhou city itself in Fujian, and just over 100 people in Xiamen, Jin'an district of Fuzhou, Zhangpu and Sanming, as well as 1000 in Laiyang, Shandong, and 1,000 in Kongqiao and Wujiazhuang in Xingtai, Hebei. Some of the Nian from Quanzhou immigrated to Taiwan, Singapore and Malaysia. In Taiwan they are concentrated in Lukang township and Changhua city of Changhua county as well as in Dingnien village, Xianne village Fuxing township of Changhua county. There are less than 30,000 members of the Nian clan worldwide, with 9,916 of them in Taiwan, and 3,040 of those in Fuxing township of Changhua county and its most common in Dingnian village.

During the transition between the Ming and Qing Zhang Sunzhen, a civilian official in Nanjing himself remarked that he had a portrait of his ancestors wearing Manchu clothes because his family were Tartars so it was appropriate that he was going to shave his head into the Manchu hairstyle when the queue order was given.[46][47]

The Mongol-led

Huligai.[11]: 97, 120  Their elites served in the Korean royal bodyguard.[7]
: 15 

The Joseon Koreans tried to deal with the military threat posed by the Jurchen by using both forceful means and incentives, and by launching military attacks. At the same time they tried to appease them with titles and degrees, traded with them, and sought to

Nurgan. The Jurchens became part of the Ming dynasty's Nurgan Regional Military Commission under the Yongle Emperor, with Ming forces erecting the Yongning Temple Stele in 1413, at the headquarters of Nurgan. The stele was inscribed in Chinese, Jurchen, Mongolian, and Tibetan. Yishiha
, who was a Jurchen eunuch slave in the Ming imperial palace after he was captured and castrated as a boy by Ming Chinese forces, was the one who led the Ming expedition into Nurgan to erect the stele and established the Nurgan Regional Military Commission.

In 1449,

Zhengtong Emperor in Tumu. Some Jurchen guards in Jianzhou and Haixi cooperated with Esen's action,[6]: 185  but more were attacked in the Mongol invasion. Many Jurchen chieftains lost their hereditary certificates granted by the Ming government.[11]: 19  They had to present tribute as secretariats (中書舍人) with less reward from the Ming court than in the time when they were heads of guards – an unpopular development.[11]: 130  Subsequently, more and more Jurchens recognised the Ming Empire's declining power due to Esen's invasion. The Zhengtong Emperor's capture directly caused Jurchen guards to go out of control.[11]: 19, 21  Tribal leaders, such as CungšanD and Wang Gao, brazenly plundered Ming territory. At about this time, the Jurchen script was officially abandoned.[54]: 120  More Jurchens adopted Mongolian as their writing language and fewer used Chinese.[55] The final recorded Jurchen writing dates to 1526.[56]

The Manchus are sometimes mistakenly identified as nomadic people.[57][58][59]: 24 note 1  The Manchu way of life (economy) was agricultural, farming crops and raising animals on farms.[60] Manchus practiced slash-and-burn agriculture in the areas north of Shenyang.[61] The Haixi Jurchens were "semi-agricultural, the Jianzhou Jurchens and Maolian (毛憐) Jurchens were sedentary, while hunting and fishing was the way of life of the "Wild Jurchens".[62] Han Chinese society resembled that of the sedentary Jianzhou and Maolian, who were farmers.[63] Hunting, archery on horseback, horsemanship, livestock raising, and sedentary agriculture were all part of the Jianzhou Jurchens' culture.[64] Although Manchus practiced equestrianism and archery on horseback, their immediate progenitors practiced sedentary agriculture.[65]: 43  The Manchus also partook in hunting but were sedentary.[66] Their primary mode of production was farming while they lived in villages, forts, and walled towns. Their Jurchen Jin predecessors also practiced farming.[67]

Only the Mongols and the northern "wild" Jurchen were semi-nomadic, unlike the mainstream Jiahnzhou Jurchens descended from the Jin dynasty who were farmers that foraged, hunted, herded and harvested crops in the Liao and Yalu river basins. They gathered ginseng root, pine nuts, hunted for came pels in the uplands and forests, raised horses in their stables, and farmed millet and wheat in their fallow fields. They engaged in dances, wrestling and drinking strong liquor as noted during midwinter by the Korean Sin Chung-il when it was very cold. These Jurchens who lived in the north-east's harsh cold climate sometimes half sunk their houses in the ground which they constructed of brick or timber and surrounded their fortified villages with stone foundations on which they built wattle and mud walls to defend against attack. Village clusters were ruled by beile, hereditary leaders. They fought each other's and dispensed weapons, wives, slaves and lands to their followers in them. This was how the Jurchens who founded the Qing lived and how their ancestors lived before the Jin. Alongside Mongols and Jurchen clans there were migrants from Liaodong provinces of Ming China and Korea living among these Jurchens in a cosmopolitan manner. Nurhaci who was hosting Sin Chung-il was uniting all of them into his own army, having them adopt the Jurchen hairstyle of a long queue and a shaved fore=crown and wearing leather tunics. His armies had black, blue, red, white and yellow flags. These became the Eight Banners, initially capped to 4 then growing to 8 with three different types of ethnic banners as Han, Mongol and Jurchen were recruited into Nurhaci's forces. Jurchens like Nurhaci spoke both their native Tungusic language and Chinese, adopting the Mongol script for their own language unlike the Jin Jurchen's Khitan derived script. They adopted Confucian values and practiced their shamanist traditions.[68]

The Qing stationed the "New Manchu" Warka foragers in Ningguta and attempted to turn them into normal agricultural farmers but then the Warka just reverted to hunter gathering and requested money to buy cattle for beef broth. The Qing wanted the Warka to become soldier-farmers and imposed this on them but the Warka simply left their garrison at Ningguta and went back to the Sungari river to their homes to herd, fish and hunt. The Qing accused them of desertion.[69]

建州毛憐則渤海大氏遺孽,樂住種,善緝紡,飲食服用,皆如華人,自長白山迤南,可拊而治也。 "The (people of)

Ch'ang-pai mountain
are apt to be soothed and governed."

魏焕《皇明九邊考》卷二《遼東鎮邊夷考》[70] Translation from Sino-Jürčed relations during the Yung-Lo period, 1403–1424 by Henry Serruys[71]

Although their Mohe ancestors did not respect dogs, the Jurchens began to respect dogs around the time of the Ming dynasty, and passed this tradition on to the Manchus. It was prohibited in Jurchen culture to use dog skin, and forbidden for Jurchens to harm, kill, or eat dogs. For political reasons, the Jurchen leader Nurhaci chose variously to emphasize either differences or similarities in lifestyles with other peoples like the Mongols.[72]: 127  Nurhaci said to the Mongols that "the languages of the Chinese and Koreans are different, but their clothing and way of life is the same. It is the same with us Manchus (Jušen) and Mongols. Our languages are different, but our clothing and way of life is the same." Later Nurhaci indicated that the bond with the Mongols was not based in any real shared culture. It was for pragmatic reasons of "mutual opportunism," since Nurhaci said to the Mongols: "You Mongols raise livestock, eat meat, and wear pelts. My people till the fields and live on grain. We two are not one country and we have different languages."[7]: 31 

Manchu rule over China

An imperial portrait of Nurhaci

A century after the chaos started in the Jurchen lands,

traditional Mongolian alphabet as a reference.[74]
: 71, 88, 116, 137 

When the Jurchens were reorganized by Nurhaci into the Eight Banners, many Manchu clans were artificially created as a group of unrelated people founded a new Manchu clan (mukun) using a geographic origin name such as a toponym for their hala (clan name).[75] The irregularities over Jurchen and Manchu clan origin led to the Qing trying to document and systematize the creation of histories for Manchu clans, including manufacturing an entire legend around the origin of the Aisin-Gioro clan by taking mythology from the northeast.[76]

