The Eight Banners of the Qing Dynasty had average fighting capacity, and they were well treated for their contribution to the establishment of the Qing Dynasty. The Eight Banners system ran through the Qing Dynasty and lasted for more than 300 years. At that time, the Qing Dynasty launched a bloody battle with the Eight Banners in Shanhaiguan and Li Zicheng, which laid the foundation for future rule and defeated the most powerful enemy of the Qing Dynasty. After the establishment of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners also gave high and generous treatment. At the beginning of the establishment of the Eight Banners, only the Eight Banners were full. These Manchu people themselves have a high status in society, and they can live a rich life without hard work.

With the improvement of various military systems in the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, the so-called green camp, was also established in the Qing Dynasty. Both the Eight Banners of Han nationality and the Eight Banners of Manchu belong to the army within the Eight Banners system, but they do not enjoy the same treatment. In the final analysis, the Qing dynasty still regarded Manchu as one of its own, and rejected Han Chinese in its heart. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners were veterans who had been baptized by war. This is a strong fighting force. Living in peacetime for too long, they have forgotten the baptism of war in those years. The descendants of these battle-hardened veterans have already laid down their swords and guns.

As time goes on, the fighting capacity of the Eight Banners is getting weaker and weaker. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the Eight Banners had no fighting capacity. The Taibing Uprising and the Boxer Rebellion were put out by Zeng Guofan's Xiang Army and the left Huai Army, and the Eight Banners didn't play any role. Western powers set off a frenzy to carve up modern China, and the Qing government was unable to support the generous treatment of the Eight Banners soldiers, who were completely different from an army at that time.

The Qing government refused to pay the soldiers, so they had to find their own way. Some do business, some do short-term work, and some go home to farm. When the war came, these people had already lost their ambition to defend their country and the Eight Banners were on the decline.