The development history of the imperial seal-where did the emperor's "identity card" go?

In the west of Nanzhang County, Hubei Province, a beautiful Zhongling Mountain stands here.

It is a typical karst landform with steep mountains, valleys and criss-crossing ridges.

The name of this mountain is Jingshan.

Hubei is mountainous, Wudang Mountain, Dahongshan Mountain and Jiugong Mountain are all famous mountains in the world. But surrounded by mountains, the name of Jingshan is particularly eye-catching, because a stone was born here.

Some people may ask, what's strange about this? Isn't the mountain made of stone?

Of course, this stone is no ordinary stone. Its name is "Heshibi", and "Heshibi" is the predecessor of the national law.

The first person to get the "Choi of Harmony" was Bian He, a Chu in the Warring States Period.

When Bian Xiao saw this unusual stone, he immediately presented it to the then King Li of Chu.

But at that time, the appearance of "He Shi Bi" looked just an ordinary stone. Li, the king of Chu, is a layman. He picked up a stone and looked around. He didn't see anything strange.

He thought it was cheating and bullying me, a lonely old man. So he cut off Bian He's left foot.

King Chu died and Chu Wuwang became king. Bian He, whose left foot was cut off, persevered and limped to offer jade.

Chu Wuwang is more vulgar than Li, the king of Chu. After reading it for a while, he didn't see the doorway either. He thought, what, cheating once is not enough to come back for the second time? So he cut off Bian He's right foot.

Poor Bian He lost his feet and climbed out of the palace of the State of Chu.

Time flies, and the years flow. Chu Wuwang died and the king of Chu became king. Bian He finally waited for a professional jade expert.

King Wen of Chu heard that Bian He cried at the foot of Jingshan Mountain with jade in his arms for a day, and his tears dried up, and he was bleeding and tearful.

Chu Xiao, at first glance, must be a strange and unjust world. So he sent someone to ask Bian He, What's wrong with you? Why are you crying?

Bian He said such a sad sentence:

I cried not because I was so cruelly punished, but because there is no one in this world who really knows how to cherish.

King Chu Wen was stunned. He brought back the jade and smashed the stone outside, revealing a piece of jade that is crystal clear and unique in the world.

King Chu Wen was surprised again, but he also felt that the two official positions in front of him were not authentic. In order to comfort Bian He, King Wen of Chu chose the word "He" in Bian He's name and named this jade "He Bi".

Let us remember the name Bian He, and let us remember his indomitable courage.

He is an honest, frank and brave man.

He was a man who desperately pursued his inner truth at that time.

"He Shibi" became the heart of Chu State, and the whole Chu State regarded this jade as a treasure.

Baby, use it on the blade. Zhao and Chu are married. Chu was happy and impulsive, so he gave this piece of "Choi" to Zhao. Zhao is beautiful this time. If you have something to do, just show it off. This ostentation and extravagance attracted the attention of Qin, the big brother of the seven countries.

The Qin family is rich, indicating that I am willing to exchange fifteen cities for "Harmony". Hearing this, Zhao arranged for people to take "Choi" and set off. The man who was sent to Qin was an ordinary man at that time, but before long, he will become a famous figure in the world. This man's name is Lin Xiangru.

When Lin Xiangru arrived in the State of Qin, he found that the king of Qin was shameless. At the beginning, he promised to pay for the city and jade. When he arrived in Qin, he changed his mind. He doesn't want to give up the city, but he also wants to seize "He Shibi".

Lin Xiangru said: Don't move. If anyone moves, I'll smash the jade on the pillar first and then bump my head into the hall.

The state of Qin is unintelligent, and so is the king of Qin. Lin Xiangru walked out of the State of Qin with a piece of "He Shen jade", and the story of "returning to Zhao in perfect condition" spread.

Ying Zheng, king of Qin, said: Zhao, wait for me, this matter is not over yet!

Soon after, Qin launched a war, and the six brothers in the Warring States were beaten to the ground in turn. Zhao was not spared, the country was ruined, and the "jade of harmony" finally fell into the hands of Ying Zheng.

Qin swept Liuhe and Eight Wastes, unified China, and Ying Zheng became Qin Shihuang. He asked Prime Minister Reese to carve the "Jade of Harmony" into a jade seal, and asked the famous sculptor at that time to carve the eight characters of "Being ordered by heaven and living forever" at the bottom of the jade seal-"Jade of Harmony" disappeared, and the "Imperial Seal of the Kingdom" officially appeared.

The meaning of "being ordered by heaven to live forever" is translated as follows: since God made Lao Zi emperor, I should let the people live a good life and make the country prosperous.

Since then, the national will has become a special token of the orthodox emperor in the history of China. On the other hand, it is illegal for anyone to become an emperor without passing the imperial seal.

