Preface to Jinpin Pawnshop

During the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a man named Bian He in the State of Chu. When he was chopping wood in Jingshan, he came across a piece of jade pu. He dedicated it to Li He, the king of Chu. Both of them were regarded as ordinary stones, framed as liars and had their feet cut off. When the King of Chu acceded to the throne, Bian He, who lost his feet, cried at the foot of Jingshan Mountain. King Wen of Chu made people cut and process the treasure jade, which was called "Harmony Wall" to commemorate and praise Bian He. This stone is placed in the dark and under natural light; Put it on the seat, it is warm in winter and can replace the stove; It's cool in summer, and mosquitoes and flies can't enter; It can also dispel dust and ward off evil spirits, and Chu has since been regarded as a national treasure.

The story of He Shibi can almost run through a history of the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. During the Warring States Period, Chu Xiang Zhaoyang accidentally lost this treasure at the banquet, suspected that Zhang Yi was stealing, and beat Zhang Yi half to death, so Zhang Yi entered Qin. In fact, Zhaoyang is really wronged by Zhang Yi.

Choi and this somehow flowed to Zhao, and then played the story of Lin Xiangru's return to Qin. By the time Qin Shihuang unified the six countries, "all over the world, is it the land of kings?" Rate of land, Murphy Wang Chen ",and choi, nature also belongs to the first qin shi huang.

Qin Shihuang had a jade bottle engraved with such a national purpose, hoping that it could be used as a voucher and a token handed down from generation to generation. The words "I am ordered by heaven to live forever" were also written by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Shihuang.

In 2 19 BC, Qin Shihuang traveled around the world and the ship arrived at Dongting Lake. Suddenly, there was a storm, and someone suggested throwing the treasure out of town, so they threw the jade seal into the lake. Oddly enough, Dongting Lake soon calmed down.

Eight years later, someone fished out this jade seal from the bottom of the lake. At that time, Qin Shihuang was hunting in Huayin. The man held a jade seal in the way and gave it back to Qin Shihuang, saying, "Give it back to the ancestors." (The emperor called it "the real dragon son of heaven", and Qin Shihuang was the first emperor in China history, so he was called "Zulong")

Although Qin Shihuang thought he was "destined to return", his country did not live forever. When the bones of the first emperor were not cold, Liu Bang marched into Xianyang, and Zi Ying, the last emperor of the Qin Dynasty, presented the imperial seal to Liu Bang. After the founding of the Han Dynasty, this jade seal was handed down from generation to generation and became evidence of the handover of the throne.

When Wang Mang usurped the Han Dynasty, he ordered Wang Shun, the minister, to ask the Queen Mother (Wang Mang's daughter) for the imperial seal. As the Empress Dowager of the Han Dynasty, Wang Mang's daughter devoted herself to the Han Dynasty, but she was forced to do so. In a rage, she threw the jade seal to the ground. From then on, the jade seal was missing a corner, so Wang Mang had to have it inlaid with gold. Liu Xiu, Guangwu Emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty, defeated Wang Mang and regained the imperial seal, which became a symbol of the Han family.

When Han Xian emperor, Dong Zhuo praised the emperor as a vassal. The vassals united against Dong Zhuo. After fierce fighting, Dong Zhuo was defeated, and Dong Zhuo moved to Chang 'an with Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty. When he left, he burned the palace and dug the grave.

Sun Jian, the pioneer of the allied forces, took the lead in rushing into Luoyang to put out the fire in the palace and set up a military account on Zhang Jiantang. His sergeant picked up a female corpse in a well in the south of the temple, with a secret bag hanging on it, which contained a scarlet box, which was locked with a gold lock. He opened the box and found a jade seal (the emperor's seal), four inches square, engraved with five dragons and five buttons, and engraved with the words "eight characters of seal script", which read: "I am destined by God, so I can live forever."

Cheng Pu told Sun Jian that this is a national law, and the winner has the "Ninth Five-Year Plan" (the luck of being an emperor). Sun Jian was famous for his loyalty and bravery in the allied forces, but when he saw this artifact of the Han Dynasty, he couldn't help but be moved by it, so he returned to Jiangdong for illness in an attempt to achieve other great things.

The leader of the League, Yuan Shao, learned of this and asked Sun Jian to hand over the decree. Sun Jian denied that the two men almost used force, and the Allies split from then on. After Yuan Shaosuo refused, he informed Liu Biao of Jingzhou that he would stop Sun Jian halfway and snatch the imperial seal, so he launched a "treasure war".

Sun Jian didn't rob Yuan Shao and Liu Biao after he got the decree. But after Sun Jian's death, according to the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, his son Sun Ce, a bully, gave the decree to Yuan Shu in order to borrow soldiers from Yuan Shu. The Book of Wu records that Yuan Shu took Sun Jian's wife Wu as a hostage and seized the imperial seal.