In 1603, Nurhaci gained recognition as the Sure Kundulen Khan (

Mukden after his conquest of Liaodong.[74]: 282  In 1635, his son and successor Hong Taiji changed the name of the Jurchen ethnic group (Manchu: ᠵᡠᡧᡝᠨ, Möllendorff: jušen, Abkai: juxen) to the Manchu.[78]: 330–331  A year later, Hong Taiji proclaimed himself the emperor of the Qing dynasty (Manchu: ᡩᠠᡳᠴᡳᠩ
ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ
, Möllendorff: daicing gurun, Abkai: daiqing gurunF).[79]: 15  Factors for the change of name of these people from Jurchen to Manchu include the fact that the term "Jurchen" had negative connotations since the Jurchens had been in a servile position to the Ming dynasty for several hundred years, and it also referred to people of the "dependent class".[77]: 70 [80] The change of the name from Jurchen to Manchu was made to hide the fact that the ancestors of the Manchus, the Jianzhou Jurchens, had been ruled by the Chinese.[81][82][83][19]: 280  The Qing dynasty carefully hid the two original editions of the books of "Qing Taizu Wu Huangdi Shilu" and the "Manzhou Shilu Tu" (Taizu Shilu Tu) in the Qing palace, forbidden from public view because they showed that the Manchu Aisin-Gioro family had been ruled by the Ming dynasty.[84][85] In the Ming period, the Koreans of Joseon referred to the Jurchen inhabited lands north of the Korean peninsula, above the rivers Yalu and Tumen to be part of Ming China, as the "superior country" (sangguk) which they called Ming China.[86] The Qing deliberately excluded references and information that showed the Jurchens (Manchus) as subservient to the Ming dynasty, from the History of Ming to hide their former subservient relationship to the Ming. The Ming Veritable Records were not used to source content on Jurchens during Ming rule in the History of Ming because of this.[87]

In 1644, the Ming capital, Beijing, was sacked by a peasant revolt led by Li Zicheng, a former minor Ming official who became the leader of the peasant revolt, who then proclaimed the establishment of the Shun dynasty. The last Ming ruler, the Chongzhen Emperor, died by suicide by hanging himself when the city fell. When Li Zicheng moved against the Ming general Wu Sangui, the latter made an alliance with the Manchus and opened the Shanhai Pass to the Manchu army. After the Manchus defeated Li Zicheng, they moved the capital of their new Qing Empire to Beijing (Manchu: ᠪᡝᡤᡳᠩ, Möllendorff: beging, Abkai: beging[88]) in the same year.[79]: 19–20 

The Qing government differentiated between Han Bannermen and ordinary Han civilians. Han Bannermen were Han Chinese who defected to the Qing Empire up to 1644 and joined the Eight Banners, giving them social and legal privileges in addition to being acculturated to Manchu culture. So many Han defected to the Qing Empire and swelled up the ranks of the Eight Banners that ethnic Manchus became a minority within the Banners, making up only 16% in 1648, with Han Bannermen dominating at 75% and Mongol Bannermen making up the rest.[89][90][91] It was this multi-ethnic, majority Han force in which Manchus were a minority, which conquered China for the Qing Empire.[92]

A mass marriage of Han Chinese officers and officials to Manchu women was organized to balance the massive number of Han women who entered the Manchu court as courtesans, concubines, and wives. These couples were arranged by Prince Yoto and Hong Taiji in 1632 to promote harmony between the two ethnic groups.[93]: 148  Also to promote ethnic harmony, a 1648 decree from the Shunzhi Emperor allowed Han Chinese civilian men to marry Manchu women from the Banners with the permission of the Board of Revenue if they were registered daughters of officials or commoners or the permission of their banner company captain if they were unregistered commoners. It was only later in the dynasty that these policies allowing intermarriage were done away with.[94][93]: 140 

The Qing Empire ca. 1820

As a result of their

border conflicts with the Russians, the Qing emperors started to realize the strategic importance of Manchuria and gradually sent Manchus back where they originally came from.[95]: 134  But throughout the Qing dynasty, Beijing was the focal point of the ruling Manchus in the political, economic and cultural spheres. The Yongzheng Emperor noted: "Garrisons are the places of stationed works, Beijing is their homeland."[97]
: 1326 

While the Manchu ruling elite at the Qing imperial court in Beijing and posts of authority throughout China increasingly adopted Han culture, the Qing imperial government viewed the Manchu communities (as well as those of various tribal people) in Manchuria as a place where traditional Manchu virtues could be preserved, and as a vital reservoir of military manpower fully dedicated to the regime.[98]: 182–184  The Qing emperors tried to protect the traditional way of life of the Manchus (as well as various other tribal peoples) in central and northern Manchuria by a variety of means. In particular, they restricted the migration of Han settlers to the region. This had to be balanced with practical needs, such as maintaining the defense of northern China against the Russians and the Mongols, supplying government farms with a skilled work force, and conducting trade in the region's products, which resulted in a continuous trickle of Han convicts, workers, and merchants to the northeast.[98]: 20–23, 78–90, 112–115 

Han Chinese transfrontiersmen and other non-Jurchen origin people who joined the Later Jin very early were put into the Manchu Banners and were known as "Baisin" in Manchu, and not put into the Han Banners to which later Han Chinese were placed in.

Kangxi emperor.[103]

Select groups of Han Chinese bannermen were mass transferred into Manchu Banners by the Qing, changing their ethnicity from Han Chinese to Manchu. Han Chinese bannermen of Tai Nikan (台尼堪, watchpost Chinese) and Fusi Nikan (撫順尼堪, Fushun Chinese)

Qianlong emperor.[100]: 128  It was between 1618 and 1629 when the Han Chinese from Liaodong who later became the Fushun Nikan and Tai Nikan defected to the Jurchens (Manchus).[100]: 103–105  These Han Chinese origin Manchu clans continue to use their original Han surnames and are marked as of Han origin on Qing lists of Manchu clans.[104][105][106][107] The Fushun Nikan became Manchufied and the originally Han banner families of Wang Shixuan, Cai Yurong, Zu Dashou, Li Yongfang, Shi Tingzhu and Shang Kexi intermarried extensively with Manchu families.[108]

A Manchu Bannerman in Guangzhou called Hequan illegally adopted a Han Chinese named Zhao Tinglu, the son of former Han bannerman Zhao Quan, and gave him a new name, Quanheng in order that he be able to benefit from his adopted son receiving a salary as a Banner soldier.[109]

Commoner Manchu bannermen who were not nobility were called irgen which meant common, in contrast to the Manchu nobility of the "Eight Great Houses" who held noble titles.[76][110]

Manchu bannermen of the capital garrison in Beijing were said to be the worst militarily, unable to draw bows, unable to ride horses and fight properly and losing their Manchu culture.[111]

Manchu bannermen from the Xi'an banner garrison were praised for maintaining Manchu culture by Kangxi in 1703.[112] Xi'an garrison Manchus were said to retain Manchu culture far better than all other Manchus at martial skills in the provincial garrisons and they were able to draw their bows properly and perform cavalry archery unlike Beijing Manchus. The Qianlong emperor received a memorial staying Xi'an Manchu bannermen still had martial skills although not up to those in the past in a 1737 memorial from Cimbu.[113] By the 1780s, the military skills of Xi'an Manchu bannermen dropped enormously and they had been regarded as the most militarily skilled provincial Manchu banner garrison.[114] Manchu women from the Xi'an garrison often left the walled Manchu garrison and went to hot springs outside the city and gained bad reputations for their sexual lives. A Manchu from Beijing, Sumurji, was shocked and disgusted by this after being appointed Lieutenant general of the Manchu garrison of Xi'an and informed the Yongzheng emperor what they were doing.[115][116] Han civilians and Manchu bannermen in Xi'an had bad relations, with the bannermen trying to steal at the markets. Manchu Lieutenant general Cimbru reported this to Yongzheng emperor in 1729 after he was assigned there. Governor Yue Rui of Shandong was then ordered by the Yongzheng to report any bannerman misbehaving and warned him not to cover it up in 1730 after Manchu bannermen were put in a quarter in Qingzhou.[117] Manchu bannermen from the garrisons in Xi'an and Jingzhou fought in Xinjiang in the 1770s and Manchus from Xi'an garrison fought in other campaigns against the Dzungars and Uyghurs throughout the 1690s and 18th century. In the 1720s Jingzhou, Hangzhou and Nanjing Manchu banner garrisons fought in Tibet.[118]

