There are three major families of the Manchu people surnamed Liu in Qingyuan, Liaoning. One is the Ningguta family. The descendants of the family are in Zhenghuang Banner and Xianglan Banner in Manchuria. Their ancestral home comes from the Hailang River in the Mudanjiang area of ??Heilongjiang today.

There is another family, the Liu family of the Eight Banners Han Army, who carried the flag into Manchuria. Mainly the Manchurian white flag, and some are red flags.

The last family is the Niugulu family. Most of the descendants of this family today are surnamed Lang, and a few descendants are surnamed Liu, who raised the yellow flag for Manchuria. Their ancestors entered Beijing during the Shunzhi period, and in the 25th year of Emperor Kangxi's reign in the Qing Dynasty, they were ordered to be transferred back to their hometown in Northeast China to farm.

If your family's surname was Wei, then there should be two situations.

The first type is to use the first name to replace the surname. There is a custom among the Manchus, which is to use Mou to take a character from the name of the ancestor as the surname of the descendant. Your family may have an ancestor named Wei... or... ... Wei, so descendants have used the surname Wei, but it is also a Manchu custom to use multiple surnames in a family, so do not understand Manchu surnames based on the concept of Han surnames.

In the second case, it is also possible that your ancestors are subordinates of the above three Manchu families, because the ancestors of the three Manchu families in Qingyuan with the surname Liu all served as officers in the Qing Dynasty. In ancient times, the superiors and subordinates of the army The relationship between the two is very close, and officers and subordinates often form relatives with the surname Yi, so maybe your ancestors formed a relationship with the surname Liu.

Since I haven’t seen your family tree, I can only make the above speculation.