Maybe it was intentional, maybe it was unintentional. The first decree of the country has explained a profound and simple truth: those who are not kind to the Lebanese people and make the country decline are not worthy to be emperors.

Qin Shihuang likes traveling. He just runs around all day. He used to go boating in Dongting Lake. Before he started to ride the wind and waves, a strong wind came and he was about to capsize the boat.

Dongting Lake is as deep as thousands of feet, and Qin Shihuang didn't want to drink enough water. He took out the jade seal he carried with him and threw it into the lake, hoping that Poseidon, the river god, the lake god and other gods would spare his life.

From this move of Qin Shihuang, it can be seen that Qin Shihuang, who made and developed the national seal, probably didn't take this thing as anything important. Later emperors snapped it up because it was a "limited edition of Qin Shihuang Edition", which could not be met.

The country's imperial seal fell into Dongting Lake and remained silent for eight years. Eight years later, someone fished it out of the lake and returned it to Qin Shihuang.

But obviously, the fate of Qin Shihuang and Qin Dynasty is not as long as the imperial edict.

At the end of Qin dynasty, the court was tyrannical and many heroes rebelled. Chen Sheng, Guangwu, Xiang Yu and Liu Bang hammered the Qin Dynasty, and the Qin Dynasty perished. The imperial seal of the country fell into the hands of Liu Bang, the final winner of the troubled times at the end of Qin Dynasty.

A strange thing happened. The records of the imperial seal in the Han Dynasty clearly read: The handwriting of the imperial seal is: "I am resigned by fate, healthy and long-lived."

Who changed the word? I don't know

How did you change this word? I don't know

Are there any mistakes in the history books? Sorry, that's what it says.

At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, Wang Mang, a consort, usurped power, trying to rub the Liu brothers on the ground, and then usurped Han independence.

If you want to be a new emperor, it is essential to pass on the imperial seal.

Wang Shun, Wang Mang's younger brother, ran to the palace without saying anything and grabbed it! At that time, the imperial seal was in the hands of the Queen Mother. When Wang saw you, it was embarrassing. Take it or leave it. The queen mother is also a grumpy woman. She picked up the decree and slammed it on the ground-it fell from a corner.

This made Wang Mang, who was in a hurry to get the imperial seal, feel very uncomfortable. He asked the craftsmen to mend it, and finally made up the missing angle with gold.

He must get the seal and repair it. Because there is no law, Wang Mang is equivalent to a person without an ID card, and it is inconvenient to do anything.

Follwed had the imperial seal and showed it to the ministers, which was convincing.

I was an honest emperor for several years. You can walk by the river all year round. Where can you find shoes that are not wet? Follwed a didn't pay attention to. He was ambushed by Wei Gongbin, who stood up and resisted. Follwed was careless and didn't flash. He was defeated and killed.

The jade seal was returned to Liu's family. The founding emperors Liu Xuan, Liu Pengzi and Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu successively became the masters of the imperial seal.

In a blink of an eye, at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, eunuchs were in chaos. General Blade couldn't take it anymore, so he let a bunch of eunuchs ride around his neck and shit. He killed the eunuch, and the Han court was in chaos. The eunuch also ran away, the emperor was lost, and the decree was gone.

Liu Xie, the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, became emperor, and Dong Zhuo, the immortal, began to make trouble again. Dong Zhuo is a deadly man. Heroes in the world must not let him take advantage of it. Governors arise and beg Dong. Sun Jian, the magistrate of Changsha (Sun Quan's father), went straight to Luoyang and found a place called Zhen Palace in the south of Luoyang. This place is unusual. Surrounded by colorful auspicious clouds. At first glance, it looks like a land of feng shui. Sun Jian led the search and found a well in Zhen Palace. A maid-in-waiting jumped into the well and drowned with a box tied around her neck. When I opened the box, I saw that it was just a national law.

Sun Jian got the treasure. He gave the decree to his wife, oh (not Wu Guotai, Wu Guotai is a fiction in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, which does not exist in real history), thinking it was foolproof. I didn't expect that Wu was taken away by Nanyang Yuan Shu two days ago, and by the way, the decree also reached Yuan Shu's hand.

Although the heroes at that time were divided and uncompromising, they all wanted to achieve their fame and fortune. But Han Ting still exists, and no one dares to take the lead and stand on his own feet. Unexpectedly, Lao Yuan got the imperial seal, and his IQ began to drop sharply. He thought, now I have the imperial seal, and the whole world has it. So he declared himself emperor and established the country.

Yuan Shu is not pleasing to the eye. This time, there is finally a reason to clean up Yuan Shu-the big fellow will not die. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, you are a traitor and traitor. Any traitor and traitor will be punished.

Everyone rushed in, and Yuan Shu was dead.

