Plain White Banner

The Plain White Banner (Chinese: 正白旗; pinyin: Zhèng Bái Qí) was one of the Eight Banners of Manchu military and society during the Later Jin and Qing dynasty of China. It was one of the three "upper" banners (Plain Yellow Banner, Bordered Yellow Banner, and Plain White Banner) directly controlled by the emperor, as opposed to the other five "lower" banners. The Hoise Niru was a military unit associated with the Plain White Banner.

Plain White Banner
Plain White Banner
Active	1601 – 1912
Country	Later Jin Qing dynasty
Part of	Eight Banners
Commander	the Emperor

Plain White Banner
Chinese name
Chinese	正白旗
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin zhèngbáiqí
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Шулуун цагаан хошуу
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡤᡠᠯᡠ ᡧᠠᠩᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ
Möllendorff	gulu šanggiyan gūsa

Notable members

• Dorgon
• Dodo
• Duanfang
• John Kuan
• Ronglu
• Yinchang
• Nergingge
• Empress Xiaoshurui
• Youlan (Gūwalgiya)
• Consort Donggo
• Consort Dun
• Minggatu (Mongol)
• Imperial Noble Consort Chunhui (Han)
• Shoushan (a descendant * of Yuan Chonghuan) (Han)
• Wanrong, The Empress Xiaokemin Titular Empress of the Qing, Empress of Manchukuo, Wife of Puyi, The Xuantong Emperor

Notable clans

• Donggo
• Feimo
• Hitara
• Gūwalgiya
• Tohoro
• Su
• Cao
• Hu'erlate
• Yehe Nara
• Tubot
• Gobulo
• Ilari
• Zhu
• Chen
• Bai
• Yuan
• Wang
• Namdulu

Bibliography

• 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