The eight-foot pike is a necklace made of emerald, representing the lush islands of Japan. It is composed of irregular tadpole-shaped pearls and some oval pearls in series. 11In the naval battle of Tanzhe Temple in 85, Emperor Ande buried it at the bottom of the sea, and its whereabouts were unknown.
The mirror of God is a bronze mirror symbolizing wisdom, which was the product of the first century A.D. and was placed in the dome temple of Ise Shrine. The shrine is located on a peninsula overlooking the sea. It is said that the first emperor of Japan grew up on this island. If someone can look at this mirror, he can vaguely see God's face, as if connected with her through a piece of glass. However, in 1960, 1005 and 1040, after three fires in the shrine, the mirror was completely burned.
Cao Zhijian is a sword symbolizing strength and power, and it is also the longest preserved of the three cultural relics. It was well preserved in the Hotan shrine in Nagoya until it was destroyed by a bomb dropped by an American B-29 plane during World War II.
At this point, all three artifacts have been lost. At present, three cultural relics used in Japan are replicas.
The origin is estimated to be imported from China.
In the Han Dynasty, Japanese began to have some contacts with China, and some lords crossed the ocean to China to pay tribute to Emperor China. The emperor of China naturally reciprocated, including iron swords and bronze mirrors. For Japan, the iron sword, which is harder than the bronze sword, has become a rather advanced new thing. Show it off when you return to Japan. Japanese aristocrats who don't have these things are jealous and want to find something to decorate their faces. So the sword and mirror gradually became the symbol of power in Japanese aristocratic culture.
Some swords and mirrors have been handed down from generation to generation as family heirlooms, and of course they have gradually been endowed with magical colors. Later, in response to the popularization of Shinto, sword and mirror became the representatives of Japanese power.
Therefore, the jade hook used for sacrifice, together with the sword and mirror, has become the three supreme wonders of Japan, representing the kingship of Japan.
However, some people say that the only tokens of imperial power alternation are sword and seal.
Sword, that is, the sky is overcast with clouds, is also called snake sword (people who need help kill the big snake with ten fists/hold the sword and get the sword from the snake's tail). Because there is a cloud coiled around the snake's head, it is named from Yun Jie, and "Tian" is an honorific. Then in ancient books, Xu Zuo was trapped in a wildfire and cut grass with this sword to escape. Therefore,
Therefore, the origin of the sword is no problem. As for the whereabouts, Hotan shrine said it was one, and Andrew jumped into the sea was another. Some people say that the Silla monk stole it, but it's gone anyway.
The problem lies in the latter two things, namely, the Eight Zhi Mirror and the Eight Zhi Qiong Gouyu. In mythology, these two things each represent a mirror and a necklace. However, some scholars in modern times pointed out that these two things are actually the same thing, just two sides of things. It is called mirror in the yang and jade in the yin (in ancient Chinese, ruler and straight are interchangeable, both of which are units of length, and eight feet is almost equivalent to 1.4 meters now).
The whereabouts of these two things were acquired by Yuan Yijing in the battle of Tanzhe Temple, and were hidden by Pingjia in advance, but they were gone anyway.
Now their replicas (three in total) are placed between the swords and shadows in the palace as a symbol of the inheritance of the emperor's imperial power.