In 1616, Nurhaci, the Jurchen chief of Jianzhou, established Houjin.
Since then, the Manchus have stepped onto the stage of history and become the second and last ethnic minority in Chinese history to unify the Central Plains Dynasty.
The ruler of the Qing Dynasty was the Aixin Jueluo family, in addition to the Aixin Jueluo family, the Qing Dynasty also had many ancient surnames and families, although not aristocratic, but still played an important role in the history of the Qing Dynasty.
For example, the Herschel family.
It is also an ancient surname with a history of more than a thousand years. It has been active in the northeast region since the Jin Dynasty, and has lived in the area from the Liao River to the Mudanjiang River for generations. At the same time, the Hesheri family, in addition to the Manchus, also had Mongolians and Xibe tribes, and, although the ethnic groups were different, they were of the same origin as the Manchu Hesheri family.
This is a family with many celebrities, and the Jin Dynasty has produced two prime ministers. The famous minister Sony in the early years of the Qing Dynasty also came from the Hersheri family.
Sony was one of the founding heroes of the Qing Dynasty, able to write and fight, not only Manchu, but also Mongolian and Chinese. At the same time, he is also very talented in the military.
He served as an assistant minister, as well as as the head of the ministry of internal affairs, and also assisted the Shunzhi Emperor and the Kangxi Emperor.
In the sixth year of the Kangxi Dynasty, Sonny died at the age of sixty-seven.
In addition to Sony, the most famous Hersheli clan in the Qing Dynasty was Empress Hesheri, Empress Xiaochengren. Empress Xiaochengren was the granddaughter of Sony and the wife of the Kangxi Emperor, and played a very important role in the life of the Kangxi Emperor.
The two married as teenagers and were very affectionate. Unfortunately, Empress Xiaochengren died after giving birth to her second son, Yin Rong, at the age of 21. Because of Empress Xiaochengren, the Kangxi Emperor made his second son Yin Rong the crown prince and personally raised him.
Later, after the fall of the Qing Dynasty, these nobles living in the capital were no longer aristocrats, but became ordinary people, and their surnames were changed to Han surnames. For example, He, Gao, Kang, He, Zhang, Lu, He, Suo, Ying, Hao, Hei, Pu, Li heman, and so on.
The well-known Song Dandan's ex-husband Yingda is also a descendant of the Herschel family, and his real surname is Herschel.
Finally, do you know who are Manchus? Do you know their former last name?