What is a Banner Bunyi

Baoyi, or "household servants", existed only in the eight banners of Manchuria, of which the upper three banners of the Baoyi by the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, serving the royal family; the lower five banners of the Baoyi belong to the lower five banners of the princes and nobles.

There are three main sources of the packet:

1, by the transformation of the shen (Manchu civilians). Civilians committed crimes and were reduced to slavery. Or poor and indebted, the wife and children sold into slavery.

2, family-born slaves. Pao-yi Aha generations of slaves, their children are still slaves, also known as "home-born child". Their life, marriage, residence, are to be arranged by the master.

3, war looting captives as slaves. Initially, the female real tribes conquered each other, looting each other's tribal population as slaves. Later, looting Han Chinese and Koreans as slaves. Master's private property, can gift, can also be bought and sold. The Kaesong area of Shenyang was a market for slaves.

Expanded Information

Boi Aha is called "booi haha" for men and "booi hehe" for women. The women are called "booi hehe" (booi hehe), which means the man and the woman in the family.

Ming Dynasty corruption, eunuchs in particular, "with force". In view of this, the Qing emperor inherited a variety of systems in the Ming dynasty, but first of all the eunuchs in charge of the twenty-four Yamen to be deleted and finally removed, and set up the Ministry of the Interior, to the royal family slaves - on the three banners in the coat - instead of the eunuchs of the various duties.

The House of the Interior is an extremely special identity of the feudal society of the Qing Dynasty deformed product. Inside the highest ruling group, they are oppressed, exploited victims, but outside that group, but also oppression, exploitation of the victim; on the one hand, their status is low, and on the other hand, breathing through the throne, but can be easier than others to rise to the top, false power, their wealth and honor, the actual enjoyment of the general officials than the huge Secretary, sometimes no lesser.

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