For modern people, harmony is a mystery and a legend. In more than 2,000 years of historical documents, there are many records and legends about the Guanshi Pagoda, and there are also many poets and poets chanting.
The earliest records about He Shibi can be found in books such as (Han Feizi) and "New Preface", and the plot is roughly the opposite. According to legend, during the Spring and Autumn Period, there was a jade carving expert named Bian He in the State of Chu. He got a rough piece of jade in Jingshan. Bian He took a rough piece of jade to see Chu Li Tu and ordered Yu Ding to have a look. The jade worker said it was just a stone. Li was furious and cut off Bian He's left foot for deceiving the monarch. After the death of King Li of Qi, King Wu ascended the throne, and Bian He once again held the jade to see King Wu, who ordered the jade worker to see it. The jade worker still said that it was just a stone, so Bian He lost his right foot. King Wu died and King Wen acceded to the throne. Bian He cried at his feet for two days and two nights, holding the rough jade, and continued to cry blood after crying dry. When King Wen learned this, he sent someone to ask why. Bian He said: I am not crying that my feet have been cut off, but crying that Baoyu is treated as a stone, and loyal ministers are treated as bullies and innocent people are humiliated. Therefore, King Wen ordered people to cut open this rare rough jade and named it the Heshi wall.
After the appearance of He Shibi, she became a national treasure of Chu State and never easily attracted attention. Later, the State of Chu proposed to him and presented him to the State of Zhao. In 283 BC, the State of Qin heard that the State of Zhao had He Shibi and offered to exchange 15 cities. Because Zhao was weak, Zhao did not dare to neglect, but he was reluctant to give up, so he sent resourceful Lin Xiangru to serve Qin. Lin Xiangru knew there was fraud and secretly sent the wall back to Zhao. This matter is recorded in detail in Sima Qian's Historical Records.
But later, and choi is still owned by the state of Qin. As for when and how it was owned by Qin, there is no record in history. In the tenth year of the King of Qin (237 BC), Li Si mentioned in the book "Persuasion and Expulsion": "Now your Majesty has given Kunshan a jade as a treasure of harmony." "Sui Hebao" refers to "Sui Houzhu" and "Heshibi", two famous treasures at that time. It is very likely that Zhao gave the wall of harmony to Qin because he was afraid of the strength of Qin.
Since then, there have been many records about He Shibi, and most of them believe in the records of Han Feizi, Xin Xu and other books. For example, Fu Xian's Jade Symbol in the Western Jin Dynasty said, "If you dive into the wild and ignore it, everyone will regard it as a stone and know it by yourself." There are many records about He Shibi in Tang poetry. The great poet Li Bai's "Antique" said in the thirty-sixth year that "it is suspicious to bring jade into Chu." The poem "the good treasure is abandoned at last, and it is futile to offer the king three times".
According to Records of the Historian, the king of Qin ruled for nine years, and he made a decree. After Liu Bang conquered the State of Qin, Zi Ying presented Liu Bang with the imperial seal, which became a "national legend". By the end of the Han Dynasty, Dong Zhuo's rebellion, the imperial seal had fallen into the hands of Sun Jian and Yuan Shu, and then spread to Wei and Jin Dynasties. During the period of Five Lakes and Sixteen Countries, it was once a powerful country, which was later inherited by the Southern Dynasties. After the Sui Dynasty destroyed Chen, the imperial seal was brought from Chen to Turkic, and was returned to the Tang Dynasty in the fourth year of Emperor Taizong's Zhenguan (AD 630). During the Five Dynasties, it was destroyed, and the decree was unknown. In the records after the Six Dynasties, most people think that the jade seal used by Qin Shihuang was transformed from the jade.
After the Qing Dynasty, people began to doubt the authenticity of He Shibi. In Bian He's theory of offering jade, Emperor Qianlong thought it was only an allegory to Han Feizi.