Since Qin Shi Huang, the special name of the emperor's seal is "seal", and because of the material for jade, it is called "jade seal", which has six parties, namely "Emperor's Seal", "Emperor's Seal", "Emperor's Seal", "Heavenly Son's Seal", "Heavenly Son's Seal", "Tianzi's Seal", in the emperor's seal, there is a jade seal that is not within these six parties, which is the "National Jade Seal".
The Chuanguo Jade Seal was made by Qin Shi Huang
The "Jade Seal of Chuanguo" is the seal of successive emperors after Qin, and it was engraved on the orders of Qin Shi. It is four inches in circumference, with five dragons on the upper button, and the front is engraved with the eight seal characters of Li Si's book "Ordained by Heaven, That Is, Shou Yongchang", as a relic of "imperial divine right, orthodox and legal".
After the death of the First Emperor, successive emperors took this seal as a symbol, and enshrined it as a rare treasure, and the heavy weapon of the country was also. Gaining it symbolizes its "command from heaven", and if it is lost, it shows that its "qi has been exhausted".
Qin Shi Huang
The origin of the material of the national jade seal
According to legend, the peerless jade and the clan bi were a piece of jade found by the Chu people Bian He in the Spring and Autumn Period in Chu Mountain.
Bian He offered it to King Li of Chu, but was judged to be a stone, and King Li thought that Bian He was a bully, and ordered Bian and his left foot to be cut off, and King Wu took the throne, and Bian He offered Pu Yu, which was still considered a stone, and poor Bian He was cut off his right foot for the crime of deceiving the king.
When King Wen of Chu ascended the throne, Bian he and Huai Puyu cried bitterly for three days and three nights under the Chu Mountain, and when King Wen heard about it, he directly ordered someone to dissect Pu, and the result was a flawless piece of jade, that is, "Heshi Zhibi".
Bian and the treasure offering
Later, he shibi went through several twists and turns, and finally fell into the hands of King Huiwen of Zhao, and after that, there was a story of the Qin state's self-brazen force trying to take the heshi bi by force, and Lin Xiang was like "Ning for jade crushing" and "returning to Zhao after finishing bi".
After Qin Shi Huang destroyed the Six Kingdoms, Heshi Bi eventually fell into the hands of the Qin State, and was finally made into a national jade seal, which became a common treasure in the world.
Lin Xiangruning is jade crushed
The National Jade Seal was lost in five generations
The Han, Wei, Western Jin, Former Zhao, Eastern Jin, Song, Southern Qi, Liang, Chen, Sui, Tang, Later Liang, and Later Tang dynasties after the Qin Dynasty all used the jade seal of Qin Shi Huang.
When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he asked the then empress dowager Wang Zhengjun for the imperial jade seal, and Wang Zhengjun was very angry, took out the jade seal and smashed it on the ground, and broke a corner for this, although the missing horn was later filled with gold, but the traces of the broken can still be seen.
Wang Zhengjun
Guangwu Zhongxing, "Mang defeated, Li Song held the seal and went up to the beginning", and the jade seal belonged to Liu Xiu. At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Ten Constant Attendants were in turmoil, and the Han Shao Emperor took refuge in the North Palace at night, and did not bring the National Seal in a hurry, and after returning to the palace, the National Seal was lost.
Soon, "the Eighteenth Road Princes beg Dong Zhuo", Changsha Taishou Sun Jian attacked Luoyang, fished out the corpses of the palace women from the Zhenguan Well in the south of the city, and took out the jade seal from the Jinxiang under the xia. Sun Jian received the National Seal and had a different heart, but soon died in Da Nang Mountain.
Sun Jian got the jade seal
Yuan Shu took Sun Jian's wife Wu Shifuzi Palace back to Li, "but lady Jian Jian took it". After Yuan Shu's death, his wife supported the coffin to run to Lujiang, and Guangling Taishou Xu Miao snatched the national seal according to Yuan Shu's precedent and dedicated it to Cao Cao. The Three Kingdoms were established, and the seal belonged to Wei. The Three Kingdoms returned to Jin, and the seal was passed on to Jin.
