No whereabouts, disappeared.
After the founding of the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shihuang designated He's jade as the national seal and ordered Prime Minister Li Si to carve on the jade: If you are ordered by heaven, you will live forever.
I hope to pass it on from generation to generation, but I didn’t expect that the country would perish in the hands of Qin II. After Liu Bang entered Xianyang. Ziying presented He's Bi to Liu Bang. In the late Western Han Dynasty, his relative Wang Mang usurped the throne. The emperor Liu Ying was only two years old at the time, and it was said that the imperial seal was managed by the Empress Dowager Xiaoyuan of Han Dynasty.
According to the "Han Shu·Yuan Hou Biography", when Wang Mang asked his younger brother Wang Shun to ask for the Han Xiaoyuan Queen Mother, the Han Xiaoyuan Queen Mother cursed, saying that the Han Xiaoyuan Queen Mother angrily handed over the imperial seal. It fell to the ground, and one corner of the national treasure was missing.
Although it was later repaired with gold, it has left flaws since then. It is said that the imperial seal disappeared again at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, the political situation was in turmoil. The young emperor of the Han Dynasty fled overnight and left the Chuanguo Seal in the palace. When he came back, the Chuanguo Seal had disappeared.
Not long ago, Sun Jian, the governor of Changsha, was attacking Dong Zhuo. This imperial seal was found among the officials in the south of Luoyang City.
From then on until the Tang Dynasty, with the political turmoil and the migration of ethnic minorities southward, the national seal continued to change owners. After Li Yuan, Emperor Gaozu of the Tang Dynasty, received the imperial seal, he renamed it Bao.
It is said that the national seal finally disappeared in history in the Five Dynasties. Since the time of Emperor Taizu of the Song Dynasty, no one has ever seen this jade seal engraved with the following inscription: "Ordered by Heaven, both longevity and longevity".
Extended information:
The "Jade Seal of the Chuanguo" is made of "He's Bi". In the Spring and Autumn Period, Bian He, a native of Chu, got a piece of rough jade in the mountains and presented it to King Li. The King of Chu asked a jade worker to identify it, and the jade worker identified it as a stone. The King of Chu had Bian and his left foot amputated for deceiving the king.
Later, when King Wu came to the throne, Bian He offered jade again, but still had his right foot amputated for the crime of deceiving the king. In 690 BC, King Wen came to the throne, and Bian He held the jade in his arms and cried bitterly. King Wen sent someone to ask him, and he said: "I am not grieving for the beheading. I grieve for my husband's precious jade and call it a stone, and for a virtuous man to call it a lie." It is a precious jade, so it is called He's Jade. During the reign of King Wei of Chu, Xiangguo Zhaoyang was successful in destroying Yue, and King Wei rewarded him with He's Bi.
But soon Zhaoyang lost it. Some people suspected that his protégé Zhang Yi had stolen it, and Zhang Yi was detained for interrogation. Zhang Yi was so angry that he left Chu and entered Wei. Later he came to Qin and was later worshiped as the Prime Minister of Qin
During the Warring States Period, King Zhao Huiwen got the Heshi Bi from the eunuch Yingxian. After learning about it, King Zhao of Qin planned to He took it by force, but later Lin Xiangru argued hard and returned the Heshi Bi to Zhao intact. In the 19th year of the Qin Dynasty (228 BC), King Qin Yingzheng defeated Zhao and obtained He's Bi.
Ying Zheng unified the world and was called the First Emperor. Li Si's seal script was written with eight characters: "If you are ordered by heaven, you will live forever". Sun Shou, a jade worker in Xianyang, polished He's jade and carved it into a seal, which was the national seal.
In the twenty-eighth year of the Qin Dynasty (219 BC), Qin Shihuang passed the mouth of Dongting Lake. At this time, the wind and waves suddenly rose, and the dragon boat was about to topple, so the first emperor threw the seal into the lake and prayed to God to calm the waves. , Chuan Guoxi disappeared for the first time.
Eight years later, someone in Pingshu Road, Huayin presented this imperial seal again. From then on, the jade seal passed down the country changed hands with the country no less than ten times, experiencing ups and downs and displacement, and finally disappeared in the long river of history.
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