Blue jade exorcism button “Seal of King Han”

[Blue jade exorcism button “seal of the king of Korea”]

Blue jade exorcism button “seal of the king of Korea”, Ming Dynasty, printed face 2.3 × 2.3 cm, 2.65 cm high. The old collection of the Qing Palace
Jade texture, exorcism button, seal script, white text, and the words “Seal of the King of Han” from the top right. The seal button is carved to ward off evil spirits, has a single horn and huge eyes, turns its head and looks down, sits on the ground with two feet in front, and leans down behind, taking advantage of the seal material
This seal was made when the Ming Dynasty entrusted the name of Chu and Han, or at the beginning of the Han Dynasty. The “King of Han” in the seal was originally the title of the king at the time of the Chu and Han Dynasties or at the beginning of the Han Dynasty. At that time, three people got the title. At first, Xiang Liang set up kings by name. Yan, Qi, Zhao and Wei had all set up kings, but Han fell behind. So he set up the son of Han as the king of Han. He wanted to pacify Han’s hometown, and then Xiang Yu killed him. In the era of war between Chu and Han, all the kings set up by Xiang Yu had their own names. With the war going from east to west, they were not based on stability. Liu Bang, the king of the Han Dynasty, decided to join the Three Qins and the Central Shaanxi, and attacked Chu in the east. So Xiang Yu again rejected the Han Dynasty with Zheng Chang, the king of the Wu Dynasty. In the second year of the Han Dynasty (205 BC), Liu Bang sent Sun Xin, the king of Han Xiang, to destroy Zheng Chang in Yangcheng, and called Han Wang Xin. In the third year (204 BC), the king of Han left Xingyang. Han Wangxin and Zhou Kuo guarded Xingyang and were defeated by Chu. Sun Xin surrendered to Chu for a time, and then fled to return to the Han Dynasty. The Han Dynasty still regarded him as the king of Han and ruled the world from the high ancestor. In December of the sixth year of King Han (201 BC), he moved to Taiyuan. At this time, the Huns risked to seize the south of the Yellow River with a strong force of 34 million cavalry. In the autumn of the seventh year (200 BC), the Huns marched to besiege Mayi, and at this time the Han court also sent troops to rescue the Huns. It was suspected that King Han Xin had a second intention in ordering peace with the Huns, which made people feel guilty. “Faith is afraid of punishment, because he and the Huns agreed to attack the Han Dynasty together, and counterattack the Huns with Mayi, and attack Taiyuan.” Gao Zu personally led the army to attack, broke the faith army in Tongyi, and escaped into the Hun tribe. The Han army entered the siege lightly and became “the siege of Pingcheng”. After that, the two sides negotiated a peace strike. In the eleventh year (196 BC), Xin and the Han army fought again and died.

“韩王之玺” 玉印钤本