Editing Jurchen people (section)

===Establishment of the Manchu===
[[File:Ming era northeast asian.png|thumb|upright=1.15|Ethnic map prior to [[Jurchen unification]]]]
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Over a period of 30 years from 1586, [[Nurhaci]], a chieftain of the [[Jianzhou Jurchens]], united the Jurchen tribes. In 1635, his son and successor, [[Hong Taiji]], renamed his people the [[Manchu people|Manchus]] as a clear break from their past as Chinese vassals.<ref>{{cite ECCP|title=Abahai |page=2}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Grossnick |first1=Roy A. |year=1972 |title=Early Manchu Recruitment of Chinese Scholar-officials |publisher=University of Wisconsin—Madison |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RpdRAAAAMAAJ&q=In+1635,+doubtless+on+the+advice+of+his+Chinese+councilors,+Abahai+forbade+the+use+of+the+names, |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Till |first1=Barry |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XUVJAQAAIAAJ&q=In+1635,+doubtless+on+the+advice+of+his+Chinese+councilors,+Abahai+forbade+the+use+of+the+names, |title=The Manchu era (1644–1912): arts of China's last imperial dynasty |year=2004 |publisher=Art Gallery of Greater Victoria |page=5 |isbn=9780888852168}}</ref> During the Ming dynasty, the Koreans of [[Joseon]] referred to the Jurchen-inhabited lands north of the Korean peninsula, above the rivers Yalu and Tumen as part of the "superior country" (sangguk) which they called Ming China.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Kim |first1=Sun Joo |title=The Northern Region of Korea: History, Identity, and Culture |date=2011 |publisher=University of Washington Press |isbn=978-0295802176 |page=19 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KcYthUKyeS0C&pg=PA19}}</ref> The Qing deliberately excluded references and information that showed the Jurchens (Manchus) as subservient to the Ming dynasty, when composing the [[History of Ming]] to hide their former subservient relationship. The [[Veritable Records of Ming]] were not used to source content on Jurchens during Ming rule in the History of Ming because of this.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Smith |first1=Richard J. |title=The Qing Dynasty and Traditional Chinese Culture |date=2015 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1442221949 |page=216 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=RhmaCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA216}}</ref> The [[Yongzheng Emperor]] attempted to rewrite the historical record and claim that the Aisin Gioro were never subjects of past dynasties and empires trying to cast [[Nurhaci]]'s acceptance of Ming titles like Dragon Tiger General (longhu jiangjun 龍虎將軍) by claiming he accepted to "please Heaven".<ref>{{cite book |pages=303–304 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hbEwDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA303 |last=Crossley |first=Pamela Kyle |title=A Translucent Mirror: History and Identity in Qing Imperial Ideology |date=2002 |publisher=University of California Press |isbn=0520234243 |edition=illustrated, reprint}}</ref>

During the Qing dynasty, the two original editions of the books of the "''Qing Taizu Wu Huangdi Shilu''" and the "''Manzhou Shilu Tu''" (Taizu Shilu Tu) were kept in the palace, forbidden from public view because they showed that the Manchu Aisin Gioro family had been ruled by the Ming dynasty.<ref>{{cite ECCP |title=Nurhaci |page=598}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=The Augustan, Volumes 17-20 |date=1975 |publisher=Augustan Society |page=34 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Oh9ZAAAAMAAJ&q=They+reveal+the+real+origin+of+the+Aisin+Gioro+family}}</ref>

{{quotation|Our ''gurun'' (tribe, state) originally had the names Manju, Hada, Ula, Yehe, and Hoifa. Formerly ignorant persons have frequently called [us] ''jušen''. The term ''jušen'' refers to the Coo Mergen of Sibe barbarians and has nothing to do with our ''gurun''. Our ''gurun'' establishes the name Manju. Its rule will be long and transmitted over many generations. Henceforth persons should call our ''gurun'' its original name, Manju, and not use the previous demeaning name.|[[Hong Taiji]]}}