Heshi Bi has many stories and legends as a famous treasure in Chinese history. The first thing to bear is the origin of its name. Here is a person's name that must be mentioned. This person is Bianhe .
Bian He was a jade carving expert in the Warring States Period Chu State . He accidentally got a piece of uncensored jade in Jingshan and presented it to the King of Chu. But the two Chu kings thought it was just an ordinary stone, and they cut off Bian He's legs. It was not until the time of King Wen of Chu that Baoyu was able to appear in his true form and called him the Heshi Bi.
Later, Heshi Bi came to Zhao State , but when King Zhao of Qin heard about it, he said he was willing to exchange it with fifteen cities. Later, the famous allusion "Returning the Jade to Zhao".
but later, Qin unified the six kingdoms, and the Heshi Bi finally fell into Qin Shihuang's pocket. Qin Shihuang engraved the Heshi Bi on the Heshi Bi, the jade seal of the imperial seal, which symbolized the supreme imperial power.
Later, the circulation of the imperial seal was also quite legendary, leaving behind many legends.
Episode 0, after Qin Shihuang's death, the eunuch Zhao Gaoli wanted to use the Heshi Bi to usurp power but failed. In the winter of 207 BC, Liu Bang's army attacked Xianyang. The Qin King Ziying was wearing a white horse. He led his ministers to surrender at Jidao Pavilion thirteen miles east of Xianyang and presented the imperial seal. Liu Bang wore this treasure with him and changed his name to: Han Dynasty National Seal .
Highest Han Dynasty, Wang Mang usurped power. At that time, because the young emperor Liu Ying was young, the imperial seal was managed by Empress Dowager Xiaoyuan Wang Zhengjun . Wang Mang asked his younger brother to Changle Palace to ask for it. Wang Zhengjun angrily threw the imperial seal to the ground and cursed: "If you get this national seal, it depends on what good fate will your brother have!" As a result, the imperial seal was thrown into pieces. Even if Wang Mang later used gold to inlay it, it would be useless, and the gap was still left.
Eastern Han Dynasty After the restoration of the liberation, the imperial seal was returned to Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu , and it was passed down until the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the eunuch Zhang asked and Duan Gui to cause chaos. Emperor Shao of Han went out of the North Palace at night and separated from the person holding the seal. After Zhang Rang and Duan Gui were killed, the young emperor returned to the palace, and the other national jades were there, but the only one lost the national jade seal.
Soon after, "Eighteen princes to attack Dong Zhuo ", Changsha prefect Sun Jian attacked Luoyang , retrieved the body of a palace maid from Zhengongjing Well in the south of the city, and took out a Jade Seal from the vermilion box in the brocade under his neck. He saw that it was four inches in a circle, carrying five dragons on the top, and a corner was missing, and there was a seal text underneath: "I will be ordered by heaven, and I will live forever." Sun Jian knew that this thing was the Jade Seal of the Kingdom, and had a strange thought, and hid it secretly at his wife Wu's place. However, this Jade Seal of the Kingdom did not bring good luck to Sun Jian, and soon he died in Xianshan. Yuan Shu Taking advantage of Sun Jian’s wife’s return home, he sent troops to cut off the jade seal halfway. After Yuan Shu's death, his wife ran to Lujiang with a coffin, and was snatched away by the imperial seal by Cao Cao and presented it to him. At that time, Cao Cao ordered the princes to hijack the Han Emperor Xian, but he did not dare to have any delusions about the imperial seal, so he still offered it to Emperor Xian of Han.
After the unification of the Three Kingdoms, the imperial seal was owned by Sima Yan and became the treasure of the Jin Dynasty. In the fifth year of Yongjia (311 AD), former Zhao Liu Cong invaded Luoyang, captured Emperor Huai of Jin and obtained the imperial seal. However, as a ruler of the ethnic minority, he did not understand the meaning of the imperial seal, so he brought Emperor Huai of Jin and the imperial seal to Pingyang. After Liu Cong's death, the general Jin Zhun made a rebellion and wanted to hand over the jade seal back to the Eastern Jin , saying: "Since ancient times, no one has been the emperor. Now he will pay the imperial seal to you, and he will be like the Jin family." Soon Jin Zhun was killed and the imperial seal was returned to the imperial seal.