For the over 200 years they lived next to each other, Han civilians and Manchu bannermen in Xi'an did not intermarry with each other at all.[119] In a book published in 1911 American sociologist Edward Alsworth Ross wrote of his visit to Xi'an just before the Xinhai revolution:"In Sianfu the Tartar quarter is a dismal picture of crumbling walls, decay, indolence and squalor. On the big drill grounds you see the runways along which the horseman gallops and shoots arrows at a target while the Tartar military mandarins look on. These lazy bannermen were tried in the new army but proved flabby and good-for-nothing; they would break down on an ordinary twenty-mile march. Battening on their hereditary pensions they have given themselves up to sloth and vice, and their poor chest development, small weak muscles, and diminishing families foreshadow the early dying out of the stock. Where is there a better illustration of the truth that parasitism leads to degeneration!"[120] Ross spoke highly of the Han and Hui population of Xi'an, Shaanxi and Gansu in general, saying: "After a fortnight of mule litter we sight ancient yellow Sianfu, "the Western capital," with its third of a million souls. Within the fortified triple gate the facial mold abruptly changes and the refined intellectual type appears. Here and there faces of a Hellenic purity of feature are seen and beautiful children are not uncommon. These Chinese cities make one realize how the cream of the population gathers in the urban centers. Everywhere town opportunities have been a magnet for the élite of the open country."[121]

The Qing dynasty altered its law on intermarriage between Han civilians and Manchu bannermen several times in the dynasty. At the beginning of the Qing dynasty, the Qing allowed Han civilians to marry Manchu women. Then the Qing banned civilians from marrying women from the Eight banners later. In 1865, the Qing allowed Han civilian men to marry Manchu bannerwomen in all garrisons except the capital garrison of Beijing. There was no formal law on marriage between people in the different banners like the Manchu and Han banners but it was informally regulated by social status and custom. In northeastern China such as Heilongjiang and Liaoning it was more common for Manchu women to marry Han men since they were not subjected to the same laws and institutional oversight as Manchus and Han in Beijing and elsewhere.[122]

The policy of artificially isolating the Manchus of the northeast from the rest of China could not last forever. In the 1850s, large numbers of Manchu bannermen were sent to central China to fight the Taiping rebels. (For example, just the Heilongjiang province – which at the time included only the northern part of today's Heilongjiang – contributed 67,730 bannermen to the campaign, of whom only 10–20% survived).[98]: 117 Those few who returned were demoralized and often disposed to opium addiction.[98]: 124–125  In 1860, in the aftermath of the loss of Outer Manchuria, and with the imperial and provincial governments in deep financial trouble, parts of Manchuria became officially open to Chinese settlement;[98]: 103, sq  within a few decades, the Manchus became a minority in most of Manchuria's districts.

Modern times

Prince Zaitao dresses in modern reformed uniform of late Qing dynasty

The majority of the hundreds of thousands of people living in inner Beijing during the Qing were Manchus and Mongol bannermen from the Eight Banners after they were moved there in 1644, since Han Chinese were expelled and not allowed to re-enter the inner part of the city.[123][124][125] Only after the "Hundred Days Reform", during the reign of emperor Guangxu, were Han were allowed to re-enter inner Beijing.[125]

Many Manchu Bannermen in Beijing supported the

Boxers in the Boxer Rebellion and shared their anti-foreign sentiment.[76] The Manchu Bannermen were devastated by the fighting during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion, sustaining massive casualties during the wars and subsequently being driven into extreme suffering and hardship.[126]: 80  Much of the fighting in the Boxer Rebellion against the foreigners in defense of Beijing and Manchuria was done by Manchu Banner armies, which were destroyed while resisting the invasion. The German Minister Clemens von Ketteler was assassinated by a Manchu.[127]: 72  Thousands of Manchus fled south from Aigun during the fighting in the Boxer Rebellion in 1900, their cattle and horses then stolen by Russian Cossacks who razed their villages and homes.[128]: 4  The clan system of the Manchus in Aigun was obliterated by the despoliation of the area at the hands of the Russian invaders.[129]

By the 19th century, most Manchus in the city garrison spoke only Mandarin Chinese, not Manchu, which still distinguished them from their Han neighbors in southern China, who spoke non-Mandarin dialects. That they spoke Beijing dialect made recognizing Manchus folks relatively easy.[126]: 204 [127]: 204  It was northern Standard Chinese which the Manchu Bannermen spoke instead of the local dialect the Han people around the garrison spoke, so that Manchus in the garrisons at Jingzhou and Guangzhou both spoke Beijing Mandarin even though Cantonese was spoken at Guangzhou, and the Beijing dialect of Mandarin distinguished the Manchu bannermen at the Xi'an garrison from the local Han people who spoke the Xi'an dialect of Mandarin.[126]: 42 [127]: 42  Many Bannermen got jobs as teachers, writing textbooks for learning Mandarin and instructing people in Mandarin.[130]: 69  In Guangdong, the Manchu Mandarin teacher Sun Yizun advised that the Yinyun Chanwei and Kangxi Zidian, dictionaries issued by the Qing government, were the correct guides to Mandarin pronunciation, rather than the pronunciation of the Beijing and Nanjing dialects.[130]: 51 

In the late 19th century and early 1900s, intermarriage between Manchus and Han bannermen in the northeast increased as Manchu families were more willing to marry their daughters to sons from well off Han families to trade their ethnic status for higher financial status.[131] Most intermarriage consisted of Han Bannermen marrying Manchus in areas like Aihun.[126]: 263  Han Chinese Bannermen wedded Manchus and there was no law against this.[132]

As the end of the Qing dynasty approached, Manchus were portrayed as outside colonizers by Chinese nationalists such as Sun Yat-sen, even though the Republican revolution he brought about was supported by many reform-minded Manchu officials and military officers.[127]: 265  This portrayal dissipated somewhat after the 1911 revolution as the new Republic of China now sought to include Manchus within its national identity.[127]: 275  In order to blend in, some Manchus switched to speaking the local dialect instead of Standard Chinese.[126]: 270 [127]: 270 

First flag used by Republican China

By the early years of the

Republic of China, very few areas of China still had traditional Manchu populations. Among the few regions where such comparatively traditional communities could be found, and where the Manchu language was still widely spoken, were the Aigun (Manchu: ᠠᡳᡥᡡᠨ, Möllendorff: aihūn, Abkai: aihvn) District and the Qiqihar (Manchu: ᠴᡳᠴᡳᡤᠠᡵ, Möllendorff: cicigar, Abkai: qiqigar) District of Heilongjiang Province.[128]
: i, 3–4 

Fengtian Clique
soldiers in the 1920s

Until 1924, the Chinese government continued to pay stipends to Manchu bannermen, but many cut their links with their banners and took on Han-style names to avoid persecution.[127]: 270  The official total of Manchus fell by more than half during this period, as they refused to admit their ethnicity when asked by government officials or other outsiders.[127]: 270, 283  On the other hand, in warlord Zhang Zuolin's reign in Manchuria, much better treatment was reported.[133]: 157 [6]: 153  There was no particular persecution of Manchus.[133]: 157  Even the mausoleums of Qing emperors were still allowed to be managed by Manchu guardsmen, as in the past.[133]: 157  Many Manchus joined the Fengtian clique, such as Xi Qia, a member of the Qing dynasty's imperial clan.

