The Qing Dynasty has been overthrown for many years, but there are still many people in the entertainment industry who high-profile claim to be the children of the Eight Flags, as if this layer of identity gives them an innate sense of superiority. Na Ying has repeatedly called himself a descendant of the Yehenara clan in the show, a disciple of the Zhenghuang banner, Wu Jing also said in a show that his family ancestors were formerly white flag, and Guan Xiaotong said that he was a Guarjia clan. Lang Lang, Wang Likun, Kan Qingzi, Bai Jingting... Almost half of the stars in the entertainment industry are Manchus.
That Ying Manchu costume
Premier Zhou Enlai and his wife Deng Yingchao once asked the students during their visits to the students whether they had ever heard of the Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty and whether they would write the word "胄." Premier Zhou said to his classmates: "The Eight Banners are the sons of the nobles during the Qing Dynasty. And this gizzard has two meanings, one means armor, that is, the helmet worn by soldiers during war, which protects the head; the other means future generations. "Before the Qing soldiers entered the customs, the Eight Flags were still warriors who could fight good battles, but in the late Qing Dynasty, the Eight Flags children had long since become spoiled and habitual, teasing birds and walking dogs.
Premier Zhou exchanged with students
The Eight Banners originated from the hunting organization of the Jurchen people, which was not only the organizational form of social life, but also the military structure of the later Qing army. At the beginning, there were actually only four flags: the positive yellow flag, the positive white flag, the positive red flag, and the positive blue flag, and in the forty-third year of the Wanli calendar, Nurhaci added the yellow, white, red, and blue flags to form the eight flags that we later became familiar with. Today we will talk about which eight flags are the eight flags, and what position they occupy in this system:
Eight Flags
The eight flags are divided into three flags and five flags below. The lord of each flag of the upper three banners is concurrently held by the emperor and there is no lord; the lower five banners have their own flag lords and subordinate lords
Lords and Lords of the Eight Banners
01. Yellow flag
Yellow flag, one of the three flags, the flag color is yellow with red edges, and it is also the first of the three flags. Before the Qing army entered the pass, the two banners of Zhenghuang and Huanghuang were directly commanded by the emperor, and the other 6 banners were respectively under the command of the emperor's sons and nephews. At that time, the yellow flag belonged to only the emperor, and there was no other clan room in the flag except for the emperor, which was also the reason why the yellow flag later became the head of the three banners. After the Manchus entered guannei, the inner city of Beijing was divided into 8 areas, which were garrisoned by eight banners, with yellow flags responsible for guarding the northeast corner of the imperial city, and garrisoning the two gates of Andingmen and Dongzhimen. It has jurisdiction over 84 whole and 2 semi-subordinate collars, with a population of 130,000 and 26,000 soldiers. Among the historical figures we are more familiar with in the yellow flag are: Ao Bai, Empress Xiaoxianchun, and Empress Dowager Ci'an.
02. Positive yellow flag
Zhenghuang Banner, one of the three banners on the top, the flag color is pure yellow, and it is personally unified by the emperor. After Nurhaci's death, emperor Taiji, in order to consolidate his power, changed Duoduo's positive yellow flag to zhengbai flag, and changed his own positive white flag to zhenghuangqi. After entering the pass, Zheng Huangqi was responsible for garrisoning the northwest corner of the Imperial City, stationing on both sides of the Desheng Gate. Under the jurisdiction of Zhenghuang, there are 92 whole collars and 2 and a half sub-collars, with a population of 150,000 and 30,000 soldiers, which is the most populous banner among the eight banners, and the Yehenara clan of Naying belongs to the Zhenghuang Banner. The historical figures we are more familiar with in the yellow flag are: Sony and Naranjande.
03. Positive white flag
The white flag, one of the three flags on the top, is pure white in color and is personally ruled by the emperor. In fact, before Shunzhi, the upper three banners were yellow, yellow and blue, but in the early days of Shunzhi, Dolgun became more and more powerful, so he raised the white flag he commanded into the upper three banners, and lowered the original positive blue flag to the lower five banners. After entering the customs, Zhengbaiqi was responsible for the security of the east side of the Imperial City, stationed on the south side of the Dongzhimen Gate. Zhengbai has jurisdiction over 86 whole collars, with a population of 130,000 and 26,000 soldiers. Actor Wu Jing once said that he was a descendant of Dolgun, that is, a member of the Zhengbaiqi people. The historical figures we are more familiar with here are: Dolgun, Ronglu, and Cao Xueqin.
