China's Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal Worth Several Cities on Elementary

Summary: China's Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal, whose imaginative itinerary impels it "intact to Zhao," is "Worth Several Cities" on Elementary Oct. 16, 2016.

Qin dynasty founder and unified China's first empero Qin Shi Huang (Feb. 18, 259-Sep. 10, 210 BCE) designated a special jade disc as the imperial seal of unified China; illustration of Return the Jade Intact to the State of Zhao in Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru in Historical Records: ancient-origins @ancientorigins, via Twitter Dec. 19, 2016

The heirloom seal of the realm appears as the Imperial Jade Seal of China on the Worth Several Cities episode for the Columbia Broadcasting System procedural drama series Elementary Oct. 16, 2016.

Director Guy Ferland and writers Robert Doherty, Kelly Wheeler and Robert Hewitt Wolfe broach the Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal in Season 5's second episode, 98th overall. Sherlock Holmes (Jonny Lee Miller) and Halcon Zelaya (Jon Huertas), New York branch head of Mara Tres, collaborate to catch a drug dealer and a thief. Crystal methamphetamine drops for Halcon's drug-smuggler Reymundo Torres disguises the Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal of the Realm's delivery by North Korean ship Captain Pak (Raymond Ma).

Sherlock encounters an ancient message in Chinese characters, "Receive the Mandate of Heaven, and with it longevity and prosperity," in Torres's home in Woodbury, Long Island.

Sherlock figures out that "prints, after a fashion" that he found atop Torres's desk fit as the carved message on the bottom of a "green rock."

Sherlock and Torres's housemate respectively gauge the "green rock" as fortified by "a square base, about four or five inches, each side" and "snakes on top." Sherlock hails what the ambushed Salvadorian smuggler's metal box held as "the single most valuable missing object in human history, the Imperial Jade Seal of China." He identifies the "jade block, four inches square, topped by intertwined dragons" as the seal even though "no one's seen the thing in over 1,000 years."

History juggles dates between 907 and 1368 for what Sherlock judges as the 1,000-plus-year unsolved mystery of the missing Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal of the Realm.

The Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal perhaps knows almost 1,800 years under the Chinese name Chuán guó xī and 470 years before that as "He's jade stone."

Han Fei (280 B.C.?-233 B.C.) listed Bian He as losing left and right feet to King Wu (died 690 B.C.) and King Wên (died 677 B.C.). The author of Han Feizi ("Master Han Fei") and philosopher from Han State east and north of Chu mentioned amputation as punishment for "an ordinary stone." King Chêng (died 626 B.C.) noted the mistake in "the calling a precious gem an ordinary stone and for their dubbing an honest man a liar."

Theft from Chu occasioned possession through purchase by Zhao, state north of Wei and Han, until the end of the Warring States period (481 B.C.?-221 B.C.).

Qin Shi Huang (Feb. 18, 259 B.C.-Sep. 10, 210 B.C.) possessed the jade for which King Zhaoxiang (died 250 B.C.) of Qin previously promised 15 cities.

Victory over the Chu, Han, Qi, Wei, Yan and Zhao states qualified unified China's first emperor for He's jade disc as an Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal. Qin Shi Huang recruited Chancellor Li Si (died 208 B.C.) for the words that Sun Shou recorded on the bottom of the Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal. The jade survived as Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal of the Qin (221-206 B.C.), Han (202 B.C.-220), Wei (220-266), Ji (226-420), Sui  (581-618) and Tang (618-907) Dynasties.

Who took the Imperial Jade Heirloom Seal, "valued at multiple cities," away from, not "intact to Zhao," during the turbulent Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms (907-960)?

Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller) kidnapping by a gang leads to discovery of the long-lost Imperial Jade Seal of China in CBS Elementary tv series Worth Several Cities (season 5 episode 2): Elementary @ElementaryCBS, via Facebook Oct. 11, 2016

Acknowledgment

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Qin dynasty founder and unified China's first empero Qin Shi Huang (Feb. 18, 259-Sep. 10, 210 BCE) designated a special jade disc as the imperial seal of unified China; illustration of Return the Jade Intact to the State of Zhao in Biographies of Lian Po and Lin Xiangru in Historical Records: ancient-origins @ancientorigins, via Twitter Dec. 19, 2016, @ https://twitter.com/ancientorigins/status/810860534836981762

Sherlock Holmes' (Jonny Lee Miller) kidnapping by a gang leads to discovery of the long-lost Imperial Jade Seal of China in CBS Elementary tv series Worth Several Cities (season 5 episode 2): Elementary @ElementaryCBS via Facebook Oct. 11, 2016, @ https://www.facebook.com/ElementaryCBS/photos/a.151627898295663.14686.151013691690417/600084106783371/

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