22 Facts About Manchu people

The Jurchens and their Manchu people descendants had Khitan linguistic and grammatical elements in their personal names like suffixes.

Under the Mongols' control, the Jurchens were divided into two groups and treated differently: the ones who were born and raised in North China and fluent in Chinese were considered to be Chinese, but the people who were born and raised in the Jurchen homeland without Chinese-speaking abilities were treated as Mongols politically.

Factors for the change of name of these people from Jurchen to Manchu include the fact that the term "Jurchen" had negative connotations since the Jurchens had been in a servile position to the Ming dynasty for several hundred years, and it referred to people of the "dependent class".

Mass marriage of Han Chinese officers and officials to Manchu people women was organized to balance the massive number of Han women who entered the Manchu people court as courtesans, concubines, and wives.

The Manchu people families were paid to adopt Han Chinese sons from bondservant families by those families.

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The Jingkou and Jiangning Mongol banners and Manchu people Banners had 1,795 adopted Han Chinese and the Beijing Mongol Banners and Manchu people Banners had 2,400 adopted Han Chinese in statistics taken from the 1821 census.

The majority of the hundreds of thousands of people living in inner Beijing during the Qing were Manchus and Mongol bannermen from the Eight Banners after they were moved there in 1644, since Han Chinese were expelled and not allowed to re-enter the inner part of the city.

The Manchu people Bannermen were devastated by the fighting during the First Sino-Japanese War and the Boxer Rebellion, sustaining massive casualties during the wars and subsequently being driven into extreme suffering and hardship.

Many Manchu people villages were burned by Cossacks in the massacre according to Victor Zatsepine.

Manchu people language is a Tungusic language and has many dialects.

Manchu people's achievement is called "script with dots and circles" or "new Manchu script".

Manchu are often mistakenly labelled a nomadic people, but they were sedentary agricultural people who lived in fixed villages, farmed crops and practiced hunting and mounted archery.

Traditional hairstyle for Manchu people men is shaving the front of their heads while growing the hair on the back of their heads into a single braid called a queue, which was known as soncoho in Manchu people.

Manchu people women wore their hair in a distinctive hairstyle called liangbatou.

All first, second and third rank officials as well as Han Chinese and Manchu people nobles were entitled to wear 9 dragons by the Qing Illustrated Precedents.

Manchu people hats are either formal or casual, formal hats being made in two different styles, straw for spring and summer, and fur for fall and winter.

The Manchu people have traditional jewelry which evokes their past as hunters.

The history of Manchu people wrestling can be traced back to Jurchen wrestling in the Jin dynasty which was originally from Khitan wrestling; it was very similar to Mongolian wrestling.

Manchu people wrestling moves can be found in today's Chinese wrestling, shuai jiao, which is its most important part.

Manchu people frequently appeared in many of Beijing's skating rinks.

Manchu people was considered as the God Protector of the Nation and was sincerely worshipped by Manchus.

Traditionally on this day, Manchu people eat perilla or cabbage wraps with rice, scrambled eggs, beef or pork.