In the last years of the Western Jin Dynasty, the Five Hu and Sixteen Kingdoms changed frequently. The National Seal is like a prey chased by a hound, constantly fighting for it. Each alternating change of hands is accompanied by a bloody slaughter.
Emperor Yongjia of the Jin Dynasty was five years old, and the hand of "Liu Cong of Zhao before the fall of the seal". In the fourth year of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Shi Qin destroyed Former Zhao, and Xi belonged to Later Zhao. Ran Min killed Zhao Shijian and captured the Chuanguo Seal. After Shi Le obtained the seal, he was even more ingenious, and added "Heavenly Destiny Stone Clan" to the right side of the jade seal. Twenty years later, chuanguo seal was deceived by the Eastern Jin generals, and thus the chuanguo seal was returned to the Pocket of Sima Shi of the Jin Dynasty.
After the imperial seal returned to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, it passed through Liu Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, and Sui, and finally fell into the hands of Li Yuan, the Emperor Gaozu of Tang. Since then, the seal has been renamed "bao".
Li Yuan
From the discovery of heshi bi to the end of the Tang Dynasty, the chuanguo jade seal was passed down for more than 1620 years, and the historical relics that have been passed on by successive dynasties for more than 1,000 years are also rare in the history of the world. It is a pity that the Chuanguo Jade Seal suddenly disappeared in the fifth dynasty, and the Song Taizu "Chen Qiao Mutiny" was zen hou zhou, and only received the two treasure seals of the later zhou, and did not obtain the chuanguo jade seal.
Where is the Jade Seal of the Chuanguo Dynasty?
Because of the symbol of "destiny of heaven" represented by the Chuanguo Jade Seal, successive feudal rulers have vigorously proclaimed that they have obtained the Chuanguo Jade Seal. Therefore, in the Song, Yuan, Ming, and Qing dynasties, there were all true and false "national jade seals" that continued to appear and were repeatedly discovered.
Theory 1: In the third year of Song Shaosheng, Xianyang Duan Yi dug up the house in Henan Township and obtained a jade seal of "green as a blue, warm and lustrous", and "five plates of back whips". After the "examination" of thirteen officials such as Cai Jing, a scholar of Hanlin, Zhezong was called "the jade seal of the True Qin System".
Song Zhezong
Theory 2: In the thirteenth year of Ming Hongzhi's reign, Mao Zhixue of Exian County passed on the national jade seal on the banks of the Nihe River, and presented Emperor Xiaozong of Ming by Xiong Yuzhong, the inspector of Shaanxi. However, Emperor Xiaozong suspected that it was false and "did not use it".
The third theory: The Chuanguo Seal was brought into the desert by Emperor Yuanshun during the Ming Dynasty, and later by Jin Taizong in August of the previous year, "the Yuan Dynasty Passed on the National Jade Seal to the Yuan Dynasty Lin Dan Khan's Empress Sutai", and Taizong thus "decided on the plan to establish the country" and changed "Jin" to "Qing" state name. At the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the Forbidden City Jiaotai Hall hid 39 imperial seals, and one of the jade seals that was "ordained by heaven and lived forever" was called the Chuanguo Jade Seal. In 1746, when the Qianlong Emperor approved the 25 Square Treasure Seal from the middle, he excluded this Square Treasure Seal. It can be seen that this is a forgery fake.
Emperor Yuanshun
Where is the real Chuanguo Jade Seal? For thousands of years, the legend of the jade seal has been full of mystery, and even in November 1924, when the last emperor Puyi was expelled from the palace, police superintendents Zhang Bi and Lu Zhonglin were still pursuing this "gold-encrusted jade seal that has been passed down through the dynasties". Perhaps with the development of history, one day people will be able to solve the ancient mystery of the disappearance of the Chuanguo Jade Seal!