Qin Shi Huang unified the world, and since then the land of Huaxia has entered the feudal dynasty. In such a situation, feudal dynasties appeared in history. It is undeniable that Qin Shi Huang unified the world and became the first emperor in history, which also marked the entry of the Land of China into the period of feudal dynasties. After the emergence of the feudal dynasty, it has been influencing for more than two thousand years.
After the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, until the fall of the Qing Dynasty, the feudal dynasty existed for more than two thousand years. Under such circumstances, more than four hundred emperors appeared in the feudal dynasty, and it is worth mentioning that most of these emperors were unknown. After entering the feudal dynasty, the ancient emperor became the symbol of the son of heaven.
In feudal society, the emphasis was on the divine right of the monarch, that is, the emperor was called the Son of Heaven. It means that he was sent by God and is God's representative on earth. Today, these are nonsense. In ancient times, the monarchy was emphasized, so it will certainly be reflected in other aspects, and the representative of this is the national jade seal.
After Qin Shi Huang established the Qin Dynasty, he used heshi bi to create a national jade seal, which reads eight characters: "Ordained by heaven, shou yongchang." As a result, the Chuanguo Jade Seal officially appeared in history. After the appearance of the Chuanguo Jade Seal, the emperors of successive dynasties had to have the Chuanguo Jade Seal to be regarded as the Son of Heaven, and since ancient times, there have been "since the Qin, it is said that they were ordered to seal." When he obtained his seal, he was said to have really received the sign of being ordained; there was no seal, and even the name was 'whiteboard heavenly son'.
According to this interpretation, the emperor who did not pass on the national jade seal was called the "WhiteBoard Heavenly Son". Secondly, there is also the saying that "the people of the world think that the unity of the emperor does not lie in the Tao but in the seal, and that the gain or loss of the seal is the absolute continuation of the mandate of heaven, or the chronology, or the false name", according to this statement, the jade seal of the country symbolizes the meaning of orthodoxy, and the emperor has him is where the orthodoxy is, that is, the destiny of heaven.
Whoever owns the Imperial Jade Seal represents orthodoxy. For example, after the fall of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Sima family was not exterminated, and Sima Rui ran to the south with the Sima family, that is, in the south, Sima Rui established the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Because there was no Qin Dynasty's heirloom jade seal, the world at that time ridiculed the Eastern Jin Emperor as a whiteboard tianzi.
From the beginning of the Qin Dynasty, the Chuanguo Jade Seal appeared, and in this case, it continued until the Song Dynasty, and the Chuanguo Jade Seal was an orthodox representative. In the fifth year of Song Zhezong Shaosheng, a common man in Xianyang found a jade seal and handed it to the imperial court. At this time, Song Zhezong summoned the Hanlin Temple, the Imperial History Platform, and the Ministry of Rites to consult, so people thought that this was the jade seal of the country.
Later, Emperor Zhezong of Song "chose the day to receive it" and changed his era name to Yuan Fu. After the Song Dynasty, the emperor's pursuit of the Chuanguo Jade Seal was not very concerned, first of all, the Chuanguo Jade Seal had disappeared many times in history, and in such a situation, even the Song Dynasty's Chuanguo Jade Seal could not guarantee that it was handed down from the Qin Dynasty. Since the Song Dynasty, science and technology have been advancing.
Since the Song Dynasty, with the progress of science, such as astronomical calendar, arithmetic, geoscience, agriculture, etc. have been greatly improved, and during this period, these disciplines have been developed. After the Song Dynasty, it was divided from it, which was equivalent to the separation of science and superstition. You know, before there is a separation of families, these belong to the five elements.
For example, when Ouyang Xiu of the Song Dynasty wrote the History of the New Five Dynasties, unlike the previous dynasties, in the History of the New Five Dynasties, the Five Elements Chronicle was not followed, and it was replaced by the Si Tian kao. Emperor Zhezong of Song discovered the Chuanguo Jade Seal and thought it was a change of yuan, but the Northern Song Dynasty scholars did not think so. The scholar did not believe this.
Li Xinchuan and Zhao Yanwei and others believed that the true and true Chuanguo Jade Seal had been destroyed as early as the Dong Zhuo Rebellion at the end of the Han Dynasty. After the Song Dynasty, the deification effect of the Qin Dynasty's national jade seal began to plummet, that is, it played a final residual heat in the early Yuan Dynasty. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, the emperor no longer attached importance to the jade seal of the country. It is worth mentioning that there is controversy about the materials used to make the Chuanguo Jade Seal. Some say that it was made by Heshi Bi, and another say that it was made by Lan Tian Yu.