The Historical Origin of He Shibi

He Shibi first saw China's work "Han Fei Zi and Shi Bi Thirteen" at the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty: Chu people and He Shibi found a beautiful jade wrapped in a rock in the mountains of the State of Chu and presented it to the then monarch Li, while the jade craftsman who worked in the Chu royal family lied that He Shibi only contributed a stone. So Li, the king of Chu, ordered his left foot to be cut off. After Li's death, he acceded to the throne, and Choi was presented to him. King Wu ordered jade workers to identify jade articles. The result of the appraisal was whether it was a stone or a contribution by Hebi. As a result, Hebi's right foot was cut off. Finally, Choi returned to Chushan, where she cried for three days and nights. The newly acceded king of Chu sent someone to ask what happened. He Shibi said, "I'm not sad because my foot was cut off, but Baoyu is regarded as a hard stone and a loyal minister, and that's what makes me sad." King Chu Wen sent craftsmen to remove the stone wrapped in jade, and then King Chu Wen saw the jade.

According to the Warring States policy, Heshibi has always been the national treasure of Chu. When the time came, Zhao Yang Yin, who attacked Wei Yougong, awarded it to Cui twice. Once when Zhao Yang gave a banquet to entertain guests, he took Cui out for the guests to visit. At this time, some guests suddenly booed and stole the food from the table. The janitor in Zhaoyang recognized Zhang Yi as the person who stole Cui. Zhaoyang released Zhang Yi after torture and interrogation. Zhang Yi retaliated against Chu after becoming the prime minister of Qin, but the whereabouts of He Shibi were unknown. Since then, and choi, through people's hands, came to Zhao. According to Records of the Historian, the owner of Heshibi was Zhao Huiwen, the monarch of Zhao State in the Warring States Period.

Return the jade to Zhao intact-return it to its original owner.

The King of Qin was a contemporary monarch of Qin State with Emperor Huiwen. In the first 283 years, he sent an envoy to Zhao State, hoping to exchange 65,438+05 cities for him. This is the origin of the idiom "priceless".

Zhao did not immediately agree to exchange Choi-hi. After deliberation, the Zhao government sent Lin Xiangru as a representative to take Choi-hi to Qin. After Lin Xiangru inquired about the king of Qin twice, he decided that Qin wanted to be backed by its powerful national strength and refused to cede the city to Zhao after obtaining the decree. So Lin Xiangru sent his deputy to put on casual clothes and took Cui back to Zhao from the path. Lin Xiangru himself returned to Zhao safely.

In the first 228 years, the State of Qin annexed the State of Zhao, and Heshibi was finally owned by the State of Qin. 22 1 years ago, the Qin Dynasty destroyed the six vassal states of the Zhou Dynasty and established the first centralized feudal dynasty in the history of China. As a symbol of the national prestige of the Qin Empire, Heshibi was carved into a national seal, which was engraved with eight characters of insects and birds written by Li Si, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, and was engraved on it by Yu Gongsun. Since then, she has become the seal of the emperor and a symbol of the emperor's theocracy. In the hundreds of years after the Qin Dynasty, it became one of the conditions for China to be recognized as an orthodox empire in history, even at the time of regime change. Since the Qin Dynasty, * * * has been circulating for 1000 years.