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Chinese military leader In this Manchu name, the given name is Aisingga. In accordance with Manchu custom, it should be used alone or with titles but not with the clan name Šumuru.

Aixinga (Manchu: ᠠᡳᠰᡳᠩᡤᠠ, Möllendorff: aisingga; Chinese: 愛星阿; pinyin: Àixīng'ā, d. 1664) was a Qing dynasty general who was a grandson of Prince Yangguri (揚古利) and the head of the Šumuru tribe. He served under Nurhaci and Hong Taiji. In 1660, he was appointed "General Who Pacifies the West" (定西將軍) to command the Qing forces in Yunnan fighting the Ming loyalists. In 1661, Aixinga advanced into Burma with Wu Sangui and captured the Southern Ming pretender Zhu Youlang. He was canonised as Jìngkāng (敬康).

References

This article incorporates text from entry Ai-hsing-a in A Chinese Biographical Dictionary by Herbert A. Giles (1898), a publication now in the public domain.

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