Who has the seal? , fell into the hands of a malicious person, this malicious person is not others, it was Cao Cao who held the emperor in Xuchang at that time to make the princes.

This is a Cao Cao, a left-handed emperor and a right-handed decree, which made the governors at that time obedient. Cao Cao was a kind man, but when he died, he was just a "Wang Wei". But when his son Cao Pi came to power, the situation was different.

Xelloss was abolished and replaced by Han, who became a great Wei.

He looked at the imperial seal left by his father, and the more he looked at it, the more he disliked it. What's wrong with it?

Cao Pi had a brainwave, and people carved a few words on the jade seal: David is the national seal of the Han Dynasty.

These words translate to mean: this imperial seal was awarded to Wei by a great man, and we didn't rob it.

Heaven has a good cycle, and heaven forgives people.

Wei scenery in two days, and let the Sima family tore down a tower, stole the base. The imperial seal belongs to the state of Jin again.

After the decree, it began its wandering years.

Everyone wants it because it is a symbol of supreme power.

Everyone wants to have him, because it seems that if you have him, you can have the whole world.

Please refer to the travel schedule of the following national laws and regulations:

Liu Cong, the fierce emperor of the former Zhao regime, gave the rulers a combination boxing and snatched the imperial seal from the emperor Sima Chi.

The emperor Schleswig of the post-Zhao regime unexpectedly kicked the former Zhao half to death. The jade seal is also owned by Schleswig. Schleswig is a man who dares to think and do. Before he saw it, Cao Pi of Wei carved it, and so did I. So he ordered people to engrave the four Chinese characters "stone of destiny" on the left side of the decree, which simply means that God made me emperor, and I was duty-bound and had no choice.

After the fall of Zhao, the regime rose, and the decree was cheated away by the generals of the Eastern Jin Dynasty without staying in hand for two days.

Four younger brothers in the Southern Dynasties, Song, Qi, Liang and Chen, successively opened the membership cards of the national seal. Unexpectedly, they were experience cards, which expired after playing for two days. Emperor Wendi of the Sui Dynasty unified China, and the imperial seal went to Da Sui.

The short-lived Sui Dynasty didn't wait for the inscription on the jade seal, so the state let Emperor Yangdi Yang Guang have a good time. After the collapse of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang Di got lunch, but Xiao Huanghou, the emperor's wife, fled into the vast desert with the imperial seal. A decree passed to the Huns.

In the early years of the prosperous Tang Dynasty, the head of Tang Yuan saved his life and passed it on to Li Shimin. At this time, the weather in Datang was good, and the country was peaceful and the people were safe. We need food, food and troops. Li Shimin said: I have everything now, except laws.

But the jade seal has fallen into the desert. Where can I find it? I can't help it Comrade Li Shimin creatively made a bunch of fake imperial seals himself, for fun, for comfort and for fun.

Li Shimin was relieved. Imperial edict or not, I am the emperor. It doesn't matter.

Li Shimin said: I, Li Shimin, will die. If I jump from here, I will not consider passing the decree.

But the emperor was in no hurry. Li Jing, a famous soldier in the Tang Dynasty, went to Xiongnu to welcome him back to Xiao Huanghou. He came back with a decree.

Li Shimin immediately said, It smells good.

Prosperity will come soon, and the last days will come soon.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the heroes joined forces again, and the general Zhu Quanzhong abolished Tang Aidi and set up a back beam, and the imperial seal was owned by the back beam.

The back beam was destroyed, the later Tang Dynasty was established, and the jade seal was owned by the later Tang Dynasty.

The later Tang dynasty didn't work for two years and was on the verge of bankruptcy. But Li Congke, the emperor of the later Tang Dynasty, was even more extreme. As soon as he saw that the country was finished, he packed his bags, took his relatives and set himself on fire in Xuanwu Building.

Fierce fire, burned out the will of the emperors, burned out the world of mortals, and lost the imperial seal by the way.

There's nothing I can do this time. Li Congke, who has no martial arts, also violated the rules of the game. They can't be emperors themselves, and they don't want to give the decree to the next one. The emperors in the late Jin Dynasty had no choice but to pay tribute to Li Shimin and build it themselves.

This led to the use of fake and shoddy fake jade seals from the late Jin Dynasty to the late Zhou Dynasty. Even after the establishment of the Song Dynasty, when Song Renzong became the emperor, he had to do it himself and took the fake jade seal as a national treasure.

This situation lasted until Song Zhezong's time, when a group of enthusiastic Chaoyang people found a jade seal in the farmland and handed it over to the country. Thirteen experts from the imperial court made a joint appraisal and finally came to the conclusion that it did not escape. This was the imperial edict made by Qin Shihuang at that time.

The minister was happy and the emperor was satisfied. But the people don't buy it at all. Everyone thought that this was a vigorous fake play staged by the imperial court in the Song Dynasty.

