传国玉玺 / Heirloom Imperial Seal

传国玉玺 / Heirloom Imperial Seal enters the wiki through Hanji 1001 as one of the symbols 袁术 uses to encourage his imperial ambition. The episode says Yuan Shu hears that 孙坚 has the seal, detains Sun Jian’s wife, and forces the object into his own hands.

The source’s important point is negative. The seal can make Yuan Shu’s claim feel materially and ritually supported, but it cannot supply the virtue, recognized title order, or people-support that 阎象 and 张承 say he lacks. The object therefore becomes a concrete case for 名器合法性: symbols matter, but they become dangerous when treated as substitutes for accepted legitimacy.

Connections

• 袁术 - claimant who uses the seal as part of his self-justifying title logic.
• 孙坚 - late-Han figure whose household is coerced in the source’s account of how Yuan Shu obtains the seal.
• 名器合法性, 帝国符号标准化, and 天命合法性 - adjacent symbolic and legitimacy frames.
• 阴阳五行政治理论 and 谶纬政治 - other sign systems Yuan Shu combines with the seal in Hanji 1001.