Manchukuo Naval flag

As a follow-up to the

Mukden Incident, Manchukuo, a puppet state in Manchuria, was created by the Empire of Japan which was nominally ruled by the deposed Last Emperor, Puyi, in 1932. Although the nation's name implied a primarily Manchu affiliation, it was actually a completely new country for all the ethnicities in Manchuria,[134][133]: 160  which had a majority Han population and was opposed by many Manchus as well as people of other ethnicities who fought against Japan in the Second Sino-Japanese War.[6]: 185  The Japanese Ueda Kyōsuke labeled all 30 million people in Manchuria "Manchus", including Han Chinese, even though most of them were not ethnic Manchu, and the Japanese-written "Great Manchukuo" built upon Ueda's argument to claim that all 30 million "Manchus" in Manchukuo had the right to independence to justify splitting Manchukuo from China.[135]: 2000  In 1942, the Japanese-written "Ten Year History of the Construction of Manchukuo" attempted to emphasize the right of ethnic Japanese to the land of Manchukuo while attempting to delegitimize the Manchus' claim to Manchukuo as their native land, noting that most Manchus moved out during the Qing dynasty and only returned later.[135]
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In 1952, after the failure of both Manchukuo and the

Nationalist Government (KMT), the newborn People's Republic of China officially recognized the Manchu as one of the ethnic minorities as Mao Zedong had criticized the Han chauvinism that dominated the KMT.[127]: 277  In the 1953 census, 2.5 million people identified themselves as Manchu.[127]: 276  The Communist government also attempted to improve the treatment of Manchu people; some Manchu people who had hidden their ancestry during the period of KMT rule became willing to reveal their ancestry, such as the writer Lao She, who began to include Manchu characters in his fictional works in the 1950s.[127]: 280  Between 1982 and 1990, the official count of Manchu people more than doubled from 4,299,159 to 9,821,180, making them China's fastest-growing ethnic minority,[127]: 282  but this growth was only on paper, as this was due to people formerly registered as Han applying for official recognition as Manchu.[127]: 283  Since the 1980s, thirteen Manchu autonomous counties have been created in Liaoning, Jilin, Hebei, and Heilongjiang.[136]

The

Evenk, Nanai, Oroqen, and Sibe.[127]
: 295 

Since the 1980s, the

Hanfu movement who subscribe to conspiracy theories about Manchu people, such as the Chinese Communist Party being occupied by Manchu elites hence the better treatment Manchus receive under the People's Republic of China in contrast to their persecution under the KMT's Republic of China rule.[142]

Manchus were subjected to the same one child policy and rules as Han people. Manchus, Koreans, Russians, Hui and Mongols in Inner Mongolia were subjected to restrictions of two children.[143]

Population

Mainland China

Most Manchu people now live in

Anhui.[1]

Distribution

Rank Region Total
Population
Manchu Percentage
in Manchu
Population
Percentage
in the Population
of
Ethnic Minorities (%)
Regional Percentage
of
Population
Regional Rank
of
Ethnic Population
Total 1,335,110,869 10,410,585 100 9.28 0.77
Total
(in all 31 provincial regions)
1,332,810,869 10,387,958 99.83 9.28 0.78
G1 Northeast 109,513,129 6,951,280 66.77 68.13 6.35
G2 North 164,823,663 3,002,873 28.84 32.38 1.82
G3 East 392,862,229 122,861 1.18 3.11 0.03
G4 South Central 375,984,133 120,424 1.16 0.39 0.03
G5
Northwest
96,646,530 82,135 0.79 0.40 0.08
G6
Southwest
192,981,185 57,785 0.56 0.15 0.03
1
Liaoning
43,746,323 5,336,895 51.26 80.34 12.20 2nd
2
Hebei
71,854,210 2,118,711 20.35 70.80 2.95 2nd
3
Jilin
27,452,815 866,365 8.32 39.64 3.16 3rd
4
Heilongjiang
38,313,991 748,020 7.19 54.41 1.95 2nd
5 Inner Mongolia 24,706,291 452,765 4.35 8.96 2.14 3rd
6 Beijing 19,612,368 336,032 3.23 41.94 1.71 2nd
7 Tianjin 12,938,693 83,624 0.80 25.23 0.65 3rd
8
Henan
94,029,939 55,493 0.53 4.95 0.06 4th
9
Shandong
95,792,719 46,521 0.45 6.41 0.05 4th
10
Guangdong
104,320,459 29,557 0.28 1.43 0.03 9th
11 Shanghai 23,019,196 25,165 0.24 9.11 0.11 5th
12 Ningxia 6,301,350 24,902 0.24 1.12 0.40 3rd
13
Guizhou
34,748,556 23,086 0.22 0.19 0.07 18th
14 Xinjiang 21,815,815 18,707 0.18 0.14 0.09 10th
15
Jiangsu
78,660,941 18,074 0.17 4.70 0.02 7th
16
Shaanxi
37,327,379 16,291 0.16 8.59 0.04 3rd
17
Sichuan
80,417,528 15,920 0.15 0.32 0.02 10th
18
Gansu
25,575,263 14,206 0.14 0.59 0.06 7th
19
Yunnan
45,966,766 13,490 0.13 0.09 0.03 24th
20
Hubei
57,237,727 12,899 0.12 0.52 0.02 6th
21
Shanxi
25,712,101 11,741 0.11 12.54 0.05 3rd
22
Zhejiang
54,426,891 11,271 0.11 0.93 0.02 13th
23 Guangxi 46,023,761 11,159 0.11 0.07 0.02 12th
24
Anhui
59,500,468 8,516 0.08 2.15 0.01 4th
25
Fujian
36,894,217 8,372 0.08 1.05 0.02 10th
26
Qinghai
5,626,723 8,029 0.08 0.30 0.14 7th
27
Hunan
65,700,762 7,566 0.07 0.12 0.01 9th
28
Jiangxi
44,567,797 4,942 0.05 2.95 0.01 6th
29 Chongqing 28,846,170 4,571 0.04 0.24 0.02 7th
30
Hainan
8,671,485 3,750 0.04 0.26 0.04 8th
31 Tibet 3,002,165 718 <0.01 0.03 0.02 11th
Active Servicemen 2,300,000 22,627 0.24 23.46 1.05 2nd

