About the heirloom jade seal

PS: This chapter here is the first brain to make up for the jade seal of the country, not to make up the number of words, but to make up another chapter of independence, after all, this kind of jade seal of the country, is indeed a very important existence, especially the jade seal in the hands of Chen Xinyu, the record in history still has other uses, haha, here is a sale!

The "jade seal of the country" is based on the "He's Bi". In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu people Bian He got a piece of jade in the mountains and dedicated it to King Li. The king made the jade worker identify, and the cloud was also stone. The king was angry, and slashed Bian and his left foot for the crime of bullying the king. After King Wu ascended the throne, Bian He returned to offer jade, but still cut his right foot again for the crime of bullying the king. and King Wen ascended the throne, Bian and Baoyu sat and wept under Jing Mountain. King Wen sent someone to inquire and said: "I am not sad, I am not sad, I am sad and precious and the title is a stone, and the name of the chaste is a scholar." "King Wen made the good work dissected, and the fruit was treasured, because it was called He's bi. When the king was right, the more the Xiangguo Zhaoyang was destroyed, and the king gave it to him with this. Xuan Zhaoyang feasted the guests on the side of the water abyss, and some people shouted: "There are big fish in the abyss!" Everyone left the room to watch the abyss, and after returning to the banquet, he and Shibi disappeared.

At that time, it was suspected that it was stolen by the doorman Zhang Yi, so he was detained and tortured to no avail. Zhang Yi was humiliated by this, held a grudge, so in a fit of anger, left Chu into Wei, and then entered Qin, Qin Huiwen Queen Yuan ten years (315 years ago), worship as Qin Xiang, is to lobby the countries to unite Qin back Qi, return to Chu as an envoy, and disintegrate the Qi-Chu alliance. After detaining the king, Keyingdu, and taking all the land in Chu and Hanzhong, he finally had to avenge this. Later, this bi was obtained by Miao Xian, a eunuch of Zhao State, and was taken by King Zhao Huiwen as his own. King Qin Zhao heard it, "Suicide note King Zhao, willing to invite Yi Bi with fifteen cities", at that time, Qin was strong and Zhao was weak, and King Zhao was afraid of offering Bi and could not get his city, so he was in a dilemma. Lin Xiangru invited himself to Qin, and after offering the bi, he saw that the king of Qin had no intention of paying for the city, but fought for the court, and would rather die than disgrace the mission, and threatened to throw the bi, which finally caused the king of Qin to compromise and be able to "return to Zhao".

In the nineteenth year of the reign of King Qin (228 BC), Qin Po Zhao and his family were born. The world is unified, and Yingzheng is called the first emperor. Ordered Li Si seal book "ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang" eight characters, Xianyang jade worker Wang Sun Shou will be the and the family of the bi fine grinding, carved for the seal, the country jade seal is completed. It is rumored that in the twenty-eighth year of the reign of King Qin (219 BC), Qin Shi Huang crossed Dongting Lake by dragon boat, the wind and waves rose suddenly, and the dragon boat was about to capsize. The jade seal was thus lost. Eight years later, someone in Huayin Pingshu Dao presented this national seal. Naturally, it has changed hands with the country more than a dozen times, and has tasted the pain of ups and downs. In the winter of the first year of Qin Ziying (207 years ago), Pei Gong Liu Bangjun was on the throne, and the infant knelt and held the jade seal and dedicated it to the left of Xianyang Road, and Qin died. The seal of the country has to be returned to Liu Han. At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, a foreign relative, usurped power, and the widow was young, and the seal was hidden in the Empress Dowager of Changle Palace. Wang Mang sent his brother Wang Shun to ask for it, and the queen mother was angry and scolded him, and threw the seal on the ground, breaking a corner of it. Wang Mang ordered the craftsmen to make up for it with gold. and the reckless army was defeated and killed, and the captain of the Praetorian Guard was passed on to the national seal, which tended to be Wan, and was dedicated to the first emperor Liu Xuan. In the third year of the first emperor Liu Xuan (25 AD), the Red Eyebrow Army killed Liu Xuan and set up Liu Penzi. Later, Liu Penzi defeated Yiyang and handed over the national seal to Liu Xiu, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty.

