Han Chinese Eight Banners

This article is about the Han Chinese division of the Eight Banners. For the Han Chinese bondservant companies under the Manchu division of the Eight Banners, commonly called "bondservant Han army" or "Imperial Household Han army", see Cigu Niru. For Han Chinese slaves of the Eight Banners, see zh:旗下家奴.

Han Chinese Eight Banners
Active	1642–1928
Country	Qing dynasty Beiyang government
Type	Infantry, Cavalry, Artillery, Navy
Part of	Han Chinese Banner Commanders
Garrison/HQ	Beijing, Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Xi'an, Hangzhou, Northeast China
Engagements	Qing conquest of the Ming
Commanders
Notable commanders	Third-class Viscount Li Yongfang Second-class Viscount Tong Yangxing Third-class Viscount Shi Tingzhu Prince of Pingnan Shang Kexi Prince of Jingnan Geng Zhongming Zu Dashou Third-class Light Chariot Lieutenant Hong Chengchou
Insignia
Military banners	Upper Three Banners: Bordered Yellow Banner Plain Yellow Banner Plain White Banner Lower Five Banners: Plain Red Banner Bordered White Banner Bordered Red Banner Plain Blue Banner Bordered Blue Banner

Han Chinese Eight Banners
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	漢軍八旗
Simplified Chinese	汉军八旗
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin hànjūn bāqí Yue: Cantonese Yale Romanization hon gwān baat kèih Jyutping hon3 gwan1 baat3 kei4
Mongolian name
Mongolian Cyrillic	Хятад найман хошуу
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᡠᠵᡝᠨ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠᡳ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ
Abkai	ujen qouhai gvsa
Möllendorff	ujen coohai gūsa

Han Chinese Eight Banners (Manchu: ᡠᠵᡝᠨ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠᡳ ᡤᡡᠰᠠ, romanized: ujen coohai gūsa), Chinese Eight Banners or Ujen Cooha(Manchu: ᡠᠵᡝᠨ ᠴᠣᠣᡥᠠ, romanized: ujen cooha;), originally called Eight Banners Han Army, and commonly referred to as the Han Army, Han Army Banner Division or the Han-martial Eight Banners, were hereditary military units, and later honorary posts of Han Chinese ethnicity within the Eight Banners of the Qing dynasty. The Han Chinese Eight Banners formed a key component of the dynasty's Eight Banner system, and its members were known as Hanjun (Chinese: 漢軍; pinyin: hànjūn), or Han Army bannermen. Most descendants of Han Chinese Bannermen, alongside other members of the Eight Banners but with Han Chinese ethnicity such as Cigu Niru and Banner slaves, were redefined as part of "Manchu ethnicity" by the People's Republic of China during the period of redefination of ethnic identification policy.