It is also tit for tat. After Yuan Shu's death, Xu Qiong, the magistrate of Guangling, also took the imperial seal from his wife and presented it to Cao Cao. Cao Pi abandoned Han to stand on his own feet, took the imperial seal from Emperor Xian of Han Dynasty, and skillfully carved a small line on the side of the imperial seal: "The Imperial Seal of Han Dynasty in Wei Shou".

Only 45 years later, this decree reached Sima Yan again. It is not engraved with the words "Jin Shouwei Seal". If they were all carved like Xelloss, then the emperors who later seized the throne probably had no place to carve them. But later emperors, regardless of whether there was a place for them to engrave this imperial seal to commemorate the country that plundered others, had to engrave another imperial seal, because this engraved imperial seal was lost!

This imperial seal spread from Wei to the Western Jin Dynasty, passed through the former Zhao and the latter Zhao, and fell into the hands of the former Zhao Jian. After Fu Jian was captured by his ministry Yao Chang, Yao asked him to hand over the imperial seal, and Fu Jian said that it had been given to the Eastern Jin Dynasty. As an enemy, Fu Jian has no reason to return the imperial seal to the Eastern Jin Dynasty, whose strength is far weaker than that of the former Qin Dynasty. In fact, at this time, the jade seal has disappeared. Because the northern part of China was controlled by the minority regime during this period, we have reason to believe that this imperial seal was lost by the descendants of a minority tribe.

Yao Chang wanted to be emperor himself, but he felt that he couldn't pass the decree. So when he established the State of Qin, he forged a "jade seal". His actions inspired all friends who wanted to be emperors. At the same time, Mu Rongchui of Houyan also made one. The Sima family in the Eastern Jin Dynasty once claimed to be orthodox. Seeing this situation, they quickly forged one, but they carved the text wrong and turned it into "Long life, God Emperor". They also invented a story by the way, saying that this false imperial edict was sent by Jiang Gan of Ran Min Department.

At the end of Qin Dynasty, the "Jade Seal" was brought back to Jiankang (now Nanjing) after Emperor Wudi destroyed Qin. When the Eastern Jin Dynasty knew it was fake, it went out. Eastern Jin Dynasty, and later flowed into Northern Qi Dynasty. Because the one of Houyan fell into the Northern Zhou Dynasty after the national subjugation, and after the Northern Zhou Dynasty destroyed the Northern Qi Dynasty, it destroyed the fake decree of the "Emperor Shou Chang" in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Therefore, these three fake seals are just the one that Mu Rongchui made at the beginning, and even if they are fake now, they are true.

This imperial seal went through Song, Qi, Liang, Chen, Northern Zhou and Sui Dynasties. In March of 6 18, Emperor Yang Guang of Yang Di was killed in Jiangdu, Yangzhou, and died in the Sui Dynasty. After Xiao, Prince Yuan De took the decree and fled to Mobei Turk. In the fourth year of Tang Zhenguan, Li Jing led an army to crusade against the Turks. In the same year, Hou Yaozong and Prince Yuan De returned to the Central Plains, and the decree was handed over to Li Tang.

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the world was in chaos. In 907 AD, the imperial seal of Emperor Ai was abolished and the back beam was built. In 923, Li destroyed the back beam, built the later Tang Dynasty, and passed the imperial seal to the later Tang Dynasty.

The last emperor to master the imperial edict was Li Congke, the emperor of the Five Dynasties and the end of the Tang Dynasty. In 936 AD, Shi Jingtang of the late Jin Dynasty captured Luoyang. He set himself on fire in the palace, and everything in the imperial court was thrown into the fire at the same time. Since then, the imperial edict has mysteriously disappeared and disappeared.

After the founding of Zhao Kuangyin in the Northern Song Dynasty, there was no record of passing the seal. In the future, every emperor has his own seal, and there is more than one, but there is no national decree.

Although many later dynasties claimed to have found the country's imperial seal, they were all fabricated to prove that they were "ordered by heaven."

In fact, Jiangshan does not depend on the decree to decide whether it is "immortal". History has proved this. Those who make the seal die in the afterlife, and those who get the seal will never die. Moreover, since we overthrew other people's regimes, it is absurd to accept other people's decrees.

We in China have been entangled in the dispute between orthodoxy and unorthodox, so we are superstitious about these myths that spread the imperial seal. In fact, orthodoxy is the most difficult to grasp. After that, the national decree became three. Which do you think is orthodox?

For thousands of years, people have never given up looking for the whereabouts of the jade seal, but it has disappeared like a stone, and the whereabouts of the jade seal has become a historical mystery that has long plagued people.