Manchu autonomous regions

Manchu Ethnic
Town/Township
Province
Autonomous area
Municipality
City
Prefecture
County
Paifang Hui and Manchu Ethnic Township Anhui Hefei Feidong
Labagoumen Manchu Ethnic Township Beijing N/A
Huairou
Changshaoying Manchu Ethnic Township Beijing N/A
Huairou
Huangni Yi, Miao and Manchu Ethnic Township Guizhou Bijie Dafang
Jinpo Miao, Yi and Manchu Ethnic Township Guizhou Bijie
Qianxi
Anluo Miao, Yi and Manchu Ethnic Township Guizhou Bijie Jinsha
Xinhua Miao, Yi and Manchu Ethnic Township Guizhou Bijie Jinsha
Tangquan Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Tangshan Zunhua
Xixiaying Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Tangshan Zunhua
Dongling Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Tangshan Zunhua
Lingyunce Manchu and Hui Ethnic Township Hebei Baoding Yi
Loucun Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Baoding Laishui
Daweihe Hui and Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Langfang Wen'an
Pingfang Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Anchungou Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Wudaoyingzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Zhengchang Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Mayingzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Fujiadianzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Xidi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Xiaoying Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Datun Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Xigou Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde
Luanping
Gangzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Chengde
Liangjia Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Chengde
Bagualing Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Xinglong
Nantianmen Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Xinglong
Yinjiaying Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Miaozigou Mongol and Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Badaying Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Taipingzhuang Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Jiutun Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Xi'achao Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Baihugou Mongol and Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Longhua
Liuxi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Qijiadai Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Pingfang Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Maolangou Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Xuzhangzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Nanwushijia Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Guozhangzi Manchu Ethnic Township Hebei Chengde Pingquan
Hongqi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin
Nangang
Xingfu Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Lequn Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Tongxin Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Xiqin Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Gongzheng Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Lianxing Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Xinxing Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Qingling Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Nongfeng Manchu and Xibe Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Yuejin Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin Shuangcheng
Lalin Manchu Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Harbin
Wuchang
Hongqi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin
Wuchang
Niujia Manchu Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Harbin
Wuchang
Yingchengzi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin
Wuchang
Shuangqiaozi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin
Wuchang
Liaodian Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Harbin
Acheng
Shuishiying Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Qiqihar Ang'angxi
Youyi Daur, Kirgiz and Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Qiqihar Fuyu
Taha Manchu and Daur Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Qiqihar Fuyu
Jiangnan Korean and Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Mudanjiang Ning'an
Chengdong Korean and Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Mudanjiang Ning'an
Sijiazi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Heihe Aihui
Yanjiang Daur and Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Heihe Sunwu
Suisheng Manchu Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Suihua Beilin
Yong'an Manchu Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Suihua Beilin
Hongqi Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Suihua Beilin
Huiqi Manchu Ethnic Town Heilongjiang Suihua Wangkui
Xiangbai Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Suihua Wangkui
Lingshan Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Suihua Wangkui
Fuxing Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Hegang Suibin
Chengfu Korean and Manchu Ethnic Township Heilongjiang Shuangyashan Youyi
Longshan Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin Siping Gongzhuling
Ershijiazi Manchu Ethnic Town Jilin Siping Gongzhuling
Sanjiazi Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin
Yanbian
Hunchun
Yangpao Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin
Yanbian
Hunchun
Wulajie Manchu Ethnic Town Jilin Jilin City
Longtan
Dakouqin Manchu Ethnic Town Jilin Jilin City Yongji
Liangjiazi Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin Jilin City Yongji
Jinjia Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin Jilin City Yongji
Tuchengzi Manchu and Korean Ethnic Township Jilin Jilin City Yongji
Jindou Korean and Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin Tonghua Tonghua County
Daquanyuan Korean and Manchu Ethnic Township Jilin Tonghua Tonghua County
Xiaoyang Manchu and Korean Ethnic Township Jilin Tonghua Meihekou
Sanhe Manchu and Korean Ethnic Township Jilin Liaoyuan Dongfeng County
Mantang Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Shenyang
Dongling
Liushutun Mongol and Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Shenyang
Kangping
Shajintai Mongol and Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Shenyang
Kangping
Dongsheng Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Township Liaoning Shenyang
Kangping
Liangguantun Mongol and Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Shenyang
Kangping
Shihe Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Dalian
Jinzhou
Qidingshan Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian
Jinzhou
Taling Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Zhuanghe
Gaoling Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Zhuanghe
Guiyunhua Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Zhuanghe
Sanjiashan Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Zhuanghe
Yangjia Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Wafangdian
Santai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Wafangdian
Laohutun Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dalian Wafangdian
Dagushan Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Anshan Qianshan
Songsantaizi Korean and Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Anshan Qianshan
Lagu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Fushun Fushun County
Tangtu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Fushun Fushun County
Sishanling Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Benxi Nanfen
Xiamatang Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Benxi Nanfen
Huolianzhai Hui and Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Benxi Xihu
Helong Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Dandong Donggang
Longwangmiao Manchu and Xibe Ethnic Town Liaoning Dandong Donggang
Juliangtun Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Jiudaoling Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Dizangsi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Hongqiangzi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Liulonggou Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Shaohuyingzi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Dadingpu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Toutai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Toudaohe Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Chefang Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Wuliangdian Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Jinzhou Yi
Baichanmen Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Jinzhou Heishan
Zhen'an Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Heishan
Wendilou Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Jinzhou Linghai
Youwei Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Jinzhou Linghai
East Liujiazi Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Town Liaoning Fuxin
Zhangwu
West Liujiazi Manchu and Mongol Ethnic Town Liaoning Fuxin
Zhangwu
Jidongyu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Liaoyang Liaoyang County
Shuiquan Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Liaoyang Liaoyang County
Tianshui Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Liaoyang Liaoyang County
Quantou Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Tieling Changtu County
Babaotun Manchu, Xibe and Korean Ethnic Town Liaoning Tieling Kaiyuan
Huangqizhai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Kaiyuan
Shangfeidi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Kaiyuan
Xiafeidi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Kaiyuan
Linfeng Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Kaiyuan
Baiqizhai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Tieling County
Hengdaohezi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Tieling County
Chengping Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Dexing Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Helong Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Jinxing Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Mingde Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Songshu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Yingcheng Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Tieling Xifeng
Xipingpo Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Dawangmiao Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Fanjia Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Gaodianzi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Gejia Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Huangdi Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Huangjia Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Kuanbang Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Mingshui Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Shahe Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Wanghu Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Xiaozhuangzi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Yejia Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Gaotai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao
Suizhong
Baita Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Caozhuang Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Dazhai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Dongxinzhuang Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Gaojialing Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Guojia Manchu Ethnic Town Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Haibin Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Hongyazi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Jianjin Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Jianchang Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Jiumen Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Liutaizi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Nandashan Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Shahousuo Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Wanghai Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Weiping Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Wenjia Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Yang'an Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Yaowangmiao Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Yuantaizi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Xingcheng
Erdaowanzi Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Jianchang
Xintaimen Manchu Ethnic Township Liaoning Huludao Lianshan
Manzutun Manchu Ethnic Township Inner Mongolia Hinggan Horqin Right Front Banner
Guanjiayingzi Manchu Ethnic Township Inner Mongolia Chifeng Songshan
Shijia Manchu Ethnic Township Inner Mongolia Chifeng Harqin Banner
Caonian Manchu Ethnic Township Inner Mongolia Ulanqab Liangcheng
Sungezhuang Manchu Ethnic Township Tianjin N/A
Ji
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  • Manchu autonomous area in Jilin.
    Manchu autonomous area in Jilin.
  • Manchu autonomous area in Hebei.
    Manchu autonomous area in Hebei.

Other areas

Manchu people can be found living outside mainland China. There are approximately 12,000 Manchus now in Taiwan. Most of them moved to Taiwan with the ROC government in 1949. One notable example was Puru, a famous painter, calligrapher and also the founder of the Manchu Association of Republic of China.

Culture

Influence on other Tungusic peoples

The Manchus implemented measures to "Manchufy" the other Tungusic peoples living around the

Amur River basin.[65]: 38  The southern Tungusic Manchus influenced the northern Tungusic peoples linguistically, culturally, and religiously.[65]
: 242 

Language and alphabet

Language

"Banjin Inenggi" and Manchu linguistic activity by the government and students in Changchun, 2011

The Manchu language is a Tungusic language and has many dialects. Standard Manchu originates from the accent of Jianzhou Jurchens[144]: 246  and was officially standardized during the Qianlong Emperor's reign.[18]: 40  During the Qing dynasty, Manchus at the imperial court were required to speak Standard Manchu or face the emperor's reprimand.[144]: 247  This applied equally to the palace presbyter for shamanic rites when performing sacrifice.[144]: 247 

