Nurhaci

Nurhaci (14 May 1559 – 30 September 1626) was a Jurchen chieftain who rose to prominence in the late 16th century in Manchuria. Nurhaci was part of the Aisin Gioro clan, and reigned as the founding Khan of Later Jin from 1616 to 1626.

In this Manchu name, the given name is Nurhaci. In accordance with Manchu custom, it should be used solely or with titles but not with the clan name Aisin Gioro.
Nurhaci
努爾哈赤
Khan of Later Jin
Reign17 February 1616 – 30 September 1626
SuccessorHong Taiji
BornAisin Gioro Nurhaci
(愛新覺羅 努爾哈赤)
14 May 1559
(嘉靖三十八年 四月 初八日)
Hetu Ala, Manchuria
Died30 September 1626(1626-09-30) (aged 67)
(天命十一年 八月 十一日)
Aiji Fort, Manchuria
Burial
Fu Mausoleum
Consorts
    Tunggiya Hahana Jacing
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    (m. 1577; died 1592)​
      Fuca Gundei
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      (m. 1585; died 1620)​
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        (m. 1588; died 1603)​
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          (m. 1601⁠–⁠1626)​
          Issue
          Full name
          Aisin Gioro Nurhaci
          (愛新覺羅 努爾哈赤)
          Manchu: Nurgaci (ᠨᡠᡵᡤᠠᠴᡳ)
          Mongolian: Нурхач (ᠨᠤᠷᠠᠭᠴᠢ)
          Era dates
          Tianming
          (天命; 14 May 1616 – 15 February 1627)
          Manchu: Abkai fulingga (ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ ᡶᡠᠯᡳᠩᡤᠠ)
          Mongolian: Тэнгэрийн сүлдэт (ᠲᠩᠷᠢ ᠶᠢᠨ ᠰᠦᠯᠳᠡᠲᠦ)
          Posthumous name
          Emperor Chengtian Guangyun Shengde Shengong Zhaoji Liji Renxiao Ruiwu Duanyi Qin'an Hongwen Dingye Gao
          (承天廣運聖德神功肇紀立極仁孝睿武端毅欽安弘文定業高皇帝)
          Manchu: Dergi hūwangdi (ᡩᡝᡵᡤᡳ
          ᡥᡡᠸᠠᠩᡩᡳ          )
          Temple name
          Taizu
          (太祖)
          Manchu: Taidzu (ᡨᠠᡳᡯᡠ)
          HouseAisin Gioro
          FatherTaksi
          MotherEmpress Xuan

          Nurhaci reorganised and united various Jurchen tribes (the later "Manchu"), consolidated the Eight Banners military system, and eventually launched attacks on Ming dynasty of China and Joseon dynasty of Korea. His conquest of Ming dynasty's northeastern Liaodong province laid the groundwork for the conquest of the rest of China by his descendants, who founded the Qing dynasty in 1636. He is also generally credited with ordering the creation of a new written script for the Manchu language based on the Mongolian vertical script.

          Name and titles

          Nurhaci is written as ᠨᡠᡵᡤᠠᠴᡳ in Manchu language. Some suggests that the meaning of the name in the Manchu language is "the skin of a wild boar".[1] Regarded as the founding father of the Qing dynasty, he is given the customary temple name of Taizu, which is traditionally assigned to founders of dynasties. His name is also alternatively spelled Nurgaci, Nurhachi, or Nu-er-ha-chi (the last of these simply the transcription of the Chinese characters used to write his name).

          Nurhaci was the last chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens and First Khan of the Later Jin dynasty. His title in Manchu as Khan was ᡤᡝᡵᡝᠨ
          ᡤᡠᡵᡠᠨ ᠪᡝ
          ᡠᠵᡳᡵᡝ
          ᡤᡝᠩᡤᡳᠶᡝᠨ
          ᡥᠠᠨ           Geren Gurun-be Ujire Genggiyen Han ("Brilliant Khan Who Benefits All Nations"). His era name was Tianming (Chinese: 天命; Wade–Giles: T'ien-ming; Manchu:ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ
          ᡶᡠᠯᡳᠩᡤᠠ           Abkai Fulingga), in Mongolian Тэнгэрийн сүлдэт Tengri-yin Süldetü. It means "Heaven's Mandate." He was given a posthumous name in 1736 (see infobox), the shortened form of which was "Emperor Gao" (Wade–Giles: Emperor Kao; Chinese: 高皇帝, Manchu:ᠠᠪᡴᠠᡳ
          ᡶᡠᠯᡳᠩᡤᠠ           Dergi Hūwangdi)

          Early life

          Nurhaci was born on 8 April 1559. Being a member of the Gioro clan of the Suksuhu River tribe, Nurhaci also claimed descent from Mentemu, a Jurchen headman who lived some two centuries earlier. The young man grew up as a soldier in the household of the Ming dynasty general Li Chengliang in Fushun, where he learned Quonha, the official language of the courts. Nurhaci read the Chinese novels Romance of the Three Kingdoms and Water Margin learning all he knew about Chinese military and political strategies from them.[2][3][4] He named his clan Aisin Gioro around 1612, when he formally ascended the throne as the Khan of the Later Jin dynasty.

          In 1582, Nurhaci's father Taksi and grandfather Giocangga were killed in an attack on Gure (now a village in Xinbin Manchu Autonomous County) by a rival Jurchen chieftain, Nikan Wailan ("Nikan Wailan" means "secretary of Han Chinese" in the Jurchen language, thus his existence is suspected by some historians.) while being led by Li Chengliang. The following year, Nurhaci began to unify the Jurchen bands around his area.

          In 1584, when Nurhaci was 25, he attacked Nikan Wailan at Turun (today a village in Xinbin too) to avenge the deaths of his father and grandfather, who are said to have left him nothing but thirteen suits of armor. Nikan Wailan fled away to Erhun, which Nurhaci attacked again in 1587. Nikan Wailan this time fled to Li Chengliang's territory. Later, as a way to build relationship, Li gave Nikan Wailan to Nurhaci, who beheaded Nikan Wailan immediately. With Li's support, Nurhaci gradually grew his strength in the following years.

          Unifying the Jurchen tribes
          Main article: Jurchen unification
          See also: Timeline of the Jurchens

          In 1593, the Yehe called upon a coalition of nine tribes: the Hada, Ula, Hoifa, Khorchin Mongols, Sibe, Guwalca, Jušeri, Neyen, and the Yehe themselves to attack the Jianzhou Jurchens. The coalition was defeated at the Battle of Gure and Nurhaci emerged victorious.[5]

          From 1599 to 1618, Nurhaci set out on a campaign against the four Hulun tribes. He began by attacking the Hada in 1599 and conquering them in 1603. Then in 1607, Hoifa was also conquered with the death of its beile Baindari, followed by an expedition against Ula and its beile Bujantai in 1613, and finally the Yehe and its beile Gintaisi at the Battle of Sarhu in 1619.

          In 1599, Nurhaci gave two of his translators, Erdeni Baksi ('Jewel Teacher' in Mongolian) and Dahai Jargūci,[6] the task of creating a Manchu alphabet by adapting the Mongolian script. Dahai was described with his origin from the Liao valley and his ethnicity as Han Chinese in the Korean book "Nanjung chamnok; Sok chamnok" (亂中雜錄 / [趙慶南撰) by Cho Kyŏng-nam (趙慶南) (1570-1641) a Korean official and scholar, contradicting Qing texts which says his clan is Giolca. The Qing texts said Dahau's family lived near Fushun in the Giolca region.[7]

          In 1606, he was granted the title of Kundulun Khan by the Mongols.

          At the Battle of Sarhu Nurhaci defeated a four-pronged Chinese offensive intended to capture his capital of Hetu Ala by concentrating his forces in one column at a time.

          In 1616, Nurhaci declared himself Khan and founded the Jin dynasty (aisin gurun), often called the Later Jin in reference to the legacy of the earlier Jurchen Jin dynasty of the 12th century. He constructed a palace at Mukden (present-day Shenyang, Liaoning). The "Later Jin" was renamed to "Qing" by his son Hong Taiji after his death in 1626, however Nurhaci is usually referred to as the founder of the Qing dynasty.

          In order to help with the newly organized administration, five of his trusted companions were appointed as his chief councilors, Anfiyanggū, Eidu, Hūrhan, Fiongdon, and Hohori.

          Nurhaci captured Liaoyang in 1621 and made it the capital of his empire until 1625.

          Only after he became Khan did he finally unify the Ula (clan of his consort Lady Abahai, mentioned below) and the Yehe, the clan of his consort Monggo Jerjer.

          Nurhaci chose to variously emphasize either differences or similarities in lifestyles with other peoples like the Mongols for political reasons.[8] Nurhaci said to the Mongols that "The languages of the Chinese and Koreans are different, but their clothing and way of life is the same. It is the same with us Manchus (Jurchen) and Mongols. Our languages are different, but our clothing and way of life is the same." Later Nurhaci indicated that the bond with the Mongols was not based in any real shared culture, rather it was for pragmatic reasons of "mutual opportunism", when he said to the Mongols: "You Mongols raise livestock, eat meat and wear pelts. My people till the fields and live on grain. We two are not one country and we have different languages."[9]

          When the Jurchens were reorganized by Nurhaci into the Eight Banners, many Manchu clans were artificially created as a group of unrelated people founded a new Manchu clan (mukun) using a geographic origin name such as a toponym for their hala (clan name).[10] The irregularities over Jurchen and Manchu clan origin led to the Qing trying to document and systematize the creation of histories for Manchu clans, including manufacturing an entire legend around the origin of the Aisin Gioro clan by taking mythology from the northeast.[11]

          Invasion of Ming China
          See also: Qing conquest of the Ming

          In 1618, Nurhaci commissioned a document entitled the Seven Grievances in which he enumerated seven problems with Ming rule and began to rebel against the domination of the Ming dynasty. A majority of the grievances dealt with conflicts against Yehe, and Ming favouritism of Yehe.

          Nurhaci led many successful engagements against the Ming Chinese, the Koreans, the Mongols, and other Jurchen clans, greatly enlarging the territory under his control.

          The first capitals of the state established by Nurhaci were Fe Ala and Hetu Ala.[12][13][14][15][16] Han Chinese participated in the construction of Hetu Ala, the capital of Nurhaci's state.[17]

          Defectors from the Ming side played a massive role in the Qing conquest of the Ming. Ming generals who defected to the Manchus were often married to women from the Aisin Gioro clan while lower-ranked defectors were given non-imperial Manchu women as wives. Nurhaci arranged for a marriage between one of his granddaughters and the Ming general Li Yongfang (李永芳) after Li surrendered Fushun in Liaoning to the Manchus in 1618 as the result of the Battle of Fushun.[18][19][20][21][22] His son Abatai's daughter was married to Li Yongfang.[23][24][25][26] The offspring of Li received the "Third Class Viscount" (三等子爵; sān děng zǐjué) title.[27] Li Yongfang was the great great great grandfather of Li Shiyao 李侍堯.[28][29]

          The Han prisoner of war Gong Zhenglu (Onoi) was appointed to instruct Nurhaci's sons and received gifts of slaves, wives, and a domicile from Nurhaci after Nurhaci rejected offers of payment to release him back to his relatives.[30]

          Nurhaci had treated Han in Liaodong differently according to how much grain they had, those with less than 5 to 7 sin were treated like chattel while those with more than that amount were rewarded with property. Due to a revolt by Han in Liaodong in 1623, Nurhachi, who previously gave concessions to conquered Han subjects in Liaodong, turned against them and ordered that they no longer be trusted and enacted discriminatory policies and killings against them, while ordering that Han who assimilated to the Jurchen (in Jilin) before 1619 be treated equally as Jurchens were and not like the conquered Han in Liaodong.

          By May 1621, Nurhaci had conquered the cities of Liaoyang and Shenyang. In April 1625, he designated Shenyang the new capital city, which would hold that status until the Qing conquest of the Ming in 1644.[31]

          Nurhaci watching his army storm the walls of Ningyuan, 1626.

          Finally in 1626, Nurhaci suffered the first serious military defeat of his life at the hands of the Ming general Yuan Chonghuan. Nurhaci was wounded by the Portuguese-made cannons in Yuan's army at the Battle of Ningyuan. Unable to recover either physically or mentally, he died two days later in Aiji Fort (靉雞堡; in present-day Da'aijinbao Village, Dijia Township, Yuhong District, Shenyang) on 30 September at the age of 67. His tomb, Fu Mausoleum (Chinese: 福陵; pinyin: Fúlíng), is located east of Shenyang.

          The first Manchu translations of Chinese works were the Six Secret Teachings (六韜), Sushu 素書, and Three Strategies of Huang Shigong (三略), all Chinese military texts dedicated to the arts of war due to the Manchu interests in the topic, like Sun-Tzu's work The Art of War.[32][33] The military related texts which were translated into Manchu from Chinese were translated by Dahai.[34]

          Manchu translations of Chinese texts included the Ming penal code and military texts were performed by Dahai.[35] These translations were requested of Dahai by Nurhaci.[36] The military text Wuzi was translated into Manchu along with The Art of War.[37]

          Chinese history, Chinese law, and Chinese military theory classical texts were translated into Manchu during the rule of Hong Taiji in Mukden (now Shenyang), with the Manchus placing significance upon military and governance related Chinese texts.[38] A Manchu translation was made of the military-themed novel Romance of the Three Kingdoms.[39][40] Chinese literature, military theory and legal texts were translated into Manchu by Dahai and Erdeni.[41] The translations were ordered in 1629.[42]

          The translation of the military texts Sushu and Three Strategies of Huang Shigong, and the Da Ming Huidian (大明會典) done by Dahai was ordered by Nurhaci.[43] While it was mainly administrative and ethical guidance which made up most of the Three Strategies of Huang Shigong and the Sushu, military science was indeed found in the Six Secret Teachings and Chinese military manuals were eagerly translated by the Manchus. They were also attracted to the military content in Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which is why it was translated.[44] The Art of War was translated into Manchu as ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠᡳ
          ᠪᠠᡳᡨᠠ
          ᠪᡝ
          ᡤᡳᠰᡠᡵᡝᠩᡤᡝ           Abkai: qoohai baita be gisurengge,[45][46] Möllendorff: coohai baita be gisurengge, Discourse on the art of War.[47] Another later Manchu translation was made by Aisin Gioro Qiying.[48]

          Legacy
          In 1621, Nurhaci started the construction of a new palace, the Mukden Palace, for his Later Jin dynasty's capital of Mukden (now Shenyang).

          Among the most lasting contributions Nurhaci left his descendants was the establishment of the Eight Banners, which would eventually form the backbone of the military that dominated the Qing Empire. The status of Banners did not change much over the course of Nurhaci's lifetime, nor in subsequent reigns, remaining mostly under the control of the royal family. The two elite Yellow Banners were consistently under Nurhaci's control. The two Blue Banners were controlled by Nurhaci's brother Šurhaci until he died, at which point the Blue Banners were given to Šurhaci's two sons, Chiurhala and Amin. Nurhaci's eldest son, Cuyen, controlled the White Banner for most of his father's reign until he rebelled. Then the Bordered White Banner was given to Nurhaci's grandson and the Plain White was given to his eighth son and heir, Hong Taiji. However, by the end of Nurhaci's reign, Hong Taiji controlled both White Banners. Finally, the Red Banner was run by Nurhaci's second son Daišan. Later in Nurhaci's reign, the Bordered Red Banner was handed down to his son. Daišan and his son would continue holding the two Red Banners well into the end of Hong Taiji's reign.

          Battle of Ningyuan in which Nurhaci was wounded and died

          The details of Hong Taiji's succession as the Khan of the Later Jin dynasty are unclear.[49] When he died in late 1626, Nurhaci did not designate an heir; instead he encouraged his sons to rule collegially.[50] Three of his sons and a nephew were the "four senior beiles": Daišan (43 years old), Amin (son of Nurhaci's brother Šurhaci; 40 or 41), Manggūltai (38 or 39), and Hong Taiji himself (33).[51] On the day after Nurhaci's death, they coerced his primary consort Lady Abahai (1590–1626) – who had borne him three sons: Ajige, Dorgon, and Dodo – to commit suicide to accompany him in death.[52] This gesture has made some historians suspect that Nurhaci had in fact named the fifteen-year-old Dorgon as a successor, with Daišan as regent.[53] By forcing Dorgon's mother to kill herself, the princes removed a strong base of support for Dorgon. The reason such intrigue was necessary is that Nurhaci had left the two elite Yellow Banners to Dorgon and Dodo, who were the sons of Lady Abahai. Hong Taiji exchanged control of his two White Banners for that of the two Yellow Banners, shifting their influence and power from his young brothers onto himself.

          According to Hong Taiji's later recollections, Amin and the other beile were willing to accept Hong Taiji as Khan, but Amin then would have wanted to leave with his Bordered Blue Banner, threatening to dissolve Nurhaci's unification of the Jurchens.[54] Eventually the older Daišan worked out a compromise that allowed Hong Taiji as the Khan, but almost equal to the other three senior beiles.[55] Hong Taiji would eventually find ways to become the undisputed leader.

          The change of the name from Jurchen to Manchu by Hong Taiji was made to hide the fact that the ancestors of the Manchus, the Jianzhou Jurchens, were ruled by the Chinese.[56][57][58] The Qing dynasty carefully hid the two original editions of the books of "Qing Taizu Wu Huangdi Shilu" and the "Manzhou Shilu Tu" (Taizu Shihlu Tu) in the Qing palace, forbidden from public view because they showed that the Manchu Aisin Gioro family had been ruled by the Ming dynasty.[59][60] In the Ming period, the Koreans of Joseon referred to the Jurchen-inhabited lands north of the Korean peninsula, above the rivers Yalu and Tumen, as part of Ming China, which they called the "superior country" (sangguk).[61]

          Primary sources

          Information concerning Nurhaci can be found in later, propagandistic works such as the Manchu Veritable Records (Chinese: 滿洲實錄; pinyin: Mǎnzhōu Shílù; Manchu:ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠ  ᡳ
          ᠶᠠᡵᡤᡳᠶᠠᠨ
          ᡴᠣᠣᠯᡳ          , Möllendorff: manju-i yargiyan kooli). Good contemporary sources are also available. For instance, much material concerning Nurhaci's rise is preserved within Korean sources such as the Veritable Records of the Joseon Dynasty (Chinese: 朝鮮王朝實錄), especially the Seonjo Sillok and the Gwanghaegun Ilgi. Indeed, the record of Sin Chung-il's trip to Jianzhou is preserved in the Seonjo Sillok.

          The Jiu Manzhou Dang from Nurhaci's reign also survives. A revised transcription of these records (with the dots and circles added to the script) was commissioned by the Qianlong Emperor. This has been translated into Japanese under the title Manbun roto, and Chinese, under the title Manwen Laodang (Chinese: 满文老檔). A project is currently under way at Harvard University to translate them into English, as The Old Manchu Chronicles.[62]

          Physical appearance

          According to the account of Korean ambassadors, Nurhaci was a physically strong man with a long and stern-looking face and that his nose was straight and big, and just like most of the other Manchu men, he shaved most of his facial hair and kept only his moustache.

          Family

          Consorts and Issue:

          • Primary consort, of the Tunggiya clan (元妃 佟佳氏; 1560–1592), personal name Hahana Jacing (哈哈納扎青)
            • Princess Duanzhuang of the First Rank (端莊固倫公主; 8 April 1578 – August/September 1652), personal name Nenzhe (嫩哲), first daughter
              • Married Hohori (何和禮; 1561–1624) of the Manchu Donggo clan in 1588
            • Cuyen, Crown Prince (皇太子 褚英; 1580 – 14 October 1615), first son
            • Daišan, Prince Lilie of the First Rank (禮烈親王 代善; 19 August 1583 – 25 November 1648), second son
          • Primary consort, of the Fuca clan (繼妃 富察氏; d. 1620), personal name Gundei (袞代)
            • Manggūltai, Prince of the Third Rank (貝勒 莽古爾泰; 1587 – 11 January 1633), fifth son
            • Third daughter (1590 – January/February 1636), personal name Mangguji (莽古濟)
              • Married Urgūdai (吳爾古代) of the Manchu Hada Nara clan in February/March 1601
              • Married Sodnom Dügüreng (索諾木杜棱; d. 1644) of the Aohan Borjigit clan in 1627
            • Degelei, Prince of the Third Rank (貝勒 德格類; 10 January 1597 – 11 November 1635), tenth son
          • Empress Xiaocigao, of the Yehe Nara clan (孝慈高皇后 葉赫那拉氏; 1575 – 31 October 1603), personal name Monggo Jerjer (孟古哲哲)
            • Hong Taiji, Taizong (太宗 皇太極; 28 November 1592 – 21 September 1643), eighth son
          • Empress Xiaoliewu, of the Ula Nara clan (孝烈武皇后 烏拉那拉氏; 1590 – 1 October 1626), personal name Abahai (阿巴亥)
          • Consort Shoukang, of the Khorchin Borjigit clan (壽康妃 博爾濟吉特氏; 1599 – 21 January 1666)
          • Secondary consort, of the Irgen Gioro clan (側福晉 伊爾根覺羅氏)
            • Princess of the Second Rank (和碩公主; 1587 – August/September 1646), personal name Yanzhe (顏哲), second daughter
              • Married Yilaka (伊拉喀)
              • Married Darhan (達爾漢; 1590–1644) of the Manchu Gorolo (郭絡羅) clan
            • Abatai, Prince Raoyumin of the First Rank (饒余敏親王 阿巴泰; 27 July 1589 – 10 May 1646), seventh son
          • Secondary consort, of the Yehe Nara clan (側福晉 葉赫那拉氏 ), personal name Nanakun (纳纳昆)
            • Princess of the Second Rank (和碩公主; 28 December 1612 – March/April 1646), personal name Songgutu (松古圖), eighth daughter
              • Married Gürbüshi (古爾布什; d. 1661) of the Khalkha Borjigit clan on 22 February 1625
          • Mistress, of the Joogiya clan (兆佳氏)
            • Abai, Duke Qinmin of the First Rank (鎮國勤敏公 阿拜; 8 September 1585 – 14 March 1648), third son
          • Mistress, of the Niohuru clan (鈕祜祿氏)
            • Tanggūdai, General Kejie of the First Rank (鎮國克潔將軍 湯古代; 24 December 1585 – 3 November 1640), fourth son
            • Tabai, Duke Quehou of the Second Rank (輔國愨厚公 塔拜; 2 April 1589 – 6 September 1639), sixth son
          • Mistress, of the Giyamuhut Gioro clan (嘉穆瑚覺羅氏), personal name Zhenge (真哥)
            • Babutai, Duke Kexi of the First Rank (鎮國恪僖公 巴布泰; 13 December 1592 – 27 February 1655), ninth son
            • Princess of the Second Rank (和碩公主; 1595 – June/July 1659), personal name Mukushen (穆庫什), fourth daughter
              • Married Bujantai (1575–1618) of the Manchu Ula Nara clan in 1608, and had issue (three sons)
              • Married Eidu (1562–1621) of the Manchu Niohuru clan, and had issue (two sons including Ebilun, one daughter)
              • Married Turgei (圖爾格; 1594–1645) of the Manchu Niohuru clan in 1621
            • Babuhai, General of the First Rank (鎮國將軍 巴布海; 15 January 1597 – September/October 1643), 11th son
            • Fifth daughter (1597–1613)
              • Married Daki (達啟) of the Manchu Niohuru clan in 1608
            • Sixth daughter (1600 – October/November 1646)
              • Married Suna (蘇納; d. 1648) of the Manchu Yehe Nara clan in 1613, and had issue (Suksaha)
          • Mistress, of the Irgen Gioro clan (伊爾根覺羅氏)
            • Lady of the Third Rank (鄉君; 8 April 1604 – July/August 1685), seventh daughter
              • Married Ezhayi (鄂札伊; d. 1641) of the Manchu Nara clan in November/December 1619
          • Mistress, of the Sirin Gioro clan (西林覺羅氏)
            • Laimbu, Duke Jiezhi of the Second Rank (輔國介直公 賴慕布; 26 January 1612 – 23 June 1646), 13th son
          • Mistress, personal name Daiyinzha (代因扎)
            • Fiyanggū (費揚果; October/November 1620 – 1640), 16th son

          Ancestry
          Sibeoci Fiyanggū
          Fuman
          Giocangga (1526–1583)
          Douliji
          Empress Zhi
          Taksi (1543–1583)
          Empress Yi
          Nurhaci (1559–1626)
          Douliji
          Cancha
          Agu
          Empress Xuan (d. 1569)

          Science

          The genus Nurhachius, a pterodactyloid pterosaur, is named after Nurhaci.

          See also

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          Nurhaci
          Born: 1558 Died: 30 September 1626
          Regnal titles
          Preceded by
          Taksi          		 Chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens
          1583–1616          		 Position abolished
          Manchu-led Later Jin was established in 1616
          New title
          Manchu-led Later Jin was established in 1616
          		 Khan of Later Jin
          1616–1626          		 Succeeded by
          Hong Taiji
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