By the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the eunuchs were autocratic. In the sixth year of Emperor Ling's reign, Yuan Shao entered the palace to kill the eunuchs, Duan Jue fled with the emperor, and the jade seal disappeared. When the emperor was presented, Dong Zhuo was in turmoil. Sun Jian led his army into Luoyang. On a certain day, the soldiers saw that there were colorful clouds in a well in the Zhen Palace in the south of the city, so they made people enter the well, and saw a small box tied around the neck of the palace maid who committed suicide by throwing herself into the well, and the jade seal of the country was hidden in the box. Sun Jianru obtained the treasure and hid it in his wife Wu's place. Later, Yuan Shu detained Wu and seized the seal. Yuan Shu died, Jingzhou assassin Xu Xuan brought the seal to Xuchang, when Cao Cao coerced the emperor and ordered the princes, so far, the seal of the country has to return to the Han family. In the first year of Emperor Yankang of the Han Dynasty (220 AD), Emperor Xian was forced to "let Chan", Cao Pi built Wei, and changed the Yuan to the beginning of Huang. It is to make people engrave the words "Great Wei by the Han Dynasty" on the shoulder of the national seal, in order to prove that it is not a "usurpation of the Han Dynasty", but it is really to cover it.

In the second year of Emperor Cao Huan Xianxi of Wei Yuan (265 AD), Sima Yan followed the same line, called Emperor Wu of Jin, changed the beginning of Yuan Taishi, and passed on the seal of the country to Jin. In the fifth year of Jin Yongjia (311 AD), the former Zhao Liu Cong captured Sima Chi, the Huai Emperor of the Jin Dynasty, and returned to the former Zhao. Nineteen years later, Hou Zhao Shi strangled the former Zhao and got the seal. More ingenious, on the right side of the engraved "Mandate of Heaven". Another 20 years, and then Ran Wei, after Ran Wei begged the Eastern Jin army to rescue, the seal of the country was deceived by the Jin generals, and sent to the capital Jiankang (now Nanjing) overnight with 300 fine horses, thus, the seal of the country was returned to the Jin Dynasty Sima bag. During the Southern Dynasties, the seal of the country went through four generations of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen. The Sui unified China and included the national seal in the Sui Palace. In March of the 14th year of the Great Cause (618 AD), Yang Guang, Emperor Yang of Sui, was killed in Jiangdu (now Yangzhou), and Sui died. Empress Xiao and Emperor Yang Zhengdao of the Sui Dynasty fled into the Mobei Turks with the seal of the country. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Taizong Li Shimin did not pass on the jade seal of the country, but engraved several jade "seals" such as "ordained treasure" and "destined treasure", and talked about **. In the fourth year of Zhenguan (630 AD), Li Jing led the army to crusade against the Turks, and in the same year, Empress Xiao and Emperor Yang of Sui returned to the Central Plains with Sun Yang Zhengdao, and the seal of the country was returned to Li Tang, and Taizong Longyan Dayue.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the heroes were everywhere. In the fourth year of Tang Tianyou (907 AD), Zhu Quanzhong abolished Emperor Tang Ai, seized the national seal, and built the Later Liang. Sixteen years later, Li Cunmian destroyed the Later Liang, built the Later Tang Dynasty, and passed on the national seal to the Later Tang Dynasty. Thirteen years later, Shi Jingjiao led the Khitan army to Luoyang, and the last emperor Li Congke took the national seal to the Xuanwu Tower**, and the national seal disappeared. When Guo Wei, Taizu of the Later Zhou Dynasty, he could not pass on the national seal, and he had no choice but to engrave the seal of the "Emperor's Divine Treasure" and other seals, which were passed on to the Northern Song Dynasty. During the time of Zhezong of the Northern Song Dynasty, a farmer named Duan Yi found the seal of the country when he was plowing the field and sent it to the imperial court. According to the records of the previous dynasty, thirteen scholars believed that it was the seal of the first emperor. However, people of insight in the government and the opposition are suspicious of its hypocrisy. To the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, Huizong was elegant, and engraved the seal in ten directions, and the people of the time had the ridicule of painting snakes and adding feet, in fact, Huizong seemed to have the deep meaning of diluting the status of the national seal. In the first year of Song Jingkang (1126 AD), the Jin soldiers broke Bianliang, the second emperor of Huiqin was plundered, and the "Seal of the Kingdom" was plundered by the Jin State, and then disappeared. In the thirty-first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1294 AD), the ancestor Kublai Khan collapsed. "The jade seal of the country" suddenly appeared in Dadu, sold in the market, and was purchased by the power minister Boyan. Boyan once smoothed out all the seals of the past dynasties confiscated by the Mengyuan and distributed them to the princes and ministers to engrave private seals. The jade seal of the country is also afraid of being in it and will suffer accidents. In the twenty-eighth year of Yuan Zhizheng (1368 AD), Zhu Yuanzhang was called the emperor in Jiankang, called Daming, and changed to Yuan Hongwu. Then the Northern Expedition, the Mongol Yuan Court abandoned the Central Plains and went to the north of the desert, and continued to gallop in the northern frontier.

