Abstract: The offering captive ritual was an important part of the traditional military rituals, which referred to a ceremonial activity of presenting captives or their heads to the Imperial Ancestral Temple, Altar of Land and Grain or to the emperor, after an army triumph. In the early and middle period of the Qing Dynasty, the imperial government achieved great military accomplishments, the Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong emperors inherited the traditional system and continuously improved the offering captive ritual. They added this system into the Huidian and held the ritual many times. In 1828, after the suppression of the Jihangir rebellion, the Emperor Daoguang held the offering and receiving captive ritual for the last time in the Qing Dynasty. The offering and receiving captive ritual, which had the function of publicizing national prestige and deterring vassal states. It not only embodied the inheritance of the traditional Chinese ritual system by the Qing Dynasty and the political implication of the dynasty’s legitimacy, but also witnessed the brilliance and hardship of the emperors in practicing the cause of the great unification to the border ethnic groups.