Bordered Yellow Banner

Part of the Manchu Eight Banners

This article is about the Manchurian military unit. For the place bearing the same Chinese name, see Bordered Yellow Banner, Inner Mongolia.

Bordered Yellow Banner

Flag of the Bordered Yellow Banner

Active| 1615 – 1912
Country| Later Jin
Qing dynasty
Type| Cavalry
Musketeers
Part of| Eight Banners
Commander| the Emperor

Military unit

Bordered Yellow Banner

Chinese name
Traditional Chinese| 鑲黃旗
Simplified Chinese| 镶黄旗
| Transcriptions

Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin| xiānghuángqí
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic| Хөвөөт Шар Хошуу
Manchu name
Manchu script| ᡴᡠᠪᡠᡥᡝ ᠰᡠᠸᠠᠶᠠᠨ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ
Romanization| kubuhe suwayan gūsa

The Bordered Yellow Banner (Chinese: 鑲黃旗) was one of the Eight Banners of Manchu military and society during the Later Jin and Qing dynasty of China. The Bordered Yellow Banner was one of three "upper" banner armies under the direct command of the emperor himself, and one of the four "left wing" banners.[1] The Plain Yellow Banner and the Bordered Yellow Banner were split from each other in 1615, when the troops of the original four banner armies (Yellow, Blue, Red, and White) were divided into eight by adding a bordered variant to each banner's design.[2] The yellow banners were originally commanded personally by Nurhaci. After Nurhaci's death, his son Hong Taiji became khan, and took control of both yellow banners. Later, the Shunzhi Emperor took over the Plain White Banner after the death of his regent, Dorgon, to whom it previously belonged. From that point forward, the emperor directly controlled three "upper" banners (Plain Yellow, Bordered Yellow, and Plain White), as opposed to the other five "lower" banners.[3][4] Because of the direct control of the three upper banners, there was no appointed banner commanders as opposed to the other five. The emperor's personal guards and guards of Forbidden City were also only selected from the upper three banners.[5]

## Notable people

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* Yuxian (Qing dynasty)
* Empress Xiaoxianchun
* Fuheng
* Fuk'anggan
* Wenxiu, concubine of the Xuantong Emperor
* Noble Consort Wenxi
* Longkodo
* Empress Xiaodexian
* Empress Xiaoshencheng
* Empress Xiaomucheng
* Empress Xiaozheyi
* Yilibu
* Oboi
* King Pu-tsung
* Nian Gengyao (Han)
* Gao E (Han)
* Empress Xiaoyichun
* Taqibu
* Consort Fang
* Concubine Tian
* Consort Yuan
* Imperial Noble Consort Dunsu
* Imperial Noble Consort Gongshun
* Imperial Noble Consort Qinggong
* Consort Xun( Concubine of Tongzhi Emperor
* Noble Consort Xin

## Notable clans

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* Fuca clan
* Niohuru
* Tunggiya
* Sakda
* Nian
* Gao
* Erdet
* Gūwalgiya
* Zhangjia
* Duola'er
* Zhalali
* Fan
* Wei
* Ma
* Zhao
* Shi
* Gorolo
* Yanzha

## References

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1. ^ Elliott 2001, p. 79.
2. ^ Elliott 2001, p. 59.
3. ^ Wakeman 1985, p. 158.
4. ^ Elliott 2001, pp. 404–405.
5. ^ 清史稿

## Bibliography

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* Elliott, Mark C. (2001), The Manchu Way: The Eight Banners and Ethnic Identity in Late Imperial China, Stanford University Press, ISBN 9780804746847

* Wakeman, Frederic Jr. (1985), The Great Enterprise: The Manchu Reconstruction of Imperial Order in Seventeenth-century China, Berkeley: University of California Press, ISBN 0520048040

## Further reading

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* Dennerline, Jerry (2002), "The Shun-Chih Reign", in Peterson, Willard J.; Twitchett, Denis Crispin; Fairbank, John King (eds.), The Cambridge History of China: Volume 9, Part 1, The Ch'ing Empire to 1800, The Cambridge History of China, vol. 9, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 9780521243346

* Rawski, Evelyn S. (1998), The Last Emperors: A Social History of Qing Imperial Institutions, University of California Press, ISBN 9780520926790

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Eight Banners

Banners|

| Upper Three Banners|

* Bordered Yellow Banner
* Plain Yellow Banner
* Plain White Banner

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Lower Five Banners|

* Plain Red Banner
* Bordered White Banner
* Bordered Red Banner
* Plain Blue Banner
* Bordered Blue Banner

Supreme commanders|

* the Emperor (Upper Three Banners)
* Prince Li (Plain Red Banner)
* Prince Su (Bordered White Banner)
* Prince Keqin (Bordered Red Banner)
* Prince Yu (Plain Blue Banner)
* Prince Zheng (Bordered Blue Banner)

Classes|

* Emperor (Khan)
* Banner lords
* Feudal lords
* Regular households
* Booi Aha
* Banner slaves

Ethnic|

| Outer Companies|

* Manchu Eight Banners
* Mongolian Eight Banners
* Han Chinese Eight Banners

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Inner Companies|

* Booi Manju Niru
* Cigu Niru
* Fandzi Niru
* Hoise Niru
* Oros Niru
* Solho Niru

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