Nasutu

Nasutu (Manchu: ᠨᠠᠰᡠᡨᡠ᠋, Mulin De transcription: Nasutu, ?—1749), courtesy name Xiweng, of the Daijia clan, a Manchu of the Mianzhong Banner. A Qing dynasty official, father of Consort Xin of Emperor Qianlong.

Biographical Notes

In the thirty-sixth year of Kangxi (1697), he succeeded to the official hereditary post of Tuo Sha La Ha Fan (Yunqi Wei). In the fiftieth year of Kangxi (1711), he was appointed Blue Banner Guard. In the second year of Yongzheng (1724), he was promoted to First-Class Guard; in the fifth year, he was transferred to Vice Minister of War; later sent to serve as the General of Heilongjiang; in the eighth year, reassigned as Feng Tian General. In the first year of Qianlong (1736), he was promoted to Minister of War. In the second year of Qianlong (1737), he was appointed Governor-General of Liangjiang; two years later, he resigned due to mourning period, succeeded by Hao Yulun of the Han Chinese Bannerman of the Groomed Yellow Banner. In the fifth year, he served as Minister of Justice and acting Governor-General of Huguang. In the sixth year of Qianlong (1741), he again served as Governor-General of Liangjiang. In the seventh year, Governor-General of Guangdong and Guangxi. In the tenth year, transferred to Governor-General of Zhili (succeeded by Gao Bin of the Manchu Banner of the Groomed Yellow Banner), promoted to Crown Prince's Junior Tutor. In the thirteenth year, promoted to Crown Prince’s Grand Secretary, and appointed as Inner Military Attache. Died in the fourteenth year of Qianlong (1749), granted funeral and burial rites, posthumously honored with the title Keqin, enshrined in the Hall of Eminent and Virtuous. Also authored the preface to the Qianlong edition of the "Baochi County Gazette" (engraved in 1745, edited by Hong Zhaomao, with prefaces by Wang Yudun and Qian Chenyu).

Family and Ancestry

Ancestors traced back to Dui Qi, of the Groomed Yellow Banner, a kin of Muketan Batulu, traditionally residing in Hangjia; migrated back during the early Qing (according to the "Eight Banner Manchu Clan Genealogies"). His grandfather, Galu, in 1648, succeeded his uncle S Heqi Duwei, serving as guard captain, internal affairs officer, and from Kangxi’s seventh to twenty-seventh years, he managed the Grand Secretariat, dying in office. Emperor Kangxi specially granted him the title of the first Manchu of the Second Banner of the Groomed Yellow Banner, second lineage. His father, Daochan (Daocan), served as a guard and was appointed as the chief envoy to the Ge’erdan tribe, died in the 36th year of Kangxi during a mission, surname Yuqi Wei. His elder uncle, Haiqing (Haiqing), born around the 1650s, died in 1710, served as a guard at the imperial court, participated in the Qing campaigns against Galdan, promoted to Grand Secretary, posthumously honored as Guoyi.

Children and Marriages

His second son, Ayuxi, inherited the position of Yunqi Wei. His son, Amin Da, married Aisin Gioro clan. His five daughters married into various clans, each with arranged marriages: the first daughter was a Dien Jia clan and became Empress Xin of Emperor Qianlong; the second daughter, also of the Dien Jia clan, married You Shi An Ning, a Han Bannerman of the Inner Court Guard Yellow Banner and acting prefect of Jiangsu; the third daughter married Minister of Justice Wanyan Qi Cheng’e, her son being Yan Prefect of Henan, Wanyan Dai; the fourth daughter married Fulong A of the Groomed Yellow Banner of Manchu and Inner Court Minister Nuo Hulu; the fifth daughter married Ming Xing of the Fuxian clan, of the Groomed Yellow Banner, a First-Class Guard and Governor of Shanxi.