After the 19th century, most Manchus had perfected Standard Chinese and the number of Manchu speakers was dwindling.[18]: 33  Although the Qing emperors emphasized the importance of the Manchu language again and again, the tide could not be turned. After the Qing dynasty collapsed, the Manchu language lost its status as a national language and its official use in education ended. Manchus today generally speak Standard Chinese. The remaining skilled native Manchu speakers number less than 100,[145] most of whom are to be found in Sanjiazi (Manchu: ᡳᠯᠠᠨ
ᠪᠣᡠ
, Möllendorff: ilan boo, Abkai: ilan bou), Heilongjiang Province.[146] Since the 1980s, there has been a resurgence of the Manchu language among the government, scholars and social activists.[6]: 218  In recent years, with the help of the governments in Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang, many schools started to have Manchu classes.[147][148][149] There are also Manchu volunteers in many places of China who freely teach Manchu in the desire to rescue the language.[150][151][152][153] Thousands of non-Manchus have learned the language through these platforms.[154][155][156]

Today, in an effort to save Manchu culture from extinction, the older generation of Manchus are spending their time to teach young people; as an effort to encourage learners, these classes are often free. They teach through the Internet and even mail Manchu textbooks for free, all for the purpose of protecting the national cultural traditions.[157]

Alphabet

The Jurchens, ancestors of the Manchus, had created Jurchen script in the Jin dynasty. After the Jin dynasty collapsed, the Jurchen script was gradually lost. In the Ming dynasty, 60–70% of Jurchens used Mongolian script to write letters and 30–40% of Jurchens used Chinese characters.[55] This persisted until Nurhaci revolted against the Ming Empire. Nurhaci considered it a major impediment that his people lacked a script of their own, so he commanded his scholars, Gagai and Eldeni, to create Manchu characters by reference to Mongolian scripts.[158]: 4  They dutifully complied with the Khan's order and created Manchu script, which is called "script without dots and circles" (Manchu: ᡨᠣᠩᡴᡳ
ᡶᡠᡴᠠ
ᠠᡴᡡ
ᡥᡝᡵᡤᡝᠨ
, Möllendorff: tongki fuka akū hergen, Abkai: tongki fuka akv hergen; 无圈点满文) or "old Manchu script" (老满文).[96]: 3 (Preface)  Due to its hurried creation, the script has its defects. Some vowels and consonants were difficult to distinguish.[97]: 5324–5327 [18]: 11–17  Shortly afterwards, their successor Dahai used dots and circles to distinguish vowels, aspirated and non-aspirated consonants and thus completed the script. His achievement is called "script with dots and circles" or "new Manchu script".[159]

Traditional lifestyle

The Manchu are often mistakenly labelled a nomadic people,[57] but they were sedentary agricultural people who lived in fixed villages, farmed crops and practiced hunting and mounted archery.[59]: 24 note 1 

The southern Tungusic Manchu farming sedentary lifestyle was very different from the nomadic hunter gatherer forager lifestyle of their more northern Tungusic relatives like the Warka, which caused the Qing state to attempt to sedentarize them and adopt the farming lifestyle of the Manchus.[69][160]

Women

In their traditional culture before the Qing, Manchu women originally had sex autonomy being able to have premarital sex, being able to talk and mingle with men after being married without coming under suspicion of infidelity and to remarry after becoming widows. Compared to Han Chinese women, upper class Manchu women in the early Qing were at ease when talking to men.[161] Later during the Qing, Manchu men adopted Han Chinese Confucian values and started killing their wives and daughters for perceived infidelity due to talking to unrelated men while married or for premarital sex, and prizing virginity and widow chastity like Han Chinese.[162]

Names and naming practices

Family names

the cover of the Eight Manchu Banners' Surname-Clans' Book

The history of Manchu family names is quite long. Fundamentally, it succeeds the Jurchen family name of the Jin dynasty.[133]: 109  However, after the Mongols extinguished the Jin dynasty, the Manchus started to adopt Mongol culture, including their custom of using only their given name until the end of the Qing dynasty,[133]: 107  a practice confounding non-Manchus, leading them to conclude, erroneously, that they simply do not have family names.[144]: 969 

A Manchu family name usually has two portions: the first is "Mukūn" (ᠮᡠᡴᡡᠨ, Abkai: Mukvn) which literally means "branch name"; the second, "Hala" (ᡥᠠᠯᠠ), represents the name of a person's clan.

Nara are considered as "famous clans" (著姓) among Manchus.[163]

There were stories of Han migrating to the Jurchens and assimilating into Manchu Jurchen society and Nikan Wailan may have been an example of this.[164] The Manchu Cuigiya (崔佳氏) clan claimed that a Han Chinese founded their clan.[165] The Tohoro (托活络) clan (Duanfang's clan) claimed Han Chinese origin.[102][166][167][100]: 48 [168]

Given names

Manchus given names are distinctive. Generally, there are several forms, such as bearing suffixes "-ngga", "-ngge" or "-nggo", meaning "having the quality of";[144]: 979  bearing Mongol style suffixes "-tai" or "-tu", meaning "having";[77]: 243 [144]: 978  bearing the suffix, "-ju", "-boo";[77]: 243  numerals[77]: 243 [144]: 978 G or animal names.[144]: 979 [77]: 243 H

Some ethnic names can also be a given name of the Manchus. One of the common first name for the Manchus is Nikan, which is also a Manchu exonym for the Han Chinese.[77]: 242  For example, Nikan Wailan was a Jurchen leader who was an enemy of Nurhaci.[100]: 172 [59]: 49] [169] Nikan was also the name of one of the Aisin-Gioro princes and grandsons of Nurhaci who supported Prince Dorgon.[65]: 99 [59]: 902 [170] Nurhaci's first son was Cuyen, one of whose sons was Nikan.[171]

Current status

Nowadays, Manchus primarily use Chinese family and given names, but some still use a Manchu family name and Chinese given name,I a Chinese family name and Manchu given nameJ or both Manchu family and given names.K

Burial customs

The Jurchens and their Manchu descendants originally practiced cremation as part of their culture. They adopted the practice of burial from the Han Chinese, but many Manchus continued to cremate their dead.[77]: 264  Princes were cremated on pyres.[172]

Traditional hairstyle

Image of a man with the queue hairstyle.

The traditional hairstyle for Manchu men is shaving the front of their heads while growing the hair on the back of their heads into a single braid called a queue (辮子; biànzi), which was known as soncoho in Manchu. During the Qing dynasty, the queue was legally mandated for male Ming Chinese subjects in the Qing Empire. The Ming were to shave their foreheads and begin growing the queue within ten days of the order, if they refused to comply they were executed for treason. Throughout the rest of the Qing dynasty, the queue was seen as a submission of loyalty, as it showed who had submitted to the dynasty and who had not. As the Qing dynasty came to an end, the hairstyle shifted from a symbol of loyalty to a symbol of feudalism and this led many men to cut off their cues as a statement of rebellion. These acts gave China a step toward modernization and moved it away from imperial rule as China began to adopt more of Western culture, including fashion and appearance.

Manchu women wore their hair in a distinctive hairstyle called liangbatou (兩把頭).

Traditional garments

Han and Manchu clothing coexisted during Qing dynasty
Han Chinese clothing in early Qing

A common misconception among Han Chinese was that Manchu clothing was entirely separate from Hanfu.

