Before the Qin Dynasty, the national seal was made of square inch gold and silver. The priceless Heshibi in the "Return to Zhao" was later obtained by Qin Shihuang, which was used to make the imperial seal and became the national treasure of Qin to Jin. After the Jin Dynasty, this treasure was lost, but emperors of past dynasties still used other imperial seals instead of
the imperial seal that passed the country
. However, Li Si wrote in his book "Exhortation and Expelling Guests":
"Today, your majesty sent a jade to Kunshan, which has a treasure of harmony and harmony, hangs the pearl of the bright moon, takes the sword of Tai 'a, rides a horse that is separated from the fiber, and builds a flag of emerald phoenix and trees. Qin is not born with a few treasures, but your majesty says, why? "
Among them, Suizhu is a pearl with an absurd and wonderful legend. And, that is, He Shibi, Zhang Shoujie's "Justice in Historical Records" says: "Bian He Shibi, the first emperor thought it was also a national seal."
The Justice of Historical Records quotes Cai Yong's note: "The seal is also sealed, and the son of heaven seals the white jade to kill the tiger. The ancients were condescending. " He also quoted Wei Hong's "Han Jiu Yi" as an annotation, saying that before the Qin Dynasty, people used gold, silver and jade articles to make seals, and they could design their shapes according to their own preferences, especially the hand-held parts could even be "dragon and tiger buttons", which they called "seals"; However, since the establishment of the Qin Dynasty, only the emperor has used the term "seal", and only the emperor's seal can be made of jade, and the courtiers dare not use these words and objects dedicated to the emperor. Zhang Shoujie also quoted Ho Choi's opinion: "Li Si Mo and Bi made it, and the emperors of the Han Dynasty handed it over to him, which is called' passing the national seal'." "Taiping Guangji Volume 26 Shuyi Lisi" also says:
At the beginning, the emperor cut the wall of He's family into a seal, which made Si write his article (and noted that this article was published in Book Review and from Shuduan).
thus, he shibi finally became the "official seal" of the Qin dynasty. According to legend, Li Si also carved a few words on the "Chuan Guo Xi"-a small seal of the Qin Dynasty. What exactly are these words? Actually, there are several statements: one is that Wei Yao's Book of Wu (quoted by Pei Songzhi in The History of the Three Kingdoms) says that he is "ordered by heaven to live forever"; The other is that Zhang Shoujie quoted a Han book as "the life of heaven, the emperor Shou Chang"; Thirdly, Pei Songzhi found out eight words in Ying Shao's book Han Guan Yi, that is, "I am ordered by heaven to live a long and healthy life" (see also Ying Shao's Han Guan Yi Juan Xia Qing Sun Xingyan school-based, Sun Xingyan's note: see also the instrument decoration department of Beitang Shuchao and the ceremony department of Taiping Yulan); Fourth, "The Sixth Etiquette of Sui Shuzhi" says: There is a national seal, and white jade is it, which is four inches square, stung the animal button, handed in five tablets, and concealed the bird seal script. The text says, "By God's will, the emperor Shou Chang", all eight characters (there are other sayings, which will be recorded in detail below). Most of these are quoted from the lost works. Such confusion shows that when they (referring to Ying Shao, Wei Yao and an author of Han Dynasty) wrote books, they didn't always see the official seal. At least three people heard it from hearsay, and even the four were incorrect.
Because:
1. Li Xian quoted Cai Yong's Dictatorship in The History of Emperor Guangwudi, saying: "The six seals of the emperor are all jade to kill the tiger, and the words are' the emperor's seal',' the emperor's seal',' the emperor's seal',' the emperor's seal' and' the emperor's seal'. He also quoted "Yu Xi Pu" as saying: "Chuan Guo Xi was carved by Qin Shihuang at the beginning of the world, and its jade came from Lantian Mountain, written by Prime Minister Li Si, and its text said,' Being ordered by heaven, you can live forever'." There are many books called "The Jade Seal Spectrum" in the past dynasties. Whose hand did it come from? When Li Xiansheng was in the Tang Dynasty, what he saw was, of course, the Jade Seal Spectrum before him and before him. Han Shu Yi Wen Zhi does not contain this book, nor does Sui Shu Jing Ji Zhi. The Book of the New Tang Dynasty recorded a volume of Yu Xi Pu by Ji Monk Zhen. The Book of the Old Tang Dynasty also recorded a volume of Yu Xi Pu, a monk about Zhen. Xiang Feng privately thinks that the authors of these two books should be the same, but it is just like this in the process of passing money. The Jade Seal Spectrum is most likely written by the Tang Dynasty, and it may be this book that Li Xian saw (another book, The Official Seal, written by Yao Cha in the two Tang books). When it comes to the History of Song Dynasty, it becomes a record of "Cui Feng's Jade Seal Spectrum, which was rebuilt by Yan Shiyuan and polished by Song and Wei Dynasties". That is to say, the Book of the Imperial Seal that Li Xian saw may be lost again, and the feeling of "dead end" is everywhere. If the official seal comes from Lantian Mountain (Records of Geography of Hanshu), the beautiful jade comes from Lantian Mountain in the north of Beijing (now north of Xi 'an). Later, lantian jade recorded in some ancient books, such as Biography of consorts in the Later Han Dynasty, Xijing Fu by Zhang Heng, Notes on Water Classics and Records of Yuanhe Counties and Counties. Even in the Han Yuefu's Yu Lin Lang, we can see the sentence of Hu Ji's "lantian jade on her head and Qin Zhu behind her ears"), so how can the official seal be made of jade! Choi and Choi are from Chu! How can it come from Lantian Mountain in Guanzhong area?