The Plain Blue Banner (Chinese : 正藍旗 ) was one of the Eight Banners of Manchu military and society during the Later Jin and Qing dynasty of China.[ 1]
Members
Soldiers of the Plain Blue Banner during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor
Notable Clans
References
^ Elliott, Mark C. (2006). The Manchu way: the eight banners and ethnic identity in late imperial China (Nachdr. ed.). Stanford, Calif: Stanford Univ. Press. ISBN 978-0-8047-4684-7 .
Further reading
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
Banners
Upper Three Banners Lower Five Banners
Supreme commanders Classes Ethnic
Outer Companies Inner Companies