At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Taizu sent Xu Da into Mobei to chase and fight the remnants of the Yuan forces that had fled far away, and its main purpose was to obtain the jade seal of the country, but in the end it was in vain. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, there was a clamor from time to time that the "jade seal of the country" appeared, but they were all attached to the fake and imitated. For example, when Ming Xiaozong was in power, someone once offered the so-called "heirloom jade seal", and Xiaozong decided that it was a fake and did not use it. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were nine out of 30 imperial seals in the Forbidden City, one of which was called the "jade seal of the country". During the Qianlong period, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty was quite good at researching and appointing it as a fake. But the right is to take the fake as the true, and the chat is full of numbers, and there is no one who investigates deeply. The Republic of China was established and the Qing court abdicated, but according to the preferential conditions, it was still entrenched in the Forbidden City and called it a lonely widow.

Until November of the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (AD 1924), the last emperor Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, and this "jade seal of the country" disappeared. At that time, Lu Zhonglin, the general of Fengbu, and others pursued this gold-inlaid jade seal, but there is still no follow-up. Therefore, after more than 2,000 years of ups and downs and confusion, the "jade seal of the country" has been hidden and disappeared in the long river of history. The emperor also faded out of Chinese history, and it didn't matter whether the "white version" was not a "white version". At this point, the jade seal disappeared from the world, and the imperial dynasty came to an end, pushing China into the new century.

The text of the seal of the country says "Ordered by the heavens and longevity Yongchang", and the text of the "Han book" says "The emperor Shouchang of Haotian". The two are different, and people today think that the first statement is the most correct. The heirloom seal obtained by Song Zhezong was suspected by some people at that time that it was a fake made by Zhang Dian and Cai Jing. In the Ming and Qing dynasties, fake seals also appeared from time to time. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, there were 39 imperial seals of various colors in the palace, one of which was considered to be the seal of the Qin system, in 1746 AD, it was confirmed that it was a fake engraved by Emperor Qianlong. In November 1924, when the last emperor Puyi was expelled from the palace, Zhang Bi, Lu Zhonglin and others were still pursuing the jade seal of the country. "History of Liao" is recorded as "the treasure of the Great Wei by the Han Dynasty", I thought it should be "the seal of the Great Wei by the Han Dynasty", and Tang Wu changed the "seal" to "treasure" in the sky, which should be changed in that era.

"History of Liao" notes: "Passing on the national treasure, made by Qin Shi Huang, with blue jade, claw button, six sides, its text "ordered by the sky, both longevity and Yongchang", fish and bird seals, children and babies above the Han ancestors. Wang Mang usurped the Han, Queen Ping cast the seal of the palace steps, and the horns were slightly defiled. Emperor Xian lost, Sun Jian was in the well, passed to Sun Quan, and returned to Wei. Emperor Wen of Wei carved his shoulders and said, "The Great Wei is the treasure of the Han Dynasty". Tang changed its name to "Ordered Treasure". Jin died and returned to Liao.