People have great doubts about the authenticity of this imperial seal.

I don't blame the people, because the imperial seal has been lost for many years. That thing is not marble. It is said that a truck will be transported away. Where is it so easy to find?

During the Northern Song Dynasty, there was a dispute between the ruling and opposition parties on the issue of seal transmission. At that time, the emperor Song Huizong couldn't stand the pressure of public opinion, so he simply made ten imperial seals in one breath.

At this time, the people came out again, and everyone laughed at Comrade Xiao Song for gilding the lily.

But they didn't know what the emperor meant-Song Huizong wanted to downplay the importance and uniqueness of the imperial seal in people's minds, and wanted to downplay it. Why not make more?

Speaking of "Shame on Jingkang", the imperial court in the Northern Song Dynasty was robbed by the army of the rulers, and both emperors Song Huizong and Song Qinzong were arrested, not to mention the imperial edict, and even the gold teeth of the old eunuch in the palace were robbed.

The jade seal disappeared from people's sight again.

Ethnic minorities don't recognize this thing. To them, the jade seal is just a beautiful stone. It may be put in a warehouse full of sundries, or it may be left on the side of the road.

Until Mongolian fighters flattened the Central Plains and established a powerful Dayuan dynasty. Mongolians don't care much about this thing, and whether they love it or not, we Mongolian nobles are still popular and drink spicy food.

The emperor didn't care, but Bo Yan, the prime minister at that time, was very concerned about it. He found that someone in the market openly peddled the long-lost imperial seal.

Is this law true or false? There is no record in history. But whether it is true or not, Bo Yan paid a lot of money for it.

Moreover, he not only bought this so-called "national seal", but also bought fake seals of various state regimes throughout the ages.

The purpose of buying is very simple, not for the emperor, because the emperor is not rare at all.

The emperor is not rare, and Bo Yan is not a collector, so why did Bo Yan buy it?

He broke and recast these jade seals, made them into exquisite small seals, and distributed them to the nobles and ministers of the Yuan Dynasty.

If the seal handed over by Bo Yan is fake, it is understandable, but if the seal handed over is true, then the seal passed down for thousands of years will be destroyed at this time.

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang "opened a bowl" and was king in a single row. Seeing that the situation was not good, Dayuan court packed up and fled Mobei. Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to send troops to the desert in northern Xinjiang and beat up the Mongols. One of the most important purposes is to see if they have passed the imperial edict, and then take it back to him.

As a result, the decree didn't come back, Emperor Chongzhen "ended in one rope", Daming perished and Qing Dynasty was established.

Ridan Khan, the Qing army's expedition to Mongolia. Have Mongols seen this? After the Ming dynasty bullying, you came again?

The Qing dynasty took a tough attitude and put the Mongolian forces on the ground, and it was necessary to spread the national purport when it opened its mouth. The Mongolian thought, why do you need these things? Me neither?

The Qing dynasty said: IP, IC, IQ card, tell me all the passwords!

The Mongols had no choice but to take out a decree from their pocket. The Qing army took a look, and it read "the seal of the emperor".

The Qing Dynasty said, "Little brother, are you kidding?"? This is your own seal of the Yuan Dynasty emperor, and I want Qin Shihuang's!

Mongolian: Who is Qin Shihuang?

Qing dynasty: ......

The clue about the imperial seal was cracked by the Mongolian army.

Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was an antique fan. Naturally, he refused to let go of such a popular thing as the decree. He looked at the seals of the Forbidden City one by one and found that they were all fakes. Later, he dredged the Yellow River and dug up another jade seal. After identification, he found that it was still a fake.

Once in the Qing dynasty, it can be said that "fake jade seals are flying all over the sky, and real jade seals have nowhere to hide."

Gan Long said: Hello? Is it 3 15? I want to fake it!

The laws of the kingdom have completely disappeared. Since then, since the founding of the Republic of China and even after the founding of New China, there has been no news of royal decrees.

After the Qing dynasty, there was no dynasty. No dynasty, no emperor. Without the emperor, the jade seal became a cultural relic.

It can no longer command the world as it used to. Even if it is found, it can only tell its past more than 2,000 years under the oblique light.

It comes from a famous family and is made by Meiyu. It is a unique product of feudal times. It follows the imperial power, but does not depend on it. Neither the death of the emperor nor the demise of the dynasty has changed its glory. How many people miss it, how many people can't forget it. How much history has been experienced. It represents the supreme world and the peak and assembly of power.

But on its body, there are countless lives falling and endless blood flowing. How many people have paid the price of their lives, and how many countries and regimes have fallen apart?

It is a "national decree" and the best testimony of a long history.

But it has long since disappeared, or been destroyed. As time goes by, everything will disappear in that endless time.