19 Facts About Manchu

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

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 women was organized to balance the massive number of Han women who entered the Manchu court as courtesans, concubines, and wives.

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

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

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

Manchu language is a Tungusic language and has many dialects.

Manchu'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 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.

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

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

Manchu 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.

Manchu wrestling is an important martial art of the Manchu people.

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

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