What are the eight words engraved on the national decree?
At the end of the Western Han Dynasty, when Wang Mang usurped the throne, Wang Mang asked Wang Zhengjun (Wang Mang's aunt) for the official seal, but Wang refused to give it and cursed Wang Mang. Finally, he was forced to drop the official seal and broke a corner. Later, Wang Mang set a corner with gold and became the later decree.
In the first year of Song Jingkang (A.D. 1 126), the Jin army broke the capital of song dynasty, Qin Hui was taken captive, and the "national seal" was taken captive by the State of Jin, and then disappeared.
The extended information was transmitted to the imperial seal, which was carved by Li Sifeng, the prime minister of Qin Dynasty, on the orders of the first emperor, and was the evidence of the orthodox emperor of China.
"In the nineteenth year of the King of Qin (the first 228 years), Qin defeated Zhao, and the world was one. After the unification of the world, Ying Zheng proclaimed himself, and ordered Lisi to carve the imperial seal with a small seal, and the front side was engraved with the words "Ordered by heaven? Jade worker Sun Shou carved eight insect and bird seal characters of Changshou Yongchang on it. This imperial seal is a symbol of the orthodox emperor of China.
After the Qin dynasty, emperors of all dynasties took this seal as a symbol and regarded it as a treasure and a heavy weapon of the country. If you get it, it means that you are "destined to return". If you lose it, it means that your luck has run out. Anyone who ascended the throne without this seal was ridiculed as "Bai Di" and despised by the world as unconfident.
People who wanted to seek the position of emperor in the past dynasties fought for power and profit, which led to the frequent change of the national seal. It has been in Chixian County, China for more than two thousand years, flickering and finally disappearing, which makes people sigh that there is no trace so far.
During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there was a clamor for "state decrees", but they were all copied. For example, during the reign of Emperor Xiaozong of the Ming Dynasty, someone once presented the so-called "jade seal", which was considered as a fake by Emperor Xiaozong and was not used.
Huang Taiji destroyed Li Dan Khan in Mongolia, and his descendants gave the Yuan Dynasty the so-called "official seal" engraved with "Emperor Seal". By the early years of the Qing Dynasty, there were thirty-nine imperial seals in the Forbidden City, one of which was the "national seal" of Huang Taiji. During the Qianlong period, Emperor Gaozong of the Qing Dynasty did some textual research and found it to be a fake. However, there is no problem of taking falsehood seriously and mending it after it is too late. Later, in the late Qing Dynasty, this imperial seal was stored in the Imperial Palace in Shenyang and disappeared.
Later, when the Yellow River was built, a jade seal was obtained and presented to Emperor Qianlong, which was verified to be false.
After the founding of the Republic of China, the Qing court abdicated, but according to preferential conditions, it still occupied the Forbidden City, and was called a loner. It was not until the thirteenth year of the Republic of China (AD 1924) 1 1 that the last emperor Puyi was expelled from the palace by Feng Yuxiang, and this "imperial decree" disappeared again. At that time, Lu and others, the general of Feng Department, had recourse to this gold-inlaid decree, and there is still no following.
At this point, the imperial seal disappeared from the world and the dynasty ended, pushing China into the new century. After more than two thousand years of ups and downs and confusion, the number "Guo Chuan Yu Xi" disappeared and finally disappeared in the long river of history.
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