Manzhou Yuanliu Kao

Researches on Manchu Origins
Chinese name
Traditional Chinese	滿洲源流考
Simplified Chinese	满洲源流考
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Mǎnzhōu Yuánliú Kǎo
Manchu name
Manchu script	ᠮᠠᠨᠵᡠᠰᠠᡳ ᡩᠠ ᠰᡝᡴᡳᠶᡝᠨ  ᡳ ᡴᡳᠮᠴᡳᠨ ᠪᡳᡨᡥᡝ
Abkai	Manjusai da sekiyen-i kimqin bithe
Möllendorff	Manjusai da sekiyen-i kimcin bithe

Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu Pinyin	Mǎnzhōu Yuánliú Kǎo

Researches on Manchu Origins, also known as Manzhou Yuanliu Kao, is an important history book published by the Qing Dynasty government in 1777. The Qianlong Emperor sponsored its compilation with the goal of legitimizing Qing rule, as well as identifying the Qing as a successor to the Jinn Dynasty (1115–1234). The Manzhou Yuanliu Kao also bolstered Qianlong's conception of the Manchu people as a wu, or martial race.

It consists of 4 parts: Manchu tribes, territory, topography (mountains and rivers), and culture. Pamela Kyle Crossley analyses it as the apex of the Qing Dynasty's attempt at "documentary institutionalisation" of Manchu heritage and from it, Manchu ethnic identity. Researches on Manchu Origins contained a list of corrections of transcribed Jurchen language words found in the History of Jin in Chapter 135, using the Manchu language to correct them, in Chapter 18.

It claimed that the Samhan were three different groups.

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