Nanai adopted Chinese influences in their religion and clothing with Chinese dragons on ceremonial robes, scroll and spiral bird and monster mask designs, Chinese New Year, using silk and cotton, iron cooking pots, and heated house from China during the Ming dynasty.[177]

The Spencer Museum of Art has six long pao robes that belonged to Han Chinese nobility of the Qing dynasty (Chinese nobility).[176]: 115  Ranked officials and Han Chinese nobles had two slits in the skirts while Manchu nobles and the Imperial family had four slits in skirts. All first, second and third rank officials as well as Han Chinese and Manchu nobles were entitled to wear nine dragons by the Qing Illustrated Precedents. Qing sumptuary laws only allowed four clawed dragons for officials, Han Chinese nobles and Manchu nobles while the Qing Imperial family, emperor and princes up to the second degree and their female family members were entitled to wear five clawed dragons. However officials violated these laws all the time and wore five clawed dragons and the Spencer Museum's six long pao worn by Han Chinese nobles have five clawed dragons on them.[176]: 117 

Han Chinese general Zhang Zhiyuan wearing Qing military outfit.[173]: 149 

The early phase of Manchu clothing succeeded from Jurchen tradition. White was the dominating color.[178]To facilitate convenience during archery, the robe is the most common article of clothing for the Manchu people.[179]: 17  Over the robe, a surcoat is usually worn, derived from the military uniform of Eight Banners army.[179]: 30  During the Kangxi period, the surcoat gained popularity among commoners.[179]: 31  The modern Chinese suits, the Cheongsam and Tangzhuang, are derived from the Manchu robe and surcoat[179]: 17  which are commonly considered as "Chinese elements".[180]

Wearing hats is also a part of traditional Manchu culture.[179]: 27  Hats are worn by all ages throughout all seasons, which contrasts the Han Chinese culture of "Starting to wear hats at 20-year-old" (二十始冠).[179]: 27  Manchu hats are either formal or casual, formal hats being made in two different styles, straw for spring and summer, and fur for fall and winter.[179]: 28  Casual hats are more commonly known as "Mandarin hats" in English.[179]

Manchus have many distinctive traditional accessories. Women traditionally wear three earrings on each ear,[181] a tradition that is maintained by many older Manchu women.[182] Males also traditionally wear piercings, but they tend to only have one earring in their youth and do not continue to wear it as adults.[133]: 20  The Manchu people also have traditional jewelry which evokes their past as hunters. The fergetun (ᡶᡝᡵᡤᡝᡨᡠᠨ), a thumb ring traditionally made out of reindeer bone, was worn to protect the thumbs of archers. After the establishment of the Qing dynasty in 1644, the fergetun gradually became a form of jewelry, with the most valuable ones made in jade and ivory.[183] High-heeled shoes were worn by Manchu women.[181]

Traditional activities

Riding and archery

Painting of the Qianlong Emperor hunting

Riding and archery (Manchu: ᠨᡳᠶᠠᠮᠨᡳᠶᠠᠨ, Möllendorff: niyamniyan, Abkai: niyamniyan) are significant to the Manchus. They were well-trained horsemen from their teenage[184] years. Huangtaiji said, "Riding and archery are the most important martial arts of our country".[158]: 46 [78]: 446  Every generation of the Qing dynasty treasured riding and archery the most.[185]: 108  Every spring and fall, from ordinary Manchus to aristocrats, all had to take riding and archery tests. Their test results could even affect their rank in the nobility.[185]: 93  The Manchus of the early Qing dynasty had excellent shooting skills and their arrows were reputed to be capable of penetrating two persons.[185]: 94 

From the middle period of the Qing dynasty, archery became more a form of entertainment in the form of games such as hunting swans, shooting fabric or silk target. The most difficult is shooting a candle hanging in the air at night.[185]: 95  Gambling was banned in the Qing dynasty but there was no limitation on Manchus engaging in archery contests. It was common to see Manchus putting signs in front of their houses to invite challenges.[185]: 95  After the Qianlong period, Manchus gradually neglected the practices of riding and archery, even though their rulers tried their best to encourage Manchus to continue their riding and archery traditions,[185]: 94  but the traditions are still kept among some Manchus even nowadays.[186]

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Manchu wrestling

Manchu wrestlers competed in front of the Qianlong Emperor

Manchu wrestling (Manchu: ᠪᡠᡴᡠ, Möllendorff: buku, Abkai: buku)[54]: 118  is also an important martial art of the Manchu people.[54]: 142  Buku, meaning "wrestling" or "man of unusual strength" in Manchu, was originally from a Mongolian word, "bökh".[54]: 118  The history of Manchu wrestling can be traced back to Jurchen wrestling in the Jin dynasty which was originally from Khitan wrestling; it was very similar to Mongolian wrestling.[54]: 120  In the Yuan dynasty, the Jurchens who lived in northeast China adopted Mongol culture including wrestling, bökh.[54]: 119  In the latter Jin and early Qing period, rulers encouraged the populace, including aristocrats, to practise buku as a feature of military training.[54]: 121  At the time, Mongol wrestlers were the most famous and powerful. By the Chongde period, Manchus had developed their own well-trained wrestlers[54]: 123  and, a century later, in the Qianlong period, they surpassed Mongol wrestlers.[54]: 137  The Qing court established the "Shan Pu Battalion" and chose 200 fine wrestlers divided into three levels. Manchu wrestling moves can be found in today's Chinese wrestling, shuai jiao, which is its most important part.[54]: 153  Among many branches, Beijing wrestling adopted most Manchu wrestling moves.[187]

Falconry

As a result of their hunting ancestry, Manchus are traditionally interested in falconry.[185]: 106  Gyrfalcon (Manchu: ᡧᠣᠩᡴᠣᡵᠣ, Möllendorff: šongkoro, Abkai: xongkoro) is the most highly valued discipline in the Manchu falconry social circle.[185]: 107  In the Qing period, giving a gyrfalcon to the royal court in tribute could be met with a considerable reward.[185]: 107  There were professional falconers in Ningguta area (today's Heilongjiang province and the northern part of Jilin province). It was a big base of falconry.[185]: 106  Beijing's Manchus also like falconry. Compared to the falconry of Manchuria, it is more like an entertainment.[185]: 108  Imperial Household Department of Beijing had professional falconers, too. They provided outstanding falcons to the emperor when he went to hunt every fall.[185]: 108  Even today, Manchu traditional falconry is well practised in some regions.[188]

Ice skating

The performance of Manchu palace skaters on holiday

Ice skating (Manchu: ᠨᡳᠰᡠᠮᡝ
ᡝᡶᡳᡵᡝ
ᡝᡶᡳᠨ
[citation needed]
, Möllendorff: nisume efire efin, Abkai: nisume efire efin) is another Manchu pastime. The Qianlong Emperor called it a "national custom".[189] It was one of the most important winter events of the Qing royal household,[190] performed by the "Eight Banner Ice Skating Battalion" (八旗冰鞋营)[190] which was a special force trained to do battle on icy terrain.[190] The battalion consisted of 1600 soldiers. In the Jiaqing period, it was reduced to 500 soldiers and transferred to the Jing Jie Battalion (精捷营) originally, literally meaning "chosen agile battalion".[190]

In the 1930s–1940s, there was a famous Manchu skater in Beijing whose name was Wu Tongxuan, from the Uya clan and one of the royal household skaters in Empress Dowager Cixi's regency.[191] He frequently appeared in many of Beijing's skating rinks.[191] Nowadays, there are still Manchu figure skaters; world champions Zhao Hongbo and Tong Jian are the pre-eminent examples.

Literature

The Tale of the Nisan Shaman (Manchu: ᠨᡳᡧᠠᠨ
ᠰᠠᠮᠠᠨ ‍ᡳ
ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ
, Möllendorff: nišan saman i bithe, Abkai: nixan saman-i bithe; 尼山萨满传) is the most important piece of Manchu literature.[192]: 3  It primarily recounts how Nisan Shaman helps revive a young hunter.[192]: Preface  The story also spread to Xibe, Nanai, Daur, Oroqen, Evenk and other Tungusic peoples.[192]: 3  It has four versions: the handwriting version from Qiqihar; two different handwriting versions from Aigun; and the one by the Manchu writer Dekdengge in Vladivostok (Manchu: ᡥᠠᡳᡧᡝᠨᠸᡝᡳ, Möllendorff: haišenwei, Abkai: haixenwei[192]: 1 ). The four versions are similar, but Haišenwei's is the most complete.[192]: 7  It has been translated into Russian, Chinese, English and other languages.[192]: 3 

There is also literature written in Chinese by Manchu writers, such as

The Tale of Heroic Sons and Daughters (儿女英雄传), Song of Drinking Water [zh] (饮水词) and The Collection of Tianyouge [zh
] (天游阁集).