In 328 AD, Shi Le defeated Liu Yao and obtained the imperial seal. On one side of the seal, the four-character inscription "Shi Shi" was engraved. Later, in the civil strife in the Later Zhao Dynasty, General Ran Min seized the jade seal and passed it on to his son Ran Zhi .
In 352 AD, Murrong Jun captured Yecheng of Ranwei , claiming that Min's wife had presented the imperial seal, named him "Fengxijun", changed the year name to "Yuanxi", and founded the country's great Yan (i.e., Fore Yan ). In fact, Dai Shi, the prefect of Puyang in Jin, tricked the jade seal from Jiang Gan, the general of Ran Wei, in the name of sending troops to rescue, and handed it to General Anxi of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xie Shang, and sent it to General 1 of Jiankang, , Nanjing. It was the eighth year of Yonghe of Emperor Mu of the Eastern Jin Dynasty (352 AD). At this time, the imperial jade seal returned to Jin in the 42nd year of the throne. Since the Jin Yuan Emperor traveled eastward, the Jin emperors of all dynasties did not pass on the jade seal, and were ridiculed by the northern regime and said, "The Sima family is the white-pan emperor." Even so. "At this point, people regarded the Eastern Jin Dynasty as orthodox.
In 420 AD, Emperor Gong of Jin abdicated in Liu Yu , and the jade seal was included in the Liu Song Dynasty. Later, he lived in Qi and Liang, and by the time of Emperor Jianwen of Liang, Hou Jing rebelled and seized the jade seal. Later, Hou Jing was defeated, and his subordinate Hou Zijian fled with the jade seal. Because he was afraid that the pursuers would catch up, he threw the jade seal into the well of Qixia Temple in Jiankang, which was obtained by Master Yongxing in the temple. Chen Chao in the second year of Yongding (55 AD In 8 years), the imperial seal was presented to Emperor Wu of Chen.
After the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, the imperial seal was born to Emperor Wen of Sui Yang Jian. At the end of the Sui Dynasty, Emperor Yang of Sui , carried the imperial seal south to Yangzhou , and was killed by Yu Wen and in Jiangdu. Later, Yu Wen and his army were defeated. Empress Xiao and the emperor Sun Zhengdao fled to Mobei Turks with the imperial seal.
The fourth year of Zhenguan (630 AD), Li Jing led his army to attack the Turks. In the same year, Empress Xiao and Emperor Zhengdao returned to the Central Plains and passed on the imperial jade seal to the Li Tang Dynasty. The imperial jade seal was passed on for more than 270 years to Zhaozong. In the fourth year of Tianyou in the Tang Dynasty (907 AD), Zhu Quanzhong abolished Emperor Ai of Tang Dynasty, seized the imperial jade seal, and established Houliang . Sixteen years later, Li Cunxu destroyed the Houliang, built Houtang , and passed on the imperial jade seal to the Later Tang Dynasty. Thirteen years later, Shi Jingtang led Qidan to the Qidan. The army arrived in Luoyang, and the deposed emperor of the Later Tang Dynasty, Li Congke , Li Congke , Empress Dowager Cao and Empress Liu, took the imperial seal to the Xuanwu Tower. When Shi Jingtang was trapped in Luoyang, Li Congke burned himself and the imperial seal disappeared. At this point, the imperial seal was passed down to the end of the Tang Dynasty, which cost more than 1,600 years.
Later generations of emperors searched all over the world but were not found. At this point, the imperial seal, which symbolized the supreme imperial power, disappeared in the long river of history.
