Manchurian uniform colors
Why were some wearing red and some wearing blue? Were they just different regiments?
shareExcellent question. I am happy to answer, being a history fan myself.
In the early 1600s, the Manchurian tribes united under a brilliant Manchu chieftain, Nurhachi, who became overall ruler and proclaimed emperor of united Manchuria. One of the results was the immensely effective, highly organized Manchurian cavalry army, divided into FOUR BANNERS (large colorful flag), each denoted by its own color. What you saw in each color was a different 'banner army'.
During the Manchurian conquest of Ming China in 1644, the Manchurian army was further enlarged and subdivided into, EIGHT BANNERS, the extra four banners were actually colors of the first four but with different colored edged trimmings around the banners.
Manchurian cavalry soldiers of the four then later eight banner armies were informally referred to as, "bannermen", a single Manchu being a, 'bannerman'.
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nice reply...may i ask if the manchurian dynasty links back to genghis khan...their use of arrows would lead me to believe so
shareNo, the Manchus and the Mongols were different peoples. Instead of linking back to Genghis Khan, the Manchus' ancestors were the Jurchen (Jušen) people whose empire was conquered by him in the late 13th century.
A good number of Mongol tribes in the early 17th century, though, were subjugated to the unified Manchu khanate, which became Qing (Ch'ing) Empire in the 1630s shortly before they moved to subjugate Joseon (Chosŏn), the Korean dynasty that ruled from the late 14th through the late 19th century.
Mongol and Han Chinese soldiers had constituted additional eight Mongol and eight Han Banners by the time the Qing conquered all of China in the 1640s. They remained rulers of China (including Manchuria and Mongolia) until the early 20th century.