Yehe Nara

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Yehe Nara (or Yehenara,Chinese: 叶赫那拉氏; pinyin: Yèhè Nālā Shì), originally a Mongol clan, were a Manchu clan who ruled Yehe, one of the Hūlun Four States. In English translation, Yehe means 'river bank', Nara means 'sun'.

The Yehe was founded by a Tümed Mongol who conquered a Nara ruled tribe and established his realm on the banks of the Yehe river.

Yehe Nara were supporters of the Ming Emperors and resisted the unification of the Jurchen by Nurhaci to the very end, but were absorbed by force in 1619. As the last prince of Yehe Nara, Jintaiji, died by suicide, he cursed Nurhaci that as long as a Yehe Nara woman lived, she would remember their vendetta and bring down the Aisin Gioro clan. This curse seemingly became reality as the clan's last Empress Dowager Cixi's disastrous rule helped lead to the downfall of the Qing Dynasty in 1912.

Present-day descendants of the Yehenara clan generally have surnames, such as Ye, He, or Na, that reflect one syllable of the original clan name, "Yehenara."