04. Positive red flag
The red flag, the head of the lower five flags, is pure red in color, and is commanded by the kings and Baylor. Zhenghongqi is the least populous of the Eight Banners, with a scale of 74 whole collars under its jurisdiction, with a total population of only 115,000 and 23,000 soldiers. After entering the customs, Zheng Hongqi was responsible for the west side of the Imperial City and stationed on the south side of Xizhimenli. The historical figures we are more familiar with in the Zhenghong Banner are: Mr. Lao She, a famous literary scholar, and the first corrupt official during the Qianlong period, He Yan.
05. White flag
White flag, one of the lower five flags, the flag color is pure white with red edges, led by the kings and Baylor.
There are 84 whole collars under the jurisdiction of the white, with a total population of about 130,000 men, women, and children, and 26,000 soldiers. After entering the customs, he was responsible for the defense of the eastern side of the Imperial City, and was stationed on the south side of the Chaoyang Gate. The more famous historical figures in the white flag are: Shanqi (qi), who is one of the builders of China's modern police system, and also a supporter of the constitutional monarchy in the late Qing Dynasty, and Zaize, who is also an important participant in the constitutional movement in the late Qing Dynasty.
06. Red flag
The red flag, one of the five flags under the flag, the color of the flag is pure red and white edges, led by the kings and Baylor.
There are 86 whole collars under the jurisdiction of the red flag, with 26,000 soldiers and a total population of about 130,000. The red flag was responsible for the guarding of the west side of the imperial city, stationed on the south side of the Fucheng Gate. There are relatively few famous historical figures in the red flag, and there is only one favorite concubine of the Guangxu Emperor - Zhenfei may be someone who is still familiar to everyone.
07. Positive blue flag
The Blue Banner, one of the Lower Five Banners, was originally the Upper Three Banners, and the flag color was pure blue, which was demoted to the Lower Five Banners because of Dorgon, and was commanded by the kings and Belle. Under the jurisdiction of Zhenglan, there are 83 whole collars and 11 and a half sub-collars, and the population has reached about 130,000, and there are more than 26,000 people with rich soldiers. In the imperial city guard mission, he is responsible for the southeast corner of the imperial city, on both sides of the Chongwen Gate. There are not many celebrities in the Zhenglan Banner, and Aluth Chongqi is one, he is the only bannerman of the Qing Dynasty, and he is also the father of Empress Xiaozheyi.
08. Blue flag
The blue flag, one of the lower five flags, is pure blue with a red edge, and is commanded by the kings and Baylor.
Under the jurisdiction of the blue banner, there are 87 whole collars and 1 and a half sub-collars, with a population of 135,000 and a total of 27,000 soldiers, which is the second most popular banner in the eight banners after the Yellow Banner. The blue flag is responsible for guarding the southwest corner of the imperial city, on both sides of the Xuanwu Gate. Xuanwu Gate was once known as the Gate of Death, and the noon gate beheading often mentioned in costume TV dramas is actually about the vegetable market mouth outside Xuanwu Gate. Inside the blue flag, there is a cross-talk master of our modern era, that is, Mr. Hou Baolin.
Eight Flags
09. Towards decay
The Qing Dynasty treated the flag and the Han people in various policies very differently, and the treatment of the "flag people" who were incorporated into the eight flags was completely different from the ordinary people who were not in the flag. When the Qing soldiers first entered the customs, the Qing Government adopted a large-scale "land enclosure" activity, encircling a large number of good land of the Han people and assigning them to the flag people, and exempting the flag people from taxes and labor, but the taxation on the Han people became more and more intense. And it is precisely because the Qing court maintains the flag people everywhere and gives the flag people excellent social welfare, resulting in the flag people being born to be pampered and treated well, and gradually decadent, which also causes its descendants to ride and shoot waste, not good at conquest, and only know how to walk birds and fight cockroaches. Even due to the ridiculous concept of "pure breed", frequent intermarriage between close relatives, and even the problem of fertility in the late Qing Dynasty, the three emperors of Tongzhi, Guangxu, and Xuantong were "absolutely queen" and did not leave any heirs.
Idle all day fighting
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