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What is engraved on the country's imperial seal?
Words engraved on national laws and regulations are destined to live forever.

"Under the orders of Heaven, Yongchang" means that when the emperor is ordered by Heaven, the country will live long and prosper forever. Guo Chuan Yu Xi, referred to as "Guo Chuan Xi", is the emperor's national seal. Its Fiona Fang is four inches, and it has five dragons in New Zealand. On the front, there are eight characters engraved with "Long live, ordered by heaven" as a token of "imperial power granted by heaven, orthodox and legal". It is said that "in the nineteenth year of the King of Qin, Qin defeated Zhao and won this honor.

After the unification of the world, Ying Zheng claimed to be the first emperor, and ordered Li Si to carve the imperial seal with a small seal. On the front, there are eight seals of insects and birds, carved by Yu Gongsun Shou. 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.

Sources of national legal materials:

1, lantian jade

According to Yuan Gui of Bookstore and Ming Di Bao in Song Dynasty, the imperial seal of Qin Shihuang was made of lantian jade.

2, and choi

Folklores and stone walls are famous jewels in history, which have been regarded as "priceless" treasures by the world for hundreds of years. In the Spring and Autumn Period, Bian He, a Chu, said that Jingshan saw a phoenix perched on the bluestone board in the mountain. According to the saying that "the phoenix does not fall in the land without treasure", he concluded that there is treasure on the mountain. After careful searching, he finally found a piece of jade in the mountains. Bian He presented this treasure to Li, the king of Chu. In order to reward Bian He's loyalty, Meiyu was named "He Shen Jade", which is the legendary He Shen Jade in later generations.