Folk art

Octagonal drum

Octagonal drum performance on stage

Octagonal drum is a type of Manchu folk art that was very popular among bannermen, especially in Beijing.[133]: 147  It is said that octagonal drum originated with the snare drum of the Eight-banner military and the melody was made by the banner soldiers who were on the way back home from victory in the battle of Jinchuan.[133]: 147  The drum is composed of wood surrounded by bells. The drumhead is made by wyrmhide with tassels at the bottom.[133]: 147  The colors of the tassels are yellow, white, red, and blue, which represent the four colors of the Eight Banners.[185]: 124  When artists perform, they use their fingers to hit the drumhead and shake the drum to ring the bells.[133]: 147  Traditionally, octagonal drum is performed by three people. One is the harpist; one is the clown who is responsible for harlequinade; and the third is the singer.[133]: 147 

Akšan [zh], Manchu singer and ulabun artist

"

Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio.[133]: 148  Additionally, there are many works that depict the lives of Bannermen. Aisin-Gioro Yigeng, who was pen named "Helü" and wrote the sigh of old imperial bodyguard, as the representative author.[185]: 116  Zidishu involves two acts of singing, which are called dongcheng and xicheng.[133]
: 149 

After the fall of the Qing dynasty, the influence of the octagonal drum gradually reduced. However, the Chinese monochord [zh][133]: 149  and crosstalk[193] which incorporates octagonal drum are still popular in Chinese society and the new generations. Many famous Chinese monochord performers and crosstalkers were the artists of octagonal drum, such as De Shoushan and Zhang Sanlu.[185]: 113 

Ulabun

Ulabun (ᡠᠯᠠᠪᡠᠨ) is a form of Manchu storytelling entertainment which is performed in the Manchu language.[194] Different from octagonal drum, ulabun is popular among the Manchu people living in Manchuria. It has two main categories; one is popular folk literature such as the Tale of the Nisan Shaman, the other is from folk music with an informative and independent plot, and complete structure.[194] Song Xidong aka. Akšan/Akxan (ᠠᡴᡧᠠᠨ) is a famous artist in performing ulabun.[195]

Religion

Originally, Manchus, and their predecessors, were principally Buddhists with Shamanist influences. Every Manchu King started his royal title with Buddha. After the conquest of China in the 17th century, Manchus came into contact with Chinese culture. They adopted Confucianism along with Buddhism and discouraged shamanism.

Manchu shamanism

conquest of China in the 17th century, although Manchus officially adopted Buddhism and widely adopted Chinese folk religion, Shamanic traditions can still be found in the aspects of soul worship, totem worship, belief in nightmares and apotheosis of philanthropists.[133]: 98–106  Apart from the Shamanic shrines in the Qing palace, no temples erected for worship of Manchu gods could be found in Beijing.[133]: 95  Thus, the story of competition between Shamanists and Lamaists was often heard in Manchuria but the Manchu emperors helped Lamaists or Tibetan Buddhists officially.[133]
: 95 

Buddhism

Jurchens, the predecessors of the Manchus adopted the

Mañjuśrī in Tibetan Buddhism[11]: 5  and had high attainments.[196][133]
: 95 

Hong Taiji who was of Mongolian descent started leaning towards Chan Buddhism, the original Chinese form known in Japan as Zen Buddhism. Still, Huangtaiji patronized Tibetan Buddhism extensively and publicly.[197][198] Huangtaiji patronized Buddhism but sometimes felt Tibetan Buddhism to be inferior to Chan Buddhism.[198]

The

Gelukpa sect)[199]
: 123–4 

This explanation of only supporting the "Yellow Hats" Tibetan Buddhists for practical reasons was used to deflect Han criticism of this policy by the Qianlong Emperor, who had the "Lama Shuo" stele engraved in Tibetan, Mongol, Manchu and Chinese, which said: "By patronizing the Yellow Church we maintain peace among the Mongols."[200][201] It seems he was wary of the rising power of the Tibetan Kingdom and its influence over the Mongolians and Manchu public, princes and generals.

Chinese folk religion

Manchus were affected by

Cai Shen and the Kitchen God just as the Han Chinese did. The worship of Mongolian and Tibetan gods has also been reported.[133]
: 95 

Roman Catholic

Influenced by the

Doro Beile Sunu were devout Catholics, too.[185]: 184 [202] In the Jiaqing period, Tong Hengšan and Tong Lan were Catholic Manchu Bannermen.[185]: 184  These Manchu Catholics were proselytized and persecuted by Qing emperors but they steadfastly refused to renounce their faith.[185]: 184  There were Manchu Catholics in modern times, too, such as Ying Lianzhi, the founder of Fu Jen Catholic University
.

Traditional holidays

Manchus have many traditional holidays. Some are derived from Chinese culture, such as the "

Duanwu Festival.[204] Some are of Manchu origin. Food Exhaustion Day (绝粮日), on every 26th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar, is another example which was inspired by a story that once Nurhaci and his troops were in a battle with enemies and almost running out of food. The villagers who lived near the battlefield heard the emergency and came to help. There was no tableware on the battlefield. They had to use perilla leaves to wrap the rice. Afterwards, they won the battle. So later generations could remember this hardship, Nurhaci made this day the "Food Exhaustion Day". Traditionally on this day, Manchu people eat perilla or cabbage wraps with rice, scrambled eggs, beef or pork.[205] Banjin Inenggi (ᠪᠠᠨᠵᡳᠨ
ᡳᠨᡝᠩᡤᡳ
), on the 13th day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, which started to be celebrated in late 20th century, is the anniversary of the name creation of Manchu.[9]: 49  This day in 1635, Hong Taiji changed the ethnic name from Jurchen to Manchu.[78]: 330–331 [206]

See also

Notes

1.A Also known as Man,[207] Bannermen,[77]: 13–15 [208] or Banner people.[77]: 15  They are sometimes called 'red-tasseled Manchus" (Chinese: 红缨满族; pinyin: Hóngyīng Mǎnzú), a reference to the ornamentation on traditional Manchu hats.[43]: 79 [209]
2.BFengcheng and Beizhen are cities but treated as Manchu autonomous counties.[6]: 207 
3.
Möngke Temür, Qing dynasty
emperors' ancestor
4.D Cungšan was considered as Nurhaci's direct ancestor by some viewpoints,[11]: 130  but disagreements also exist.[7]: 28 
5.E Aka. Manchu State (Manchu: ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ
ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ
, Möllendorff: manju gurun, Abkai: manju gurun)[78]: 283 
6.F The meaning of "daicing" (daiqing) is debatable. It has been reported that the word was imported from Mongolian means "fighting country"[210]
7.G e.g. Nadanju (70 in Manchu), Susai (5 in Manchu), Liošici(67, a Mandarin homophone) and Bašinu(85, a Mandarin homophone)[77]: 243 
8.H e.g. Dorgon (badger) and Arsalan (lion)[144]: 979 
9.I e.g. Aisin Gioro Qixiang [zh], a famous Chinese calligrapher.
10.J e.g. Ying Batu, Ying Bayan, the sons of a famous Manchu director, Ying Da.
11.K e.g. Aisin-Gioro Ulhicun, a famous scholar of Khitan and Manchu linguistic studies.
12.L less than 100 native speakers.[211] Several thousands can speak Manchu as second language through primary education or free classes for adults in China.[154][212][213]
13.M Autonomous counties are shown in bright green. Counties with autonomous townships are in dark green, with the number of Manchu township in each county shown in red (or yellow). So are another 2 pictures.

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