Since the Three Kingdoms, the puppet states have often simulated private systems, and the treasury of the past dynasties has been inconsistent, and it is impossible to distinguish the authenticity from the false. Ten years after the Holy Sect opened Thailand, he galloped to take the jade seal on the stone and Jin in Zhongjing. In the seventh year of Xingzong Chongxi, he tried to enter the scholar with "Those who have passed on the national treasure as the orthodox endowment". In the second year of Tianzuo Bao, he inherited the national seal in the Sanggan River. "History of the Song Dynasty" notes: "Treasure." In the Qin system, the Son of Heaven has six seals, and there are national seals, and the past dynasties have passed on them. Tang changed to treasure, and its system has eight. Five generations are chaotic, or many are lost. ”。 "Wei Benji" once recorded in a destroyed clay statue to get the jade seal two, the text of which said: "Ordered by the sky, both longevity and eternal prosperity". At its moment, it was said that "Wei received the seal of the Han Dynasty".

The origin of the material is a famous jade in history, and it has been regarded as a "priceless" treasure in the world for hundreds of years. In the Spring and Autumn Period, the Chu people Bian He was in Chu Mountain, and said that Jingshan (now Nanzhang County, Hubei) saw a phoenix perched on the bluestone slab in the mountain, according to the saying of "the phoenix does not fall into the land of no treasure", he believed that there was a treasure on the mountain, and after careful searching, he finally found a piece of jade in the mountain. Bian He dedicated this pu to King Chu Li.

However, after being identified by the jade workers, Pu was judged to be a stone, and King Li thought that Bian He was a bully, so he ordered Bian and his left foot to be cut off and expelled from the national capital. King Wu ascended the throne, Bian He offered the jade again, the jade worker still thought it was a stone, and poor Bian He was cut off his right foot for the crime of bullying the king. and King Wen of Chu ascended the throne, Bian He cried bitterly for three days and three nights under the Chu Mountain, so that his eyes were full of blood. King Wen was very strange and sent someone to ask him: "There are many people in the world who have been cut off, why are you the only one who is so sad?" Bian He sighed: "I am not sad because my feet have been cut, but because gems are regarded as stones, and loyal people are regarded as ministers who deceive the king, and I am sad that right and wrong are reversed!"

This time, King Wen directly ordered someone to dissect the pu, and as a result, he got a flawless piece of jade. In order to reward Bian He's loyalty, Meiyu was named "He's Bi", which is the legendary He's Bi in later generations. The king of Chu got this beautiful jade, and cherished it very much, and he was reluctant to carve it into a vessel, so he treasured it as a treasure. After more than 400 years, in order to commend the meritorious and loyal ministers, King Chuwei gave the Heshi Bi to Xiangguo Zhaoyang.

When Zhaoyang led the guests to visit the Red Mountain, the jade bi was out for people to watch, but after everyone dispersed, he disappeared. More than 50 years later, Miao Xian, a native of Zhao, bought a piece of jade at the market for 500 gold. Unexpectedly, after the identification of jade workers, this jade is the Heshi Bi that has been missing for many years. King Huiwen of Zhao heard that He's Bi appeared in Zhao State, so he took it for himself.

When King Qin Zhao learned of this, he sent a letter to King Zhao saying that he was willing to exchange the fifteen cities of Qin for jade. King Zhao was intimidated by the power of Qin and sent Lin Xiangru Fengbi as an envoy to Qin. The witty Lin Xiangru did not disgrace his mission, designed to retrieve the jade bi, and sent it back to Zhao Guo. In 228 BC, Qin destroyed Zhao, and He's Bi eventually fell into the hands of Qin, but unfortunately, He's Bi disappeared from historical records. Legend has it that after Qin Shi Huang unified the six kingdoms, he made the Heshi bi into a jade seal.