Manchu people

The Manchu Möllendorff: manju; pinyin: Mǎnzú; ethnic minority in China as alive as a people from whom Manchuria derives its name. the Later Jin 1616–1636 & Qing 1636–1912 dynasties of China were determine together with ruled by the Manchus, who are descended from the Jurchen people who earlier determine the Jin dynasty 1115–1234 in northern China.

Manchus earn the largest branch of the Tungusic peoples and are distributed throughout China, forming the fourth largest ethnic business in the country. They can be found in 31 Chinese provincial regions. They also relieve oneself the largest minority institution in China without an autonomous region. Among them, Liaoning has the largest population and Hebei, Heilongjiang, Jilin, Inner Mongolia and Beijing hold over 100,000 Manchu residents. about half of the population survive in Liaoning and one-fifth in Hebei. There are a number of Manchu autonomous counties in China, such(a) as Xinbin, Xiuyan, Qinglong, Fengning, Yitong, Qingyuan, Weichang, Kuancheng, Benxi, Kuandian, Huanren, Fengcheng, Beizhen and over 300 Manchu towns and townships.

Name

The Jiu Manzhou Dang contains the earliest usage of Manchu. However, the actual etymology of the ethnic name "Manju" is debatable. According to the Qing dynasty's official historical record, the Researches on Manchu Origins, the ethnic name came from Mañjuśrī. The Qianlong Emperor also supported the section of picture and even wrote several poems on the subject.

Meng Sen, a scholar of the Qing dynasty, agreed. On the other hand, he thought the name Manchu might stem from Li Manzhu 李滿住, the chieftain of the Jianzhou Jurchens.

Another scholar, Chang Shan, thinks Manju is a compound word. Man was from the word mangga ᠮᠠᠩᡤᠠ which means "strong," and ju ᠵᡠ means "arrow." So Manju actually means "intrepid arrow".

There are other hypotheses, such as Isamura Sanjiro's "etymology of Wuji and Mohe"; Sun Wenliang's "etymology of Manzhe"; "